Colorado Law names new Professorships, Dean’s Scholars Award Recipients

Colorado Law is thrilled to announce our newest Professorships, along with the three recipients of the Dean’s Scholar Awards. These individuals already bring their valuable expertise, leadership, and scholarship to our faculty, and we look forward to their continued impact. Please join us in extending our sincerest congratulations to them.������

Alexia Brunet Marks��

Dean’s Scholar Award��

Alexia Brunet Marks is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School. Professor Brunet Marks is a globally recognized food law scholar who researches the connections between our prevailing food system and its effects on food safety, nutrition, agricultural labor and soil health. She teaches Food Law and Policy, Torts, International Business Transactions and International Trade Law. ��Her recent work on regenerative agriculture was selected for the 2025 Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review. She has published in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, the Harvard Journal on Regulation, and the North Carolina Law Review, and has authored several book chapters.��

“I am deeply honored and humbled to receive this prestigious research award,” said Brunet Marks. “It brings me great joy to contribute to this talented research faculty and to make meaningful impacts in the communities that I serve.”��

Maryam Jamshidi��

Dean’s Scholar Award��

Maryam Jamshidi is an Associate Professor of Law who teaches and writes in the areas of national security law, public international law, the law of foreign relations, and tort law. In particular, her scholarship focuses on the relationship between the private sphere and national security, as well as the law of foreign relations. In exploring these dynamics, Professor Jamshidi's work draws on political and critical theory, as well as sociology. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Cornell Law Review, the Washington University Law Review, the Harvard National Security Journal, amongst others. She also regularly publishes in popular media outlets.��

"I’m honored to be selected as a Dean’s Scholar,” Jamshidi shared.�� “Colorado Law has a venerable history of excellent and innovative legal scholarship. I hope to contribute to that legacy over the period of my award and beyond."��

Scott Skinner-Thompson��

Dean’s Scholar Award��

Scott's Skinner-Thompson's research and teaching interests are in constitutional law, civil rights, and privacy law, with a particular focus on LGBTQ+ and HIV issues. His current work focuses on the legal construction of gender and legal protections for transgender people, including his article, , a 2024 recipient of a Dukeminier Award for best LGBTQ law review articles. His other has been published in the Georgetown Law Journal, Michigan Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, UC Davis Law Review, Yale Law Journal Forum, and Columbia Law Review Online, and he served as editor of and contributing author to AIDS and the Law (Wolters Kluwer, 5th ed., 2016; 6th ed., 2020). His shorter work has appeared in Slate, Salon, The New Republic, and elsewhere.��

Skinner-Thompson shared: “I’m truly moved to receive this recognition and look forward to continuing to work with my tremendous colleagues to produce cutting-edge legal scholarship that, hopefully, improves people’s daily lives.”����

Wadie Said��

Nicholas Rosenbaum Professorship��

Wadie Said is a professor of law whose scholarship analyzes the challenges inherent in adjudicating issues that touch on foreign policy, national security, and criminal law more broadly. His most recent work has appeared in the Wisconsin Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, and the South Carolina Law Review, among others. He is the author of Crimes of Terror (Oxford University Press 2015, paperback 2018), a comprehensive study of the modern terrorism prosecution, covering such topics as coercive interrogation, the use of informants, and the ban on providing material support to designated foreign terrorist organizations. He is currently at work on a book on the role of the Palestinian question in shaping American law, which is forthcoming from Princeton University Press. He teaches courses in criminal law, criminal procedure, immigration law, and seminars in international human rights, counterterrorism, and advanced criminal justice.��

“It is a great honor to have been awarded the Nicholas Rosenbaum Professorship, especially as its stated mission is to recognize individuals for their scholarship, and also given the many distinguished holders of this chair in the past,” Said said. “My goal is to attempt to live up to this impressive and prominent legacy by producing scholarly work commensurate with the chair’s prominence.”��

Jennifer Hendricks��

Henry S. and Jean Naylor Lindsley Memorial Professorship��

Jennifer Hendricks joined the CU faculty in 2012, teaching family law and civil procedure. She previously taught at the University of Tennessee College of Law. Her research interests include sex equality and sex differences, constitutional family law, equality in sports, and relational feminist theory. Professor Hendricks studied mathematics and women's studies at Swarthmore College and law at Harvard University. She then practiced plaintiffs' trial and appellate litigation in Montana, where she specialized in constitutional, employment, and discrimination cases.��

“I’m grateful to hold the Lindsley professorship, and I’m looking forward to asking our research librarians to help me find out about the lives of Henry and Jean Lindsley and the legacy they left to the law school,” Hendricks said. “For me, this professorship marks a shift in my research agenda from the law of pregnancy and motherhood to whether and how social/legal institutions (like families, juries, and universities) can promote democracy and serve as havens for value systems other than neoliberal selfishness.”��

Margot Kaminski��

Moses Lasky Professorship��

Margot Kaminski's work specializes in the law of new technologies, focusing on information governance, privacy, and freedom of expression. Recently, her work has focused on AI Law; she is currently drafting a leading co-authored casebook in the field. In 2018, Professor Kaminski conducted research on comparative data privacy law as a recipient of the Fulbright-Schuman Innovation Grant. In 2024, she conducted research on comparative AI Law at the European University Institute (EUI) as a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow and recipient of a 2024 Fulbright-Schuman Grant. She is a 2024-25 Faculty Associate of the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University and an Affiliated Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.��

"It's a true honor to be awarded the Moses Lasky Professorship, and a responsibility I don't take lightly,” Kaminski said. “Lasky was one of our most distinguished alumni, who combined high intellectual achievement with a dedication to civic involvement and public service. I understand and value this legacy, and am grateful for the recognition and support for my ongoing work."��

Harry Surden����

Hatfield Professorship��

Harry Surden’s��research focuses on the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and law. Recognized as a leading scholar in this field, Professor Surden is known for originating the concept of "computable contracts" and for his widely-cited articles on topics such as AI Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, AI ethics and loyalty, computable law, machine learning and law, autonomous systems, as well as related work on patent law, copyright law, and information privacy law.��

“I’m honored to be named the Hatfield Professor of Law,” Surden said. “This recognition is especially meaningful as it echoes the incredible career of Dale Hatfield, a pioneer in telecommunications and technology policy, and also supports my own ongoing research at the intersection of law, technology, and public policy."��