Emily M. Calhoun is Professor of Law and the University of Colorado Law School. She has devoted her career to empowering and protecting the rights of individuals, was a civil rights attorney with the Southern Regional Office of the American Civil Liberties Union in the early 1970s, worked as a university administrator to ensure equality for faculty and students, served on the Board of Directors of the Colorado ACLU and the Boulder County Safehouse for battered women, and was a member of the University of Colorado's Privilege and Tenure Committee hearing faculty grievances affecting academic privileges and freedom. Calhoun currently serves as a mediator of academic freedom disputes for the University of Colorado system; teaches and writes in the area of civil liberties litigation, civil rights legislation, and federal jurisdiction; and consults with organizations and attorneys on constitutional rights issues.