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 2009
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
Focus on Batson: Let the Cameras Roll, Mimi Samuel
From Bad to Worse?: Some Early Speculation About the Roberts Court & the Constitutional Fate of the Poor, Andy Siegel
Nuremberg’s Legacy Continues: The Nuremberg Trials’ Influence on Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts, Gwynne Skinner
Corporations, Veils, and International Criminal Liability, Ronald Slye
Documenting Gender, Dean Spade
Introduction, Kellye Y. Testy
Submissions from 2007
Past Reflections, Future Insights: African Asylum Law and Policy in Historical Perspective, Edwin Odhiambo Abuya
Reinforcing Refugee Protection in the Wake of the War on Terror, Edwin Odhiambo Abuya
A Thousand Humiliations: What Brown Could Not Do, Bryan Adamson
Federal Rule Of Civil Procedure 52(A) As An Ideological Weapon?, Bryan Adamson
Moiwana Village v. Suriname: A Portal into Recent Jurisprudential Developments of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Thomas Antkowiak
Voting Rights in California: 1982-2006, Joaquin G. Avila, Eugene Lee, and Terry Ao
Old Hate in New Bottles: Privatizing, Localizing, and Bundling Anti-Spanish and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment in the 21st Century, Steven W. Bender
Afterword: The Race Question in LatCrit Theory and Asian American Jurisprudence, Robert S. Chang and Neil Gotanda
Marketing Law Libraries: Strategies and Techniques in the Digital Age, Kristin Cheney
Alaska Initiatives and Referenda, Tina Ching
Arizona Initiatives and Referenda, Tina Ching
Intellectual Property from Below: Copyright and Capability for Education, Margaret Chon
Slouching Towards Development in International Intellectual Property, Margaret Chon, Denis Borges Barbosa, and Andrés Moncayo von Hase
Tax and Economic Policy Responses to the Medicaid Long-Term Care Financing Crisis: A Behavioral Economics Approach, Diane Lourdes Dick
The Restricted Gift Lifecycle, or, What Comes Around Goes Around, John K. Eason
The Contract Thesis of the Federal Spending Power, David Engdahl
Letting Katz Out of the Bag: Cognitive Freedom and Fourth Amendment Fidelity, Christian Halliburton
The Constitutional and Statutory Framework Organizing the Office of the United States Attorney, Christian M. Halliburton
Fishery Conservation and Management Act Reauthorization: “A” for Effort, “C” for Substance, Madeline Kass
Combating Corruption Through International Law in Africa: A Comparative Analysis, Won Kidane and Tom Snider
The Robinson-Patman Act and Consumer Welfare: Has Volvo Reconciled Them?, John B. Kirkwood
Geography and International Law: Towards a Postcolonial Mapping, Tayyab Mahmud
Reality, Theory, and a Make-Believe World: The Fundamentalism of the "Free" Market, Daniel Bonilla Maldonado, Collin Crawford, and Carmen G. Gonzalez
Washington's Way: Dispersed Enforcement of Growth Management Controls and the Crucial Role of NGOs, Henry W. McGee, Jr.
Train Wreck at the Justice Department: An Eyewitness Account, John McKay
Chatting with the Lady in the Grocery Store About Hernandez v. Robles, the New York Same-Sex Marriage Case, John B. Mitchell
Using Global Law to Teach Domestic Advocacy, John B. Mitchell
No Mud Pies: Risk Avoidance as Risk Regulation, Catherine O’Neill
Protecting the Tribal Harvest: The Right to Catch and Consume Fish, Catherine O’Neill
The Enron Trial Drama: A New Case for Stakeholder Theory, Russell Powell
Corporations and Political Speech: Should Speech Equal Money?, David Skover, Lisa Danetz, Martin Redish, and Scott Thomas
Submissions from 2006
The H’aint in the (School) House: The Interest Convergence Paradigm in State Legislatures and School Finance Reform, Bryan Adamson
Linguistics as a Knowledge Domain in the Law, Janet Ainsworth
Latinos and American Law: Landmark Supreme Court Cases, Steven W. Bender
The Adventures of Blackness in Western Culture: An Epistolary Exchange on Old and New Identity Wars, Robert S. Chang and Adrienne D. Davis
On Lawyers and Good Samaritans, Mark A. Chinen
Intellectual Property and the Development Divide, Margaret Chon
The Right to Die: The Broken Road from Quinlan to Schiavo, Annette E. Clark
Policy, Logic, and Persuasion in the Evolving Realm of Trust Asset Protection, John K. Eason
Deconstructing the Mythology of Free Trade: Critical Reflections on Comparative Advantage, Carmen Gonzalez
Markets, Monocultures, and Malnutrition: Agricultural Trade Policy Through an Environmental Justice Lens, Carmen Gonzalez
Schooling Miranda: Policing Interrogation in the Twenty-First Century Schoolhouse, Paul Holland
A Conversation Among Deans on Results: Legal Education, Institutional Change, and a Decade of Gender Studies, W. H. Knight, K. Bartlett, and E. Rubin
The Trials of Leschi, Nisqually Chief, Kelly Kunsch
Civil Gideon: A Human Right Elsewhere in the World, Raven Lidman
Civil Gideon as a Human Right: Is the U.S. Going to Join Step with the Rest of the Developed World?, Raven Lidman
To Teach Justice we must Create a Learning Environment That Embodies its Principles, Paula Lustbader
Postcoloniality and Mythologies of Civil(ized) Society, Tayyab Mahmud
My Father, John Locke, and Assisted Suicide: The Real Constitutional Right, John B. Mitchell
Leveling the Playing Field: Helping Students Succeed by Helping Them Learn to Read as Expert Lawyers, Laurel Oates
The Entrepreneur and the Theory of the Modern Corporation, Charles O'Kelley
The Perils of Risk Avoidance, Catherine O'Neill