Judge John L. Kane has been a United States District Judge since 1977, and became a Senior United States District Judge in 1988.  He received his B.A. in English Literature from the University of Colorado (Boulder) in 1958 and his law degree from the University of Denver in 1961.  He received an honorary LL.D. from the University of Denver in 1997.  Judge Kane has taught at graduate and undergraduate levels in both law and liberal arts at the University of Denver, and has instructed at Metropolitan State College in Denver.  In 2004, he taught a course in Philosophy of Law at the University of Colorado Denver. Additionally, he has taught at the University of Colorado School of Law and was a visiting lecturer at Trinity College/Dublin.  He has written numerous articles published in legal journals and authored chapters in books and monographs on legal history.

Judge Kane served in the Peace Corps from 1967 to 1969, first in Calcutta, India and then in Turkey.  Before that, he served as Colorado’s first Public Defender and founded the state’s first racially integrated law office in 1963 with the late Irving P. Andrews.  He has received numerous awards in his fields of academics and law.  Since becoming a judge he has consulted on behalf of the State Department and the U.S. Information Agency in many foreign countries on human rights and constitutional issues.  On behalf of the State Department he has been a delegate to parliamentary conferences on various legal and judicial subjects in Spain, Tunisia, Albania, Moldova and Mongolia.

This event is free and open to Law School students, faculty, and staff.  Lunch will be provided.