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 1999
Narrative and Client-Centered Representation: What Is A True Believer To Do When His Two Favorite Theories Collide?, John B. Mitchell
Washington's Growth Management Revolution Goes to Court, Richard L. Settle
A Lesbian-centered Critique of Second-parent Adoptions, Julie Shapiro
De Facto Parents and the Unfulfilled Promise of the New ALI Principles, Julie Shapiro
Imperatives, Normativity, and the Law, Gregory Silverman
Apartheid as a Crime Against Humanity: A Submission to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Ronald Slye
Why Isn't This Man Smiling?, John W. Weaver
Submissions from 1998
Castles in the Sand: Balancing Public Custom and Private Ownership Interests on Oregon’s Beaches, Steven W. Bender
Gender Bias in the American Bar Association Journal: Impact on the Legal Profession, Marilyn Berger and Kari A. Robinson
Dreaming in Black and White: Racial-Sexual Policing in The Birth of a Nation, The Cheat, and Who Killed Vincent Chin?, Robert S. Chang
Who's Afraid of Tiger Woods?, Robert S. Chang
Casebooks and Constitutional Competency, David E. Engdahl
Resurrecting the General Utilities Doctrine, Lily Kahng
Standing on the Corner--Trying to Find Our Way, W. H. Knight
The Power of Narrative: Listening to the Initial Client Interview, Raven Lidman
The Guardian Ad Litem in Child Custody Cases: The Contours of Our Judicial System Stretched Beyond Recognition, Raven Lidman and Betsy Hollingsworth
Teach in Context: Responding to Diverse Student Voices Helps All Students Learn, Paula Lustbader
The Dream That Will Not Die: Martin Luther King, Jr., And The Continuing American Revolution, Henry McGee
The P.R.C.'s Negotiable Instruments Law: An Instrument for Facilitating Private Economic Activity or Monetary Control?, Kara Phillips and Amy Sommers
“To Learn and Make Respectable Hereafter:” The Litchfield Law School in Cultural Context, Andrew Siegel
Submissions from 1997
Preface: Law in (Case)books, Law (School) in Action: The Case for Casebook Reviews, Janet Ainsworth
Fostering Diversity in the Legal Profession: A Model for Preparing Minority and Other Non-Traditional Students for Law School, Lorraine K. Bannai and Marie Eaton
Direct Democracy and Distrust: The Relationship between Language Law Rhetoric and the Language Vigilantism Experience, Steven W. Bender
Foreword: Toward a Radical and Plural Democracy, Robert S. Chang
Racial Cross-Dressing, Robert S. Chang
Centering the Immigrant in the Inter/National Imagination, Robert S. Chang and Keith Aoki
Foreword: Citizenship and Its Discontents - Centering the Immigrant in the Inter/National Imagination (Part II), Robert S. Chang, Keith Aoki, and Ibrahim Gassama
Nothing and Everything: Race, Romer, and (Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual) Rights, Robert S. Chang and Jerome Culp
Acting Upon Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics by Lisa Lowe- A Review Colloquy, Margaret Chon
Being Between: A Review of CHINESE WOMEN TRAVERSING DIASPORA: MEMOIRS, ESSAYS, AND POETRY, Margaret Chon
Introduction, Margaret Chon
Radical Plural Democracy and the Internet, Margaret Chon
The New Requirement of Enforcement Reliance in Commercial Promissory Estoppel: Section 90 as Catch-22, Sidney DeLong
An Agnostic's Bible Contract and Related Obligation: Theory, Doctrine, and Practice, 3d Edition by Robert S. Summers and Robert A. Hillman, Sidney W. DeLong
Keynote Colloquy: Finding Justice in the Internet Dimension, Hon. Alex Kozinski
Diogenes Wanders the Superhighway: A Proposal for Authentication of Publicly Disseminated Documents on the Internet, Kelly Kunsch
Construction Sites, Building Types, and Bridging Gaps: A Cognitive Theory of the Learning Progression of Law Students, Paula Lustbader
From Dreams to Reality: The Emerging Role of Law School Academic Support, Paula Lustbader
Migration, Identity & the Colonial Encounter, Tayyab Mahmud
A Clinical Textbook?, John B. Mitchell
Beating the Odds: Reading Strategies of Law Students Admitted Through Alternative Admissions Programs, Laurel Oates
Education's Promise, Laurel Oates and Sam Wineberg
Single-Sex Education After United States v. Virginia, Catherine O’Neill
Socio-Economic Rights and the South African Transition: The Role of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Ronald Slye
Submissions from 1996
Categories and Culture: On the 'Rectification of Names' in Comparative Law, Janet Ainsworth
On Seeing Chinese Law from a Chinese Point of View: An Appreciative Look at the Scholarly Career of Professor William Jones, Janet Ainsworth
Consumer Protection for Latinos: Overcoming Language Fraud and English Only in the Marketplace, Steven W. Bender
The Use of Offender Characteristics In Guideline Sentencing: A Laboratory Report From Washington State, David Boerner
Eulogy for Jim Beaver February 29, 1996, James E. Bond
Tribute to James E. Beaver, Melinda J. Branscomb
Passion and the Asian American Legal Scholar, Robert S. Chang
Reverse Racism!: Affirmative Action, the Family, and the Dream that Is America, Robert S. Chang
The End of Innocence or Politics after the Fall of the Essential Subject, Robert S. Chang
The Nativist's Dream of Return, Robert S. Chang
Chon on Chen on Chang, Margaret Chon
New Wine Bursting From Old Bottles: Collaborative Internet Art, Joint Works, and Entrepreneurship, Margaret Chon
Autonomy and Death, Annette E. Clark
Critiquing Law Students’ Writing: What the Students Say Is Effective, Anne Enquist
Jim Beaver, The Founding Member Of This Law School, Thomas Holdych
Echo: Words Spoken In Memory Of James Beaver, Kelly Kunsch
James Edward Beaver-Beethovenist, Henry McGee
Tribute to James E. Beaver, John Mitchell
Assessing the Tax Administration Law of the People's Republic of China, Kara Phillips and Amy Sommers
Tribute to James E. Beaver, Mark Reutlinger
Custody and Conduct: How the Law Fails Lesbian and Gay Parents and Their Children, Julie Shapiro
Afterword: New "Truths" and the Old First Amendment, David Skover and Ronald Collins
The Dayton Peace Agreement: Constitutionalism and Ethnicity, Ronald Slye
Submissions from 1995
Youth Justice in a Unified Court: Response to Critics of Juvenile Court Abolition, Janet Ainsworth
Civil Forfeiture and the Eighth Amendment After Austin, James E. Beaver, Kit G. Narodick, and Joseph M. Wallin
Sentencing Guidelines and Prosecutorial Discretion, David Boerner
On the Need for Asian American Narratives in Law: Ethnic Specimens, Native Informants, Storytelling and Silences, Margaret Chon
On Comparing Apples and Oranges: The Judicial Clerkship Selection Process and the Medical Matching Model, Annette E. Clark
Preface, Annette E. Clark
Jacques of All Trades: Derrida, Lacan, and the Commercial Lawyer, Sidney DeLong
The Basis of the Spending Power, David E. Engdahl
Juvenile Detention Law in the District of Columbia: A Practitioner’s Guide, Paul Holland, John Copacino, and Milton Lee
Whatever Happened to the Right to Treatment: The Modern Quest for an Historical Promise, Paul Holland and Wallace Mlyniec
Dough, Re, Me: The Scale of Justice (A Descant for Entering First-Year Law Students), Kelly Kunsch
Freedom of Religion & Religious Minorities in Pakistan: A Study of Judicial Practice, Tayyab Mahmud
And Then Suddenly Seattle University Was On Its Way To A Parallel, Integrative Curriculum, John B. Mitchell, B. Hollingsworth, P. Clark, and R. Lidman
Human Rights in Theory and Practice: A Review of On Human Rights, Ronald Slye
Submissions from 1994
Oregon Consumer Protection: Outfitting Private Attorneys General for the Lean Years Ahead, Steven W. Bender
Standard of Review (State & Federal): A Primer, Kelly Kunsch
Tip Jars at the Law Library Reference Desk, Kelly Kunsch
Some Tips on Using Collaborative Exercises, Paula Lustbader
Jurisprudence of Successful Treason: Coup d'Etat & Common Law, Tayyab Mahmud
Redefining the Sixth Amendment, John B. Mitchell
Foreword: Understanding the Place of Limited Liability Companies in the Spectrum of Business Forms, Charles O'Kelley
When Words Fail Me: Diagramming the Rule Against Perpetuities, Mark Reutlinger
Appendix: The Sleeves From our Vest: Naming a Perpetuities Non-event, Mark Reutlinger and John Weaver
Legal Writing: A Revised View, Chris Rideout and Jill J. Ramsfield
Snake Pits and Unseen Actors: Constitutional Liability for Indirect Harm, Julie Shapiro
The Pornographic State, David Skover and Ronald Collins
DIANA: A Human Rights Database, Ronald Slye, Nicholas D. Finke, Taylor Fitchett, and Harold Koh
Equal Enforcement for All, George Van Cleve
Submissions from 1993
In a Different Register: The Pragmatics of Powerlessness in Police Interrogation, Janet Ainsworth
Rethinking Advocacy Training, Marilyn Berger and John Mitchell
Woman's Ghetto Within the Legal Profession, Marilyn Berger and Kari A. Robinson