research overview
- Professor Collins' research interests are American Indian law, state and local government law, constitutional law, regulation of marijuana and alcohol, religious freedom, and property law.
- Contact Info
Collins, Richard
Positions
- Professor Emerita/Emeritus, School of Law
Research Areas
Research
keywords
- state and local government law, law and religion, property law, American Indian law
Publications
selected publications
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book
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chapter
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journal article
- To Sue and Be Sued: Capacity and Immunity of American Indian Nations. Creighton Law Review. 391-424. 2018
- NEVER CONSTRUED TO THEIR PREJUDICE: IN HONOR OF DAVID GETCHES.. University of Colorado law review. University of Colorado (Boulder campus). School of Law. 1-57. 2013
- PROPAGANDA FOR WAR AND TRANSPARENCY. Denver University law review. 819-832. 2010
- TELLURIDE'S TALE OF EMINENT DOMAIN, HOME RULE, AND RETROACTIVITY. Denver University law review. 1433-1457. 2009
- The Colorado Constitution in the New Century.. University of Colorado law review. University of Colorado (Boulder campus). School of Law. 1265-1335. 2007
- Foreword [Horowitz, Churchill, Columbia—What Next for Academic Freedom?].. University of Colorado law review. University of Colorado (Boulder campus). School of Law. 841-842. 2006
- Petitioner's Brief [Martinez v. Santa Clara Pueblo].. Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy. 67-78. 2004
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Western justice - Byron White - Tributes.
Yale Law Journal.
975-982.
2003
- How democratic are initiatives?. University of Colorado law review. University of Colorado (Boulder campus). School of Law. 983-1003. 2001
- Nineteenth-century orthodoxy.. University of Colorado law review. University of Colorado (Boulder campus). School of Law. 1157-1167. 1999
- Expert medical testimony: is there an answer to “not only relevant, but reliable”? /. Defense counsel journal / International Association of Defense Counsel. 384-390. 1999
- Race and criminal justice.. University of Colorado law review. University of Colorado (Boulder campus). School of Law. 933-938. 1997
- Alienation of conservation easements. Denver University law review. 1103-1106. 1996
- Structuring the ballot initiative: procedures that do and don't work /. University of Colorado law review. University of Colorado (Boulder campus). School of Law. 47-127. 1995
- Initiative enigmas.. University of Colorado law review. University of Colorado (Boulder campus). School of Law. 807-814. 1994
- Justice Scalia and the elusive idea of discrimination against interstate commerce.. New Mexico Law Review. 555-583. 1990
- Indian consent to American government.. Arizona law review. 365-387. 1989
- ECONOMIC UNION AS A CONSTITUTIONAL VALUE. New York University law review (1950). 43-129. 1988
- American Indians and the bicentennial.. Colorado lawyer. 1579. 1987
- INDIAN RESERVATION WATER RIGHTS. Journal of the American Water Works Association. 48-54. 1986
- FUNDAMENTALS OF MODERN APPELLATE ADVOCACY - LAW-SCHOOL AND MOOT COURT EDITION - MARTINEAU,RJ. Journal of Legal Education. 438-440. 1986
- The future course of the Winters {Winters v. United States, 207 U.S. 564} doctrine.. University of Colorado law review. University of Colorado (Boulder campus). School of Law. 481-494. 1985
- Indian allotment water rights.. Land and water law review. 421-457. 1985
- IMPLIED LIMITATIONS ON THE JURISDICTION OF INDIAN TRIBES. Washington law review (Seattle, Wash. : 1962). 479-529. 1979
Teaching
courses taught
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LAWS 5624 - Property
Primary Instructor - Spring 2018
Topics include personal property, estates and interests in land, landlord-tenant, basic land conveyancing, and private land use controls. -
LAWS 6005 - Constitutional Law
Primary Instructor - Spring 2020
Studies constitutional structure: judicial review, federalism, separation of powers; and constitutional rights of due process and equal protection. -
LAWS 7255 - Local Government
Primary Instructor - Fall 2018 / Fall 2020
Studies state legislative and judicial control of the activities, powers and duties of local governmental units, including home-rule cities and counties, and some problems of federal, state, and local constitutional and statutory limitations on governmental powers when exercised by local governmental units (e.g., the powers to regulate private activities, tax, spend, borrow money and condemn private property for public uses). -
LAWS 7718 - The Regulation of Marijuana
Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Spring 2020
Covers three distinct but interwoven topics: substantive law governing marijuana, policy rationales behind and outcomes produced by different approaches to regulating the drug and the legal authority to regulate the drug. Prepares one to handle legal issues that arise in practice, but also to provide informed counsel on proposed and future reforms to law. -
LAWS 7725 - American Indian Law I
Primary Instructor - Fall 2018 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2021
Investigates the federal statutory, decisional and constitutional law that bears upon American Indians, tribal governments and Indian reservation transactions.
Background
education and training
- LL.B., Harvard University 1966
- B.A., Yale University 1960