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 2014
All that Heaven Will Allow: A Statistical Analysis of the Co-existence of Same Sex Marriage and Gay Matrimonial Bans, Deirdre Bowen
This Is Your Sword: Does Plaintiff Prior Conviction Evidence Affect Civil Trial Outcomes, Deirdre Bowen and Kathryn Stanchi
Complexity Theory and the Horizontal and Vertical Dimensions of State Responsibility, Mark Chinen
Bankruptcy’s Corporate Tax Loophole, Diane Lourdes Dick
Citizens United & the First Amendment of Labor Law, Charlotte Garden
Meta Rights, Charlotte Garden
Unions & Campaign Finance Litigation, Charlotte Garden
Women of Color in Legal Education: Challenging the Presumption of Incompetence, Carmen Gonzalez
Presumed Incompetent: Continuing the Conversation, Carmen Gonzalez and Angela P. Harris
The Taxation of Intellectual Capital, Lily Kahng
China-African Investment Treaties: Old Rules, New Challenges, Won Kidane
The China-Africa Factor in the Contemporary ICSID Legitimacy Debate, Won Kidane
Collusion to Control a Powerful Customer: Amazon, E-Books, and Antitrust Policy, John B. Kirkwood
A Legal Practitioner’s Guide to Indian and Tribal Law Research, Kelly Kunsch
Foreword: Looking Back, Moving Forward: Latin Roots of the Modern Global and Global Orientation of LatCrit, Tayyab Mahmud
Coal and Commerce: Local Review of the Gateway Pacific Coal Terminal, Henry W. McGee, David A. Bricklin, and Bryan Telegin
Does Shari’a Play a Role in Turkey?, Russell Powell
The Possible Advantages of Islamic Financial Jurisprudence: An Empirical Study of the Dow Jones Islamic Market Index, Russell Powell and Arthur DeLong
The Siren Is Calling: Economic and Ideological Trends Toward Privatization of Public Police Forces, Karena Rahall
Invidious Deliberation: The Problem of Congressional Bias in Federal Hate Crime Legislation, Sara Rankin
Impeachment by Unreliable Conviction, Anna Roberts
For a Feminist Considering Surrogacy, is Compensation Really the Key Question?, Julie Shapiro
A Continuing Plague: Faceless Transactions and the Coincident Rise of Food Adulteration and Legal Regulation of Quality, Denis Stearns
Prosser’s Bait-and-Switch: How Food Safety Was Sacrificed in the Battle for Tort’s Empire, Denis Stearns
The Anti-Federalists’ Toughest Challenge: Paper Money, Debt Relief, and the Ratification of the Constitution, George Van Cleve
Parting Companies: The Glorious Revolution, the Enforcement Powers of the East India and Royal African Companies, and Imperial Mercantilism, George Van Cleve and William A. Pettigrew
Submissions from 2013
Drug Panics in The Twenty-First Century: Ecstasy, Prescription Drugs, And The Reframing Of The War On Drugs, Deborah Ahrens
Rights, Resources and Rhetoric: Indigenous Peoples and the Inter-American Court, Tom Antkowiak
Derrick Bell: Oregon Trailblazer, Steve Bender
Joint Reform?: The Interplay of State, Federal, and Hemispheric Regulation of Recreational Marijuana and the Failed War on Drugs, Steven W. Bender
Fifty Years After Gideon: It is Long Past Time to Provide Lawyers for Misdemeanor Defendants Who Cannot Afford to Hire Their Own, Robert C. Boruchowitz
Windsor’s Purgatory: State DOMA’s Can’t Stabilize Straight Marriages, but They Can Still Prevent Gay Marriage, Deirdre Bowen
Engaging First-Year Students through Pro Bono Collaborations in Legal Writing, Mary Bowman
Full Disclosure: Cognitive Bias, Informants, and Search Warrant Scrutiny, Mary Bowman
Increased Risks of Needing Long-Term Care Among Older Adults Living With Same-Sex Partners, Lisa Brodoff and Bridget Hiedemann
The Invention of Asian Americans, Robert S. Chang
Derrick A. Bell, Jr.: Serving Two Masters Elegantly, Margaret Chon
Slow Logo: Brand Citizenship in Global Value Networks, Margaret Chon
Postscript to a Deanship, Annette E. Clark
Prison is Prison, Brooke Coleman
Mania: The Lives, Literature, and Law of the Beats, Ronald K.L. Collins and David M. Skover
Greetings and Grievances: A Letter from Afghan Professors, Laurel Currie Oates
Legal Ethics, Commercial Practice and the Certainty Imperative: A Cautionary Note, Diane Lourdes Dick
The Chapter 11 Efficiency Fallacy, Diane Lourdes Dick
Promoting Language Access in the Legal Academy, Gillian Dutton, Beth Lyon, Jayesh Rathod, and Deborah Weissman
Bell Labs: Derrick Bell’s Inspirational Pedagogy, Charlotte Garden
Union Made: Labor’s Litigation for Social Change, Charlotte Garden
"So Closely Intertwined": Labor Interests and Racial Solidarity, Charlotte Garden and Nancy Leong
Introduction: Presumed Incompetent: Continuing the Conversation (Part II), Carmen G. Gonzalez and Angela P. Harris
Path Dependence in Tax Subsidies for Home Sales, Lily Kahng
The IRS Tea Party Controversy and Administrative Discretion, Lily Kahng
Costly Mistakes: Undertaxed Business Owners and Overtaxed Workers, Lily Kahng and Mary Louise Fellows
The Essence of Antitrust: Protecting Consumers and Small Suppliers from Anticompetitive Conduct, John B. Kirkwood
Cheaper Than a Slave: Indentured Labor, Colonialism and Capitalism, Tayyab Mahmud
Debt and Discipline: Neoliberal Political Economy and the Working Classes, Tayyab Mahmud
Derrick Bell: Ethical Ambition and Law Teaching, Natasha Martin
A Tribute to Derrick Bell, Henry W. McGee
The Evolution of the Modern Corporation: Corporate Governance Reform in Context, Charles O'Kelley
Fishable Waters, Catherine A. O'Neill
Embracing the Queen of Hearts: Deference to Retroactive Tax Rules, James Puckett
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
Can Law Schools Prepare Students to be Practice Ready?, Sara Rankin, Susanna K. Ripken, R. Michael Cassidy, and James E. Moliterno
A Twice-Told Tale: Plausibility and Narrative Coherence in Judicial Storytelling, Chris Rideout
Casual Ostracism: Jury Exclusion on the Basis of Criminal Convictions, Anna Roberts
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
Review of Colin Dayan’s The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons, Dean Spade
Under the Cover of Gay Rights, Dean Spade
Transforming Domestic Violence Representation, Jane Stoever
Submissions from 2012
The Homeowners’ Illusory Safety Net: Mortgage Broker Surety Liability, Bryan Adamson
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
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
Don’t Blame Crawford or Bryant: The Confrontation Clause Mess Is All Davis’s Fault, Deborah Ahrens and John Mitchell
Reflections on my Colleague, Tom Holdych, Janet Ainsworth
Introduction, Lorraine K. Bannai
Lemkin’s Situation: Toward a Rhetorical Understanding of "Genocide", Perry Bechky
Microinvestment Disputes, Perry Bechky
En Paz Descanse: Remembering Keith Aoki’s Contributions Toward Latina/o Equality, Steven W. Bender
Gringo Alley, Steven W. Bender
Unbound by Law: Keith Aoki as Our Avatar, Steven W. Bender and Ibrahim J. Gassama
Many-to-Many Contracts, Heidi S. Bond
American Skin: Dispensing with Colorblindness and Critical Mass in Affirmative Action, Deirdre Bowen
Centering the Immigrant in the Inter/national Imagination (Part III): Aoki, Rawls, and Immigration, Robert S. Chang
Keith Aoki’s Theory of Racial Microclimes, Robert S. Chang
Preliminary Report on Race and Washington’s Criminal Justice System, Robert S. Chang
Crumbs from the Table: The Syrophoenician Woman and International Law, Mark A. Chinen
Law Professor as Artist: Themes and Variations in Keith Aoki's Intellectual Property Scholarship, Margaret Chon
Supercolleague, Margaret Chon
The Romantic Collective Author, Margaret Chon
Tribute to Professor Thomas J. Holdych, Annette E. Clark
Lassiter v. Department of Social Services: Why Is It Such a Lousy Case?, Brooke D. Coleman
Summary Judgment: What We Think We Know Versus What We Ought To Know, Brooke D. Coleman
The Vanishing Plaintiff, Brooke D. Coleman
What If?: A Study of Seminal Cases as if Decided in a Twombly/Iqbal Regime, Brooke D. Coleman
Centennial Reflections on the California Law Review's Scholarship on Race: The Structure of Civil Rights Thought, Richard Delgado
Four Reservations on Civil Rights Reasoning by Analogy: The Case of Latinos and Other Nonblack Groups, Richard Delgado
Naim v. Naim, Richard Delgado
Recent Writing on Law and Happiness, Richard Delgado