Seattle University School of Law is home to an outstanding faculty of committed teacher-scholars. This is a collection of selected scholarship from some of our inspiring thought leaders.
Submissions from 2008
Focus on Batson: Let the Cameras Roll, Mimi Samuel
From Bad to Worse?: Some Early Speculation About the Roberts Court & the Constitutional Fate of the Poor, Andy Siegel
Nuremberg’s Legacy Continues: The Nuremberg Trials’ Influence on Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts, Gwynne Skinner
Corporations, Veils, and International Criminal Liability, Ronald Slye
Documenting Gender, Dean Spade
Introduction, Kellye Y. Testy
Submissions from 2007
Past Reflections, Future Insights: African Asylum Law and Policy in Historical Perspective, Edwin Odhiambo Abuya
Reinforcing Refugee Protection in the Wake of the War on Terror, Edwin Odhiambo Abuya
A Thousand Humiliations: What Brown Could Not Do, Bryan Adamson
Federal Rule Of Civil Procedure 52(A) As An Ideological Weapon?, Bryan Adamson
Moiwana Village v. Suriname: A Portal into Recent Jurisprudential Developments of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Thomas Antkowiak
Voting Rights in California: 1982-2006, Joaquin G. Avila, Eugene Lee, and Terry Ao
Old Hate in New Bottles: Privatizing, Localizing, and Bundling Anti-Spanish and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment in the 21st Century, Steven W. Bender
Afterword: The Race Question in LatCrit Theory and Asian American Jurisprudence, Robert S. Chang and Neil Gotanda
Marketing Law Libraries: Strategies and Techniques in the Digital Age, Kristin Cheney
Alaska Initiatives and Referenda, Tina Ching
Arizona Initiatives and Referenda, Tina Ching
Intellectual Property from Below: Copyright and Capability for Education, Margaret Chon
Slouching Towards Development in International Intellectual Property, Margaret Chon, Denis Borges Barbosa, and Andrés Moncayo von Hase
Tax and Economic Policy Responses to the Medicaid Long-Term Care Financing Crisis: A Behavioral Economics Approach, Diane Lourdes Dick
The Restricted Gift Lifecycle, or, What Comes Around Goes Around, John K. Eason
The Contract Thesis of the Federal Spending Power, David Engdahl
Letting Katz Out of the Bag: Cognitive Freedom and Fourth Amendment Fidelity, Christian Halliburton
The Constitutional and Statutory Framework Organizing the Office of the United States Attorney, Christian M. Halliburton
Fishery Conservation and Management Act Reauthorization: “A” for Effort, “C” for Substance, Madeline Kass
Combating Corruption Through International Law in Africa: A Comparative Analysis, Won Kidane and Tom Snider
The Robinson-Patman Act and Consumer Welfare: Has Volvo Reconciled Them?, John B. Kirkwood
Geography and International Law: Towards a Postcolonial Mapping, Tayyab Mahmud
Reality, Theory, and a Make-Believe World: The Fundamentalism of the "Free" Market, Daniel Bonilla Maldonado, Collin Crawford, and Carmen G. Gonzalez
Washington's Way: Dispersed Enforcement of Growth Management Controls and the Crucial Role of NGOs, Henry W. McGee, Jr.
Train Wreck at the Justice Department: An Eyewitness Account, John McKay
Chatting with the Lady in the Grocery Store About Hernandez v. Robles, the New York Same-Sex Marriage Case, John B. Mitchell
Using Global Law to Teach Domestic Advocacy, John B. Mitchell
No Mud Pies: Risk Avoidance as Risk Regulation, Catherine O’Neill
Protecting the Tribal Harvest: The Right to Catch and Consume Fish, Catherine O’Neill
The Enron Trial Drama: A New Case for Stakeholder Theory, Russell Powell
Corporations and Political Speech: Should Speech Equal Money?, David Skover, Lisa Danetz, Martin Redish, and Scott Thomas
Submissions from 2006
The H’aint in the (School) House: The Interest Convergence Paradigm in State Legislatures and School Finance Reform, Bryan Adamson
Linguistics as a Knowledge Domain in the Law, Janet Ainsworth
Latinos and American Law: Landmark Supreme Court Cases, Steven W. Bender
The Adventures of Blackness in Western Culture: An Epistolary Exchange on Old and New Identity Wars, Robert S. Chang and Adrienne D. Davis
On Lawyers and Good Samaritans, Mark A. Chinen
Intellectual Property and the Development Divide, Margaret Chon
The Right to Die: The Broken Road from Quinlan to Schiavo, Annette E. Clark
Policy, Logic, and Persuasion in the Evolving Realm of Trust Asset Protection, John K. Eason
Deconstructing the Mythology of Free Trade: Critical Reflections on Comparative Advantage, Carmen Gonzalez
Markets, Monocultures, and Malnutrition: Agricultural Trade Policy Through an Environmental Justice Lens, Carmen Gonzalez
Schooling Miranda: Policing Interrogation in the Twenty-First Century Schoolhouse, Paul Holland
A Conversation Among Deans on Results: Legal Education, Institutional Change, and a Decade of Gender Studies, W. H. Knight, K. Bartlett, and E. Rubin
The Trials of Leschi, Nisqually Chief, Kelly Kunsch
Civil Gideon: A Human Right Elsewhere in the World, Raven Lidman
Civil Gideon as a Human Right: Is the U.S. Going to Join Step with the Rest of the Developed World?, Raven Lidman
To Teach Justice we must Create a Learning Environment That Embodies its Principles, Paula Lustbader
Postcoloniality and Mythologies of Civil(ized) Society, Tayyab Mahmud
My Father, John Locke, and Assisted Suicide: The Real Constitutional Right, John B. Mitchell
Leveling the Playing Field: Helping Students Succeed by Helping Them Learn to Read as Expert Lawyers, Laurel Oates
The Entrepreneur and the Theory of the Modern Corporation, Charles O'Kelley
The Perils of Risk Avoidance, Catherine O'Neill
The Principled Executioner: Capital Juries’ Bias and the Benefits of True Bifurcation, Susan D. Rozelle
From Oppression to Outsourcing: New Opportunities for Uganda's Growing Number of Attorneys in Today's Flattening World, Mimi Samuel and Laurel Currie Oates
A Lesbian Centered Critique of “Genetic Parenthood”, Julie Shapiro
Equal Protection Unmodified: Justice John Paul Stevens and the Case for Unmediated Constitutional Interpretation, Andrew Siegel
The Court Against the Courts: Hostility to Litigation as an Organizing Theme in the Rehnquist Court’s Jurisprudence, Andrew Siegel
The Court Against the Courts: Hostility to Litigation as an Organizing Theme in the Rehnquist Court’s Jurisprudence, Andrew Siegel
Introductory Essays, Kellye Testy, Thomas J. Holdych, and Robert Medved
January 1, 2003: The Birth of the Unpublished Public Domain and Its International Implications, Elizabeth Townsend-Gard
Somerset’s Case and Its Antecedents in Imperial Perspective, George Van Cleve
Submissions from 2005
On Academic Discrimination, Janet Ainsworth
Taking the Stand: The Lessons of the Three men who Took the Japanese American Internment to Court, Lorraine K. Bannai
Race and the California Recall: A Top Ten List of Ironies, Steven W. Bender, Keith Aoki, and Sylvia Lazos
A Call from Jerome, Robert S. Chang
Is an Annual Report in Your Library’s Future?, Kristin Cheney
Article 9 of the Constitution of Japan and Procedural and Substantive Heuristics for Consensus, Mark A. Chinen
Walking While Muslim, Margaret Chon and Donna E. Arzt
Note: The Impact of Medicaid Estate Recovery on Nontraditional Families, Diane Lourdes Dick
The Case of the Little Yellow Cuban Biplane: Can Interest Analysis Reconcile Conflicting Provisions in Federal Statutes and International Treaties?, Diane Lourdes Dick
Private Motive and Perpetual Conditions in Charitable Naming Gifts: When Good Names Go Bad, John K. Eason
Lawrence Summers’ Speech on “Innate” Differences Between Men and Women--A Different Perspective, Thomas Fischer
Leveling the Playing Field: A New Theory of Exclusion for a Post-PATRIOT Act America, Christian Halliburton
A Seller's Responsibilities to Remote Purchasers for Breach of Warranty in the Sales of Goods Under Washington Law, Thomas J. Holdych
Citizen and Citizenship Within and Beyond the Nation, Tayyab Mahmud
Limit Horizons & Critique: Seductions and Perils of the Nation, Tayyab Mahmud
Allegory from the Cave: A Story about a Mis-Educated Profession and the Paradoxical Prescription, Natasha Martin
Litigating Global Warming: Substantive Law in Search of a Forum, Henry McGee
Evaluating Brady Error Using Narrative Theory: A Proposal For Reform, John B. Mitchell
In (Slightly Uncomfortable) Defense of ‘Triage’ by Public Defenders, John B. Mitchell
Of Driver's Licenses and Debtor's Prison, John B. Mitchell and Kelly Kunsch
Screening the Law: Ideology and Law in American Popular Culture, Mark Niles and Naomi Mezey
Toward Reconciliation in the Middle East: A Framework for Christian-Muslim Dialogue Using Natural Law Tradition, Russell Powell
Check Only One: M/F/Other, Julie Shapiro
Reflections on Complicity, Julie Shapiro
An Appreciation of Professor Herbert Johnson: Introduction to Symposium INTRODUCTION, Andrew Siegel
When Prosecutors Control Criminal Court Dockets: Dispatches on History and Policy from a Land Time Forgot, Andrew Siegel
A Curious Concurrence: Justice Brandeis' Vote in Whitney v. California, David Skover and Ronald Collins
What Is War? Reflections on Free Speech in 'Wartime, David Skover and Ronald Collins
Freedom in a Regulatory State?: Lawrence, Marriage and Biopolitics, Dean Spade and Craig Willse
The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States. 1789-1800. Vol. 7, Cases: 1796-1797, George Van Cleve