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.

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Submissions from 2013

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The Invention of Asian Americans, Robert S. Chang

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Derrick A. Bell, Jr.: Serving Two Masters Elegantly, Margaret Chon

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Slow Logo: Brand Citizenship in Global Value Networks, Margaret Chon

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Postscript to a Deanship, Annette E. Clark

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Prison is Prison, Brooke Coleman

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Mania: The Lives, Literature, and Law of the Beats, Ronald K.L. Collins and David M. Skover

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Greetings and Grievances: A Letter from Afghan Professors, Laurel Currie Oates

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Legal Ethics, Commercial Practice and the Certainty Imperative: A Cautionary Note, Diane Lourdes Dick

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The Chapter 11 Efficiency Fallacy, Diane Lourdes Dick

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Promoting Language Access in the Legal Academy, Gillian Dutton, Beth Lyon, Jayesh Rathod, and Deborah Weissman

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Bell Labs: Derrick Bell’s Inspirational Pedagogy, Charlotte Garden

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Union Made: Labor’s Litigation for Social Change, Charlotte Garden

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"So Closely Intertwined": Labor Interests and Racial Solidarity, Charlotte Garden and Nancy Leong

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Introduction: Presumed Incompetent: Continuing the Conversation (Part II), Carmen G. Gonzalez and Angela P. Harris

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Path Dependence in Tax Subsidies for Home Sales, Lily Kahng

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The IRS Tea Party Controversy and Administrative Discretion, Lily Kahng

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Costly Mistakes: Undertaxed Business Owners and Overtaxed Workers, Lily Kahng and Mary Louise Fellows

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Procedural Due Process in the Expulsion of Aliens Under International, United States, and European Union Law: A Comparative Analysis, Won Kidane

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The Essence of Antitrust: Protecting Consumers and Small Suppliers from Anticompetitive Conduct, John B. Kirkwood

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Cheaper Than a Slave: Indentured Labor, Colonialism and Capitalism, Tayyab Mahmud

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Debt and Discipline: Neoliberal Political Economy and the Working Classes, Tayyab Mahmud

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Derrick Bell: Ethical Ambition and Law Teaching, Natasha Martin

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A Tribute to Derrick Bell, Henry W. McGee

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The Evolution of the Modern Corporation: Corporate Governance Reform in Context, Charles O'Kelley

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Fishable Waters, Catherine A. O'Neill

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Embracing the Queen of Hearts: Deference to Retroactive Tax Rules, James Puckett

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The Fully Formed Lawyer: Why Law Schools Should Require Public Service to Better Prepare Students for Private Practice, Sara Rankin

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We Have a Dream: Integrating Skills Courses and Public Interest Work in the First Year of Law School (and Beyond), Sara Rankin, Lisa Brodoff, and Mary Bowman

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Can Law Schools Prepare Students to be Practice Ready?, Sara Rankin, Susanna K. Ripken, R. Michael Cassidy, and James E. Moliterno

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A Twice-Told Tale: Plausibility and Narrative Coherence in Judicial Storytelling, Chris Rideout

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Casual Ostracism: Jury Exclusion on the Basis of Criminal Convictions, Anna Roberts

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What Changed When the Gay Adoption Ban was Lifted?: Perspectives of Lesbian and Gay Parents in Florida, Julie Shapiro, Abbie E. Goldberg, April M. Moyer, and Elizabeth R. Weber

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Review of Colin Dayan’s The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons, Dean Spade

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Under the Cover of Gay Rights, Dean Spade

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Transforming Domestic Violence Representation, Jane Stoever

Submissions from 2012

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The Homeowners’ Illusory Safety Net: Mortgage Broker Surety Liability, Bryan Adamson

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The Status of Clinical Faculty in the Legal Academy: Report of the Task Force on the Status of Clinicians and the Legal Academy, Bryan Adamson

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Clinical Faculty in the Legal Academy: Hiring, Promotion, and Retention , Bryan L. Adamson, Calvin Pang, Bradford Colbert, Kathy Hessler, Katherine Kruse, Robert Kuehn, Mary Helen McNeal, and David Santacroce

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Don’t Blame Crawford or Bryant: The Confrontation Clause Mess Is All Davis’s Fault, Deborah Ahrens and John Mitchell

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Reflections on my Colleague, Tom Holdych, Janet Ainsworth

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Introduction, Lorraine K. Bannai

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Lemkin’s Situation: Toward a Rhetorical Understanding of "Genocide", Perry Bechky

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Microinvestment Disputes, Perry Bechky

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En Paz Descanse: Remembering Keith Aoki’s Contributions Toward Latina/o Equality, Steven W. Bender

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Gringo Alley, Steven W. Bender

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Unbound by Law: Keith Aoki as Our Avatar, Steven W. Bender and Ibrahim J. Gassama

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Many-to-Many Contracts, Heidi S. Bond

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American Skin: Dispensing with Colorblindness and Critical Mass in Affirmative Action, Deirdre Bowen

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Centering the Immigrant in the Inter/national Imagination (Part III): Aoki, Rawls, and Immigration, Robert S. Chang

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Keith Aoki’s Theory of Racial Microclimes, Robert S. Chang

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Preliminary Report on Race and Washington’s Criminal Justice System, Robert S. Chang

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Crumbs from the Table: The Syrophoenician Woman and International Law, Mark A. Chinen

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Law Professor as Artist: Themes and Variations in Keith Aoki's Intellectual Property Scholarship, Margaret Chon

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Supercolleague, Margaret Chon

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The Romantic Collective Author, Margaret Chon

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Tribute to Professor Thomas J. Holdych, Annette E. Clark

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Lassiter v. Department of Social Services: Why Is It Such a Lousy Case?, Brooke D. Coleman

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Summary Judgment: What We Think We Know Versus What We Ought To Know, Brooke D. Coleman

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The Vanishing Plaintiff, Brooke D. Coleman

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What If?: A Study of Seminal Cases as if Decided in a Twombly/Iqbal Regime, Brooke D. Coleman

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Centennial Reflections on the California Law Review's Scholarship on Race: The Structure of Civil Rights Thought, Richard Delgado

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Four Reservations on Civil Rights Reasoning by Analogy: The Case of Latinos and Other Nonblack Groups, Richard Delgado

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Naim v. Naim, Richard Delgado

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Recent Writing on Law and Happiness, Richard Delgado

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Citizens, United and Citizens United: The Future of Labor Speech Rights?, Charlotte Garden

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Teaching for America: Unions and Academic Freedom, Charlotte Garden

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The Global Food System, Environmental Protection, and Human Rights, Carmen G. Gonzalez

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Race, Brain Science, and Critical Decision-Making in the Context of Constitutional Criminal Procedure, Christian M. Halliburton

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Diversity Within Racial Groups and the Constitutionality of Race Conscious Admissions, Vinay Harpalani

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The Inquisitorial Advantage in Removal Proceedings, Won Kidane

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Darth Vader, John B. Kirkwood

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Powerful Buyers and Merger Enforcement, John B. Kirkwood

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Painting Beyond the Numbers: The Art of Providing Access in Law School Admissions to Ensure Full Representation in the Profession, Paula Lustbader

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Role, Identity, and Lawyering: Empowering Professional Responsibility, Natasha Martin

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Diversity and the Virtual Workplace: Performance Identity and Shifting Boundaries of Workplace Engagement, Natasha T. Martin

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The Least of These: In Praise of Professor Tom Holdych’s Integrity and Dedication to Justice for the Disadvantaged, Henry McGee

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Un-Apologizing For Context and Experience In Legal Education, John McKay

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A Senior Faculty Member’s Favorite Sabbatical: My Teaching Sabbatical, John B. Mitchell

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Crimes of Misery and Theories of Punishment, John B. Mitchell

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A Book Review: Reservation 'Capitalism' Economic Development in Indian Country by Robert J. Miller, Douglas Nash

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Comments of the Center for Indian Law & Policy on Washington’s Fish Consumption Rate Technical Support Document, Catherine O’Neill

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Conducting Research with Tribal Communities: Sovereignty, Ethics, and Data-Sharing Issues, Catherine O’Neill, Anna Harding, Barbara Harper, Dave Stone, Patricia Berger, Stuart Harris, and Jamie Donatuto

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Forgiveness in Islamic Ethics and Jurisprudence, Russell Powell

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Location, Location, Location: Using Cost of Living to Achieve Tax Equity, James Puckett

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Health Cover(age)ing, Becca Rausch

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Reframing Roe: Property over Privacy, Becca Rausch

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Tom Holdych: A Tribute, in “In Memory of Professor Thomas J. Holdych”, Chris Rideout

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Disparately Seeking Jurors: Disparate Impact and the (Mis)use of Batson, Anna Roberts

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(Re)forming the Jury: Detection and Disinfection of Implicit Juror Bias, Anna Roberts

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It's Time for an Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedure, James Rosenfield

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Rule 3.8, The Jencks Act, And How The ABA Created A Conflict Between Ethics And The Law On Prosecutorial Disclosure, Kirsten Schimpff

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Counting from One: Replacing the Marital Presumption with a Presumption of Sole Parentage, Julie Shapiro

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A Pragmatic Republic, If You Can Keep It, Bill Sherman

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The Guardians of Knowledge in the Modern State: Post’s Republic and the First Amendment, David M. Skover and Ronald K. L. Collins

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Terrace v. Thompson and the Legacy of Manifest Destiny, Jean Stefancic

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Saving the Puget Sound Wild Salmon Fishery, George Van Cleve

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Tribute to Professor Tom Holdych, John Weaver

Submissions from 2011

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The Muslim Manchurian Candidate: Barack Obama, Rumors, and Quotidian Hermeneutics, Bryan Adamson

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Can the Professor Come Out and Play?—Scholarship, Teaching, and Theories of Play, Bryan Adamson, Lisa Brodoff, Marilyn Berger, Anne Enquist, Paula Lustbader, and John B. Mitchell

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An Emerging Mandate for International Courts: Victim-Centered Remedies and Restorative Justice, Tom M. Antkowiak