Publications - Tom Romero
Articles and Essays
A RPL in Time: A Brown Buffalo’s Observations on the On-Going Struggle of Civic and Racial Nationalism in Higher Education – Circa 2023, 101 DENVER LAW REVIEW 497 (2024)
Embedding Racial Justice in the Work of Environmental Non-Profits (with Patience Crowder), 22 SEATTLE JOURNAL OF SOCIAL JUSTICE 803 (2024)
The Color of Equity: Observations of a Brown Buffalo on Indigenous Water Rights, Japanese Internment, and the Socio-Legal History of the Colorado River, 33 WESTERN LEGAL HISTORY 144 (2023)
The Color(blind) Conundrum in Colorado Property Law, 94 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO LAW REVIEW 449 (2023)
A Brown Buffalo’s Observations on Color(Blindness), Legal History, and Racial Justice in the Rocky Mountain West, 2022 UTAH LAW REVIEW 751 (2022)
The Color of Local Government: Observations of a Brown Buffalo on Racial Impact Statements in the Movement for Water Justice, 25 CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK LAW REVIEW 242 (2022)
Bridging the Confluence of Immigration and Water Law, 48 TEXAS TECH LAW REVIEW 779 (2016)
The Keyes to Reclaiming the Racial History of the Roberts Court, 20 MICHIGAN JOURNAL OF RACE & LAW 415 (2015)
Observations on History, Law, and the Rise of the New Jim Crow in State-Level Immigration Law and Policy for Latinos, 66 AMERICAN QUARTERLY 143 (March 2014)
How I Rode the Bus to Become a Law Professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law: Reflections on Keyes Legacy for the Metropolitan, Post-racial, and Multiracial 21st Century, 90 DENVER LAW REVIEW 1023 (2013)
The Color of Water: Observations of a Brown Buffalo on Water Law and Policy in Ten Stanzas, 15 DENVER WATER LAW REVIEW 329 (2012), republished in 1 UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI RACE & SOCIAL JUSTICE LAW REVIEW 107 (2011)
“Of Greater Value than the Gold of Our Mountains”: The Right to Education in Colorado’s Nineteenth Century Constitution, 83 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO LAW REVIEW 781 (2012)
The Social Reconstruction of Race & Ethnicity of the Nation’s Laws Students: New Changes in Reporting Requirements, 2011 MICHIGAN STATE LAW REVIEW 1133 (2012)(with Kevin Brown)
100 Years Strong: Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services and the On-Going Pursuit for Equal Rights and Equal Justice, 31 HAMLINE JOURNAL OF PUBLIC LAW AND POLICY 1 (2009) (with Bruce Beneke)
Kelo-Parents Involved and the Spatialization of Color (blindness) in the Berman-Brown Metropolitan Heterotopia, 2008 UTAH LAW REVIEW 947 (Winter 2009)
No Brown Towns: Anti-Immigrant Ordinances and Equality of Educational Opportunity for Latina/os, 12 JOURNAL OF GENDER, RACE & JUSTICE 13 (University of Iowa) (2008)
MALDEF and the Legal Investment in a Multi-Colored America, 18 BERKELEY LA RAZA LAW JOURNAL 135 (2007)
Bound Between and Beyond the Borderlands: Region, Race, Scale and a Subnational Legal History, 9 OREGON REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 301 (2007)
¿La Raza Latina?: Multiracial Ambivalence, Color Denial, and the Emergence of a Tri-Ethnic Jurisprudence at the End of the 20th Century, 37 NEW MEXICO LAW REVIEW 245 (2007)
War of a Much Different Kind: Poverty and the Possessive Investment in Color in the 1960s United States, 26 U.C.L.A. CHICANO-LATINO LAW REVIEW 69 (2006)
Colorado’s Centennial Constitution and the Ambivalent Promise of Human Rights and Social Equality, 69 ALBANY LAW REVIEW 101 (2006)
Land, Culture, and Legal Exchange in Colorado’s Mountains, Plains, and Deserts PROCEEDINGS OF EXCHANGE, PRACTICES AND REPRESENTATIONS/L’ÉXCHANGE: MODALITIEÉS ET REPRÉSENTATIONS, 125-170 (Université Presses de Sorbonne, 2005)
“Our Selma is Here:” The Political and Legal Struggle for Educational Equality in Denver, Colorado and Multiracial Dilemmas in American Jurisprudence” 3 SEATTLE JOURNAL OF SOCIAL JUSTICE 73 (Fall/Winter 2004)
The Tri-Ethnic Dilemma: The 14th Amendment Goes West, 13 TEMPLE POLITICAL AND CIVIL RIGHTS LAW REVIEW 817 (Spring 2004)
Wearing the Red, White, and Blue Trunks of Aztlán: Rodolfo ‘Corky’ Gonzales and the Convergence of American and Chicano Nationalism 29 AZTLÁN: A JOURNAL OF CHICANO STUDIES 83 (Spring 2004)
Uncertain Waters and Contested Lands: Excavating the Layers of Colorado’s Legal Past, 73 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO LAW REVIEW 521 (Spring 2002)
Books
IMAGINE A GREAT CITY: LAW AND THE MAKING OF MULTI-COLOR METROPOLITAN AMERICA (Book Manuscript)
Book Chapters
Ditches and Desirability: Regulating the Flow and Quality of Immigration Through the Doctrine of Prior Appropriation in the 19th and early 20th Century American West, in Katrina Jagodinskyy and Pablo Mitchell, eds. BEYOND THE BORDERS OF THE LAW: CRITICAL LEGAL HISTORIES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN WEST (University of Kansas Press, 2018)
A War to Keep Alien Labor Out of Colorado:” The "Mexican Menace" and Colorado's Depression-Era Militarization of Immigration Law and Policy, in Carissa Hessick and G. Jack Chin, eds. STRANGE NEIGHBORS: THE ROLE OF STATES IN IMMIGRATION POLICY (New York University Press, 2014)
Several Contributions, Frank Gibbord, ed., STEAMS, STEEL, AND STATUTES: TRUE TALES FROM COLORADO LEGAL HISTORY (2010)
No Brown Towns: Anti-Immigrant Ordinances and Equality of Educational Opportunity for Latina/os, in Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, eds., THE LATINO CONDITION: A CRITICAL READER, 2nd edition (New York University Press, 2010)
Co-Author with Nicki Gonzales, Latinos in Colorado, in LATINO AMERICA: STATE BY STATE (Greenwood Publishing, 2008)
Wearing the Red, White, and Blue Trunks of Aztlán: Rodolfo ‘Corky’ Gonzales and the Convergence of American and Chicano Nationalism, in Jorge Iber and Samuel O. Regalado, eds., MEXICAN AMERICANS AND SPORTS: A READER ON ATHLETICS AND BARRIO LIFE (Texas A&M University Press, 2007)
Book Reviews, Review Essays, and Blogs
The Beginning of the End of the American Experiment, Hindsight 20/20 Project, COLORADO MAGAZINE (January 25, 2021)
Always in Crisis: COVID-19 and the Role of Higher Education in Supporting Research, Scholarship, and Curriculum to Challenge Racial Inequity in American Culture and Life, IRISE BLOG (April 28, 2020)
Review of Justice Gregory Hobbs, Jr., LIVING THE FOUR CORNERS: COLORADO CENTENNIAL STATE AT THE HEADWATERS, 39 COLORADO LAWYER 59 (December 2010)
Review of George Mariscal’s, BROWN-EYED CHILDREN OF THE SUN: LESSONS FROM THE CHICANO MOVEMENT, 1965-1975, 64 THE AMERICAS 108-109 (July 2007)
Review of Carlos R. Soltero’s, LATINOS AND AMERICAN LAW: LANDMARK SUPREME COURT CASES, 83 NEW MEXICO HISTORICAL REVIEW 264 (Spring 2008)
Bar Journals
Rocky Mountain Riches: Law and the Extraction of Colorado’s Mineral Wealth, Historical Perspectives, 32 COLORADO LAWYER 60, November 2003
Turbulence a Mile High: Equal Employment Opportunity in the Colorado Sky, Historical Perspectives, 32 COLORADO LAWYER 71, September 2003
Race, Murder, and Criminal Prosecution in Wartime Denver, Historical Perspective, 32 COLORADO LAWYER 56, July 2003
Law and Equity in Colorado’s Nineteenth Century Suffrage Movement, Historical Perspectives, 32 COLORADO LAWYER 43, May 2003
Modern Day Minutemen: The Colorado Bar and Legal Reform in Cold War Colorado, Historical Perspectives, 32 COLORADO LAWYER 49, March 2003
“Last Night Was the End of the World:” Prohibition in Colorado, Historical Perspectives, 32 COLORADO LAWYER 41, January 2003
Bah Humbug! Colorado Law and the Winter Holiday Season, Historical Perspectives, 31 COLORADO LAWYER 139, December 2002
Forming the Environmental Citizen: Colorado’s Early Legal Efforts at Protecting Outdoor Recreation, Historical Perspectives, 31 COLORADO LAWYER 120, November 2002
Law, Order, and Municipal Authority in Colorado’s Early Mining Towns, Historical Perspectives, 31 COLORADO LAWYER 134, October 2002
The Original “Sod Squad:” Dry Lawns, Dirty Cars, and the Legality of the Denver Water Board’s Water Restrictions in the 1950s,” Historical Perspectives, 31 COLORADO LAWYER 110, September 2002
Raging Waters at Cub Creek: A Homesteader Confronts Prior Appropriation, Historical Perspectives, 31 COLORADO LAWYER 82, July 2002
Encyclopedia Contributions
Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales entry AMERICAN NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY (2016)
Aztlán entry ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RACE, ETHNICITY AND SOCIETY (SAGE, 2007)
Three Entries on Chicano Political History ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MINORITIES IN AMERICAN POLITICS (Oryx Press, 2000)
Morton Horwitz entry ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HISTORIANS AND HISTORICAL REVIEW (Fitz Dearborn and Publishers, 2000)