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 2025
The Purpose of Progress? A Response to Ned Snow's Immortality and Intellectual Property, Margaret Chon
Rodrigo's Extra-Credit Assignment, Can Pleading Be Both Plausible and Fair?, Richard Delgado
Alt-Legal Services: Re-Visioning Lawyers’ Role in the Fight for Worker Power, Elizabeth Ford
Indigenizing Legal Republicanism, Kip Hustace
Political Disinformation in the Anthropocene, Jeffrey Omari
Submissions from 2024
Clemency for the Common Good, Deborah Ahrens
Can We Defend the Defenders? On the Safety of Front-line Human Rights Workers, Thomas Antkowiak
Sin Vergüenza: Michael Olivas and Crop Cultivation, Steven Bender and Roman Ediberto
Converting Plain Language from Advice to Law, Michael Blasie
The Duty to Make Contracts Understandable, Michael Blasie
The Unkillable Learning Styles Myth, Michael Blasie
Firearm Restrictions in Domestic Violence Protection Orders: Implementation, Vetting, Compliance, and Enforcement, Deirdre Bowen
Assessing the Potential Consequences of Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) on the Small Business Development Program, Erin Carr and Ralph Capio
'Anti-Wokeism' and Authoritarianism: A Renewed Call for A Constitutional Right to Education, Erin Carr and Nabil Yousfi
Our Constitution Has Never Been Colorblind, Robert Chang
AI, Business, and International Human Rights, Mark Chinen
Relational Innovations and the Public Benefits of Copying, Margaret Chon
Doorbell Monitors, Pest Alarms, Neighborhood Chat Groups, and a Second Fundamental Contradiction, Richard Delgado
Foreword: Two Kinds of Participatory Legal Scholarship, Richard Delgado
Contingent Fee Conflicts: Attorneys Opt for Quick-Kill Settlements When Their Clients Would Be Better Off Going to Trial, Chryssa Deliganis, Steve Calandrillo, and Neela Brocato
The Bankruptcy Roadmap for Dealing with Valuable Data Assets, Diane Lourdes Dick
Ethical Guardrails to Unbounded Procedure, Seth Katsuya Endo
Counting Is Hard! A Theory of Doctrinal Expansion, Kip Hustace
Is India the "New China" in U.S. Foreign Policy?, Sital Kalantry
From Trauma to Transformation: Trauma-Informed Pedagogy in Law School, Monica Batra Kashyap and Angela P. Harris
Antitrust and Output, John B. Kirkwood
How Big Tech’s AI Startup Alliances Could Harm Competition, John B. Kirkwood
The Antitrust Agencies Should Take a More Muscular Approach to Common Ownership, John B. Kirkwood
A Path Toward Race-Conscious Standards for Youth: Translating Adultification Bias Theory into Doctrinal Interventions in Criminal Court, Jessica Levin
Financial Self-Determination for Native Nations Assuming Federal Programming, Nazune Menka
Native Nation Resistance to the Machinations of Settler Colonial Democracy, Nazune Menka
Fallout and Fiduciary Duty, Russell Powell
The Unavoidable Consequences of Being Human, Sara Rankin
We Must Fight Repression with Solidarity – Not by Replicating Carceral Logic, Dean Spade
Submissions from 2023
Reflections on the Korematsu, Yasui, and Hirabayashi Coram Nobis Cases on Their 40th Anniversary, Lorraine Bannai
Racial Justice and Marijuana, Steven Bender
Plain Language: Lawmaker’s Preferred Solution, Michael Blasie
Regulating Plain Language, Michael Blasie
King County Can Celebrate Strong Public Defense 60 Years after Gideon v. Wainwright", Robert Boruchowitz
New National Study Can Be a Catalyst for Transformational Change in Public Defense and the Criminal Legal System, Robert Boruchowitz
A Real Chance to Effect Real Change, Robert C. Boruchowitz
State Reporting Requirements for Involuntary Holds, Court Ordered Guardianship and the U.S. Firearm National Background Check System, Deirdre Bowen, Marian E. Betz, Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, Alexander D. McCourt, and Frederick P. Rivara
Suicide-Related Behavior and Firearms Access among Perpetrators of Domestic Violence Subject to Domestic Violence Protection Orders, Deirdre Bowen, Kimberly Dalve, Alice M. Ellyson, Julia Kafka, Frederick Rivara, and Ali Rowhani-Rahbar
Use of Immigration Status for Coercive Control in Domestic Violence Protection Orders, Deirdre M. Bowen
Variations in State Laws on Mental Health-Related Firearm Prohibition, Deirdre Bowen, Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, Alexander McCourt, Marian Betz, and Frederick P. Rivara
Misclassification of firearm-related violent crime in criminal legal system records: challenges and opportunities, Deirdre Bowen, Julia P. Schleimer, Ayah Mustafa, Rachel Ross, Andrew Bowen, Amy Gallagher, and Ali Rowhani- Rahbar
Crisis as a Catalyst for Rebirth: Disrupting Entrenched Educational Inequality in the COVID Era, Erin Carr
Asian Americans, Dog Whistles, and the Psychological Wages of “Honorary” Whiteness, Robert Chang
Antimatters: The Curious Case of Confederate Monuments, Jeremiah Chin
Duren v. Missouri: A Post-Peremptory Path to Representative Juries, Jeremiah Chin, William H. Knight, and Nicholas Bustamante
Inside or outside?: Remarks on Abitron v. Hetronic (U.S. 2023), Margaret Chon
Prioritizing Intellectual Property’s Freedom to Operate, Margaret Chon
Response: The Peoples’ Copyright, Margaret Chon
“What’s Past Is Prologue”: The Story of the Sale of the University of Puget Sound School of Law to Seattle University, Annette E. Clark
Delgado Replies, Richard Delgado
Race or Class? New Directions for Critical Theory, Richard Delgado
Interest Convergence in Immigration Law and Theory, Richard Delgado and Allen Slater
Dobbs, Right-Wing Revisionism, and Public Outrage: Rodrigo's Late-Night Chronicle, Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
The Consequences of Systemic Racism, Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
Alliance Politics in Corporate Debt Restructurings, Diane Lourdes Dick
Discovery Dark Matter, Seth Katsuya Endo
https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjrl/vol28/iss1/3/, Danieli Evans
Enhancing Reproductive Justice Transnationally: An Equality-Based Approach to Sex-Selective Abortion Laws in India, Sital Kalantry
Unacceptable Justifications for Crimes, including Crimes Committed in the Name of So-Called ‘Honour’, Sital Kalantry and Shireen Moti
A Critical Race Feminism Critique of Immigration Laws That Exclude Sex Workers: Moving from Theory to Praxis, Monica Batra Kashyap
Abolition Infrastructures: A Conversation on Solidarity Economies, Carceral Resistance, and Worldmaking, Dean Spade
Submissions from 2022
When Police Discursive Violence Interacts with Intimate Partner Violence, Janet Ainsworth
The Rise of Plain Language Laws, Michael Blasie
Protecting the Independence of Public Defenders, Robert C. Boruchowitz and Larry Jefferson
Implicit Racial and Gender Bias About Handguns: A New Implicit Association Test, Deirdre Bowen
Assessment of Variation in US State Laws Addressing the Prevention of and Response to Teen Dating Violence in Secondary Schools, Deirdre Bowen, Avanti Adhia, Melanie Kray, Mary A. Kernic, and Elizabeth Miller
Modern Authorities from Brandies to Brnovich: For Jurists Who Have Considered Social Science / When Doctrine Was Not Enough, Jeremiah Chin
Precarity and Progress, Margaret Chon
An Interest-Convergence Explanation of the 2020-2022 Conservative Attack on Critical Race Theory: A Comment on Kyle Campbell's Legally Black: Material Constructions of Race in the Atlantic World, Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
"Checking In" to Build More Connection With and Between Students, Amanda Elyse
Fee Retrenchment in Immigration Habeas, Seth Katsuya Endo End
Wage Recovery Funds, Elizabeth Ford
Foreign Law in Dobbs: The Need for A Principled Framework, Sital Kalantry
Surrogacy in the United States: From Prohibition to Permission, Sital Kalantry
The Unintended Consequences of Term Limits of Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court: Lessons from a Comparative Study of the Indian Supreme Court, Sital Kalantry
Transnational Legal Feminist Approaches to the Honour Crimes Provision in the Istanbul Convention, Sital Kalantry and Shireen Moti
Tech Giant Exclusion, John B. Kirkwood
Submissions from 2021
Toward a Race-Conscious Critique of Mental Health-Related Exclusionary Immigration Laws, Monika Batra Kashyap
Relation of Driving Under the Influence Law to Access to Firearms Across US States, Deirdre Bowen, Andrew G. Bowen, Robert A. Tessler, Miriam J. Haviland, Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, and Frederick P. Rivara
Emotions and Intellectual Property Law, Margaret Chon
Intellectual Property Research and Critical Theories, Margaret Chon
Endangered Claims, Brooke D. Coleman
Rodrigo's Reappraisal, Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
Hostile Restructurings, Diane Lourdes Dick
The Case for a Bankruptcy Shareholder Ombudsman, Diane Lourdes Dick
Harmful Anti-Sex-Selective Abortion Law Are Sweeping U.S. State Legislatures: Why Do Some Pro-Choice People Support Them?, Sital Kalantry
What Was the Dartmouth College Case Really About?, Charles R. T. O'Kelley
An Informal Exploration of How Academic Law Libraries Curate Research Guides to Support Democracy, Rule of Law, and the Legal System, Kara Phillips
Tough Conversations About Race: Let the Book Start the Discussion, Kara Phillips and Cynthia W. Bassett
Hiding Homelessness: The Transcarceration of Homelessness, Sara Rankin
Submissions from 2020
Debt Bondage: How Private Collection Agencies Keep the Formerly Incarcerated Tethered to the Criminal Justice System, Bryan Adamson
Retroactive Legality: Marijuana Convictions and Restorative Justice in an Era of Criminal Justice Reform, Deborah Ahrens
Safe Consumption Sites and the Perverse Dynamics of Federalism in the Aftermath of the War on Drugs, Deborah Ahrens