Melanie Kay joined the University of Colorado Law School faculty in 2015. She teaches courses on legal ethics, professional responsibility, and ethical organizational and professional culture. She directs the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Collegiate Program at Colorado Law, which helps law students develop strong ethical, professional identities through a variety of programming and hands-on opportunities. Professor Kay also co-directs Colorado Law’s Master of Studies in Law in Ethics and Compliance program.
Professor Kay joined the Colorado Law faculty after nearly ten years of litigation experience. She practiced environmental law with the non-profit, public interest law firm Earthjustice in Denver, Colorado, and has also practiced general civil litigation at Latham & Watkins in San Francisco, California and Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell in Denver, Colorado. Immediately after law school, she clerked on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for the Honorable Procter Hug, Jr. in Reno, Nevada. Professor Kay earned her JD from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, her MS in Environmental Geochemistry from the University of Montana, and her AB in Earth Sciences from Dartmouth College.
