The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has found evidence that the University of Denver Sturm College of Law has for decades paid female faculty less than their male colleagues.

The law school may owe as much as $1.2 million in back pay to female professors and could be liable for attorney costs and more for violating the Equal Pay Act, according to Equal Rights Advocates, a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization that helped represent longtime Denver law professor and complainant Lucy Marsh.