Past Events

  • Scholarship and Fellowship Outreach
    Over 40 CU Law students joined The Getches-Wilkinson Center on Thursday, October 26th for a delicious lunch and to hear from current GWC Scholar and Fellows. Information on the various scholarships and fellowships and instructions on how to apply
  • Organizing Team
    On Tuesday, October 24th the Environmental Law Society (ELS), Getches-Wilkinson Center, and Career Development Office (CDO) co-hosted an Environmental Law Networking Happy Hour for current students and lawyers working in the environmental law space
  • Public Lands Panel
    CU Law is one of six leading institutions to host the Wyss Foundation Scholars Program which supports the graduate-level education of emerging leaders in U.S. land conservation by providing scholarships, mentorship, and community. Early this
  • 43rd Annual Colorado Law Conference on Natural Resources
    Crisis on the Colorado River: From Short-Term Solutions to Long-Term SustainabilityThursday, June 8 and Friday, June 9, 2023 Hosted by the Getches-Wilkinson Center and Water & Tribes InitiativeThe Colorado River is in crisis. Rapid declines in
  • Fawn R. Sharp
    Mobilizing the Global Community on Climate Change: An Indigenous Leadership PerspectiveFawn R. Sharp QuinaultPresident, National Congress of American IndiansThursday, October 13, 2022 6:00 p.m. Wolf Law Building, Wittemyer
  • Water Image
    Thursday, June 16 and Friday, June 172026 May Be Too Late: Hard Conversations About Really Complicated IssuesThere is no debate – demands for water across the Colorado River Basin exceed the shrinking supply. Chronic drought, record heat, increasing
  • Our Common Ground
    John Leshy, Author Distinguished Professor of Law University of California, Hastings College of LawThe little-known story of how the U.S. government came to hold nearly one-third of the nation’s land and manage it primarily for recreation, education
  • Audrey Zibelman
    Tapestry, X’s Moonshot for the Electric Grid Audrey Zibelman Vice President, X’s Electric Grid MoonshotNations are finally committing to greenhouse gas emission reduction targets that could limit global warming. However, technical obstacles to the
  • GWC
    Equity in the Colorado River Basin: How to Sustainably Manage a Shrinking ResourceThursday, September 30 and Friday, October 1Simply put – demands for water in the Colorado River Basin exceed supply.  Chronic drought, record heat, and rampant
  • Colorado River
    Thursday, September 30 and Friday, October 1Equity in the Colorado River Basin: How to Sustainably Manage a Shrinking ResourceSimply put – demands for water in the Colorado River Basin exceed supply.  Chronic drought, record heat, and rampant
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