New Law School Building at the University of Colorado

By the late 1990s, Colorado Law had outgrown its current building. In 1997 law students voted to tax themselves with a $1,000 per year tuition differential to help finance the building for this Boulder college, but in 2001 the State of Colorado General Assembly rescinded its earmarked funds from the project. Facing the risk of accreditation loss, law students worked with campus leaders and successfully passed a $400 per year fee on all Boulder students to fund capital construction on the Wolf Law Building and three other campus projects. The Wolf Law Building was dedicated on September 8, 2006, by United States Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer. The dedication ceremony represented the end of a long and creative funding process for a public law school.

In addition to student funds, over $13 million in private gifts were donated to support the construction of the new law building for this university in Colorado. The Wolf family, in honor of Leon and Dora Wolf, were especially generous in their contribution to the new building that now bears the Wolf family name.

This college in Colorado is proud of the beautiful new building for numerous reasons. A decade in the planning and construction, the building has been financed by alumni, friends, law firms, and 60% by students. In addition, this technologically advanced facility was constructed to LEED building certification for the Colorado university.

This Boulder university is one of the professional graduate schools within the University of Colorado System. It is a public law school, with more than 500 students attending and working toward a Juris Doctor or Master of Law. The Wolf Law Building located is sited on the south side of the University of Colorado at Boulder campus. The law school houses the William A. Wise Law Library, which is a regional archive for federal government materials and is open to the public.

This college in Colorado consistently ranks as a top law school in U.S. News & World Report rankings. This Colorado university is renowned for its influence in the 12-state Rocky Mountain region and for the strength of its environmental law program.

The University of Colorado at Boulder is a public research university. This Colorado university is also known as CU-Boulder and CU. Considered a Public Ivy, it is the flagship university of the University of Colorado system and was founded five months before Colorado was admitted to the union in 1876. This Boulder university's colors are officially silver and gold; however, traditional CU items utilize the black and gold color scheme.

Six Nobel Laureates, seven MacArthur Fellows, and 17 astronauts have been affiliated with this Colorado university as students, researchers, or faculty members in its history. The university received nearly $340 million in sponsored research in 2009 to fund programs like the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, JILA, and National Institute of Standards and Technology's NIST-F1 atomic clock.

Colorado Buffaloes competed in nine intercollegiate sports in the NCAA Division I Big 12 Conference. On June 10, 2010, it was announced that they would be joining the Pacific-10 Conference. The Buffaloes have won 23 NCAA championships: 17 in skiing, five total in men's and women's cross country, and one in football.

The city of Boulder in Colorado is famous for its status as one of the most liberal cities in Colorado, its colorful Western history, and being a choice destination for Hippies in the late 1960s. This city in Colorado is also well-known for being home to the University of Colorado, the state's largest university.