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 2010
Methademic: Drug Panic in an Age of Ambivalence, Deborah Ahrens
Language, Power, and Identity in the Workplace: Enforcement of 'English-Only' Rules by Employers, Janet Ainsworth
Brilliant Disguise: An Empirical Analysis of a Social Experiment Banning Affirmative Action, Deirdre M. Bowen
Truth or Consequences: Self-Incriminating Statements and Informant Veracity, Mary Nicol Bowman
Transcript: Session 1: One Symptom of a Serious Problem: Caperton v. Massey, Bert Brandenburg, Andrew Siegel, Richard Hasen, Kathleen Sullivan, and David M. Skover
Lifting Burdens: Proof, Social Justice, and Public Assistance Administrative Hearings, Lisa Brodoff
Introduction: Civil Legal Representation, Lisa E. Brodoff
Planning for Alzheimer's Disease with Mental Health Advance Directives, Lisa Ellen Brodoff
Asian Americans and the Road to the White House: Musings on Being Invisible, Robert S. Chang
Rock Climbing with the Gotandas, Robert S. Chang
Making Up Is Hard to Do: Race/Gender/Sexual Orientation in the Law School Classroom, Robert S. Chang and Adrienne D. Davis
Teaching as a Form of Love, Mark A. Chinen
Intellectual Property Equality, Margaret Chon
Remembering and Repairing The Error Before Us, In Our Presence, Margaret Chon
Introduction: Influential Voices, Annette Clark
In Re Marriage of King: Amicus Curiae Brief of International Law Scholars in Support of Appellant, Martha F. Davis and Raven Lidman
Rodrigo's Portent: California and the Coming Neocolonial Order, Richard Delgado
Motive, Duty, and the Management of Restricted Charitable Gifts, John K. Eason
The Global Food Crisis: Law, Policy and the Elusive Quest for Justice, Carmen G. Gonzalez
Lawyering and Learning in Problem-Solving Courts, Paul Holland
One Is the Loneliest Number: The Single Taxpayer in a Joint Return World, Lily Kahng
The Alienage Spectrum Disorder: The Bill of Rights From Chinese Exclusion in Guantanamo, Won Kidane
The Status of Private Military Contractors Under International Humanitarian Law, Won Kidane
Rethinking Antitrust Policy Toward RPM, John B. Kirkwood
Law of Geography and the Geography of Law: A Post-Colonial Mapping, Tayyab Mahmud
PIIGS, iTraxx SoyX, Neoliberalism, and Unshackled Finance Capital, Tayyab Mahmud
Slums, Slumdogs, and Resistance, Tayyab Mahmud
Pretext in Peril, Natasha T. Martin
Physician-Assisted Suicide and Dementia: The Impossibility of a Workable Regulatory Regime, John B. Mitchell
Preempting Justice: "Precrime" in Fiction and in Fact, Mark C. Niles
Berle and the Entrepreneur, Charles R.T. O'Kelley
Foreword: In Berle’s Footsteps, Charles R.T. O'Kelley
Zakat: Drawing Insights for Legal Theory and Economic Policy from Islamic Jurisprudence, Russell Powell
Rethinking Tax Priorities: Marriage Neutrality, Children, and Contemporary Families, James Puckett
Individuals and Community, Discipline Building and Disciplinary Values: The First Twenty-five Years of the Legal Writing Institute, Chris Rideout
Penumbral Thinking Revisited: Metaphor in Legal Argumentation, Chris Rideout
Tributes to Mary S. Lawrence, Chris Rideout
Discipline-Building and Disciplinary Values: Thoughts on Legal Writing at Year Twenty-Five of the Legal Writing Institute, J. Christopher Rideout
Legal Writing: The View from Within, J. Christopher Rideout and Jill J. Ramsfield
Justice Stevens and the Seattle Schools Case: A Case Study on the Role of Righteous Anger in Constitutional Discourse, Andrew Siegel
Be Professional!, Dean Spade
Introduction: Transgender Issues and the Law, Dean Spade
Keynote Address, Dean Spade
Medicaid Policy & Gender-Confirming Healthcare for Trans People: An Interview with Advocates, Dean Spade
On (Cr)edibility: Why Food in the United States May Never be Safe, Denis Stearns
Submissions from 2009
Critical Error: Courts’ Refusal to Recognize Intentional Race Discrimination Findings as Constitutional Facts, Bryan Adamson
Asking Jurors to Do the Impossible: A Response to Peter Tiersma, Janet Ainsworth
International Judicial Affairs, Robert Alsdorf
Knocked Down Again: An East L.A. Story on the Geography of Color and Colors, Steven W. Bender
Calling your Bluff: How Prosecutors and Defense Attorneys Adapt Pleas Bargaining Strategies to Increased Formalization, Deirdre Bowen
Ethics as Self-Transcendence: Legal Education, Faith, and an Ethos of Justice, Patrick Brown
Richard Delgado and the Politics of Citation, Robert S. Chang
Half-Full, Half-Empty? Asian American Electoral ‘Presence’ in 2008, Robert S. Chang and Keith Aoki
Democratizing the Courts: How an Amicus Brief Helped Organize the Asian American Community to Support Marriage Equality, Robert S. Chang and Karin Wang
Secrecy and Democratic Decisions, Mark A. Chinen
Marks of Rectitude, Margaret Chon
Recovering Access: Rethinking the Structure of Federal Civil Rulemaking, Brooke Coleman
Crossover, Richard Delgado
Liberal McCarthyism and the Origins of Critical Race Theory, Richard Delgado
The Classic Rule of Faith and Credit, David Engdahl
Environmental Impact Assessment in Post-Colonial Societies: Reflections on the Proposed Expansion of the Panama Canal, Carmen Gonzalez
Foreword, Christian Halliburton
How Privacy Killed Katz: A Tale of Cognitive Freedom and the Property of Personhood as Fourth Amendment Norm, Christian Halliburton
Sharing Stories: Narrative Lawyering in Bench Trials, Paul Holland
The Path to Profitability: Reinvigorating the Neglected Phase of Merger Analysis, Jack Kirkwood
Cluster Introduction: Space, Subordination and Political Subjects, Tayyab Mahmud
Externships for Millennial Generation Law Students: Bridging the Generation Gap, Susan McClellan
A Tragedy of the Commons: Property Rights Issues in Shanghai Historic Residences, Kara Phillips and Amy Sommers
Voice, Self, and Persona in Legal Writing, Chris Rideout
Transcript: Workshop on the Future of the Legal Course Book, Edward Rubin, Kellye Testy, Ronald Collins, and David M. Skover
Introduction: Notes Towards an Alternate Vision of the Judicial Role, Andrew M. Siegel
Electrified Law: A Brief Introduction to the Workshop on the Future of the Legal Course Book, David M. Skover
Documenting Gender, Dean Spade
Trans Law Reform Strategies, Co-Optation, and the Potential for Transformative Change, Dean Spade
Trans Politics on a Neoliberal Landscape, Dean Spade
Stories Absent from the Courtroom: Responding to Domestic Violence in the Context of HIV and AIDS, Jane Stoever
Submissions from 2008
Remedial Approaches to Human Rights Violations: The Inter-American Court of Human Rights and Beyond, Tom Antkowiak
The Enforceability of Default Interest in Real Estate Mortgages, Steven W. Bender
The Parent Trap: Differential Familial Power in Same-Sex Families, Deirdre Bowen
John Calmore’s America, Robert S. Chang and Catherine Smith
The Celotex Initial Burden Standard and an Opportunity to “Revivify” Rule 56, Brooke Coleman
The Poetry of Law, Sidney Delong
Unlocking the Secrets of Highly Successful Legal Writing Students, Anne Enquist
Squatters, Pirates, and Entrepreneurs: Is Informality the Solution to the Urban Housing Crisis?, Carmen Gonzalez
Revisiting the Rules of Evidence and Procedure in Adversarial Immigration Proceedings, Won Kidane
The Terrorism Exception to Asylum: Managing the Uncertainty in Status Determination, Won Kidane
Controlling Above-Cost Predation: An Alternative to Weyerhaeuser and Brooke Group, Jack Kirkwood
The Fundamental Goal of Antitrust: Protecting Consumers, Not Increasing Efficiency, Jack Kirkwood
Selected Commentary, Seattle University Law Review
You are Not in Kansas Anymore: Orientation Programs Can Help Students Fly Over the Rainbow, Paula Lustbader
Immunity for Hire: How the Same-Actor Doctrine Sustains Discrimination in the Contemporary Workplace, Natasha Martin
Washington's Way II: The Burden of Enforcing Growth Management in the Crucible of the Courts and Hearings Boards, Henry W. McGee, Jr. and Brock Howell
Did Harvard Get It Right?, Laurel Oates
Environmental Justice in the Tribal Context: A Madness to EPA's Method, Catherine O’Neill
Theology in Public Reason and Legal Discourse: A Case for the Preferential Option for the Poor, Russell Powell
In Memoriam: Joseph M. Williams, Chris Rideout
Storytelling, Narrative Rationality, and Legal Persuasion, Chris Rideout