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Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens will present the inaugural Stevens Lecture, a new series of talks named for him, at the University of Colorado Law School at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 22.

The Â鶹¹ÙÍø will celebrate Constitution Day with campus events including a student journalism panel and the launch of a new program at the University of Colorado Law School that will send CU law students to high school classrooms throughout the state to discuss the First Amendment.

Longtime University of Colorado Law School Dean David Getches, who had stepped down on June 30 in order to return to the school's faculty, died today. He was 68.

The Â鶹¹ÙÍø today announced the appointment of Philip J. Weiser, senior adviser for technology and innovation to the National Economic Council at the White House, as dean of the University of Colorado Law School. CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø Provost Russell L. Moore said Weiser will begin his duties as dean on July 1, 2011.

Graduate programs at the Â鶹¹ÙÍø continue to earn national prominence based on the latest annual rankings from U.S. News & World Report. CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø schools and programs garnered 25 mentions in the 2012 edition of Best Graduate Schools, including five ranked in the top 10 of their fields.

The University of Colorado Law School's Juvenile and Family Law Program will take a group of 15 students to India for a hands-on clinical application of the family law curriculum.

Four finalists have been named for the position of dean at the Â鶹¹ÙÍø Law School, according to Jim Williams, dean of the University Libraries and chair of the search committee.

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University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø law professors Scott Moss and Paul Campos can comment on President Obama's nomination of U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the nation's 112th U.S. Supreme Court justice.

Jeff Mitton, professor and chair of CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø's ecology and evolutionary biology department, is available to talk about the repercussions of oil spills. Mitton was on sabbatical in 1979-1980 at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., where he studied a 1969 oil spill that seeped into the Sippewissett Marsh.