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 1996
Critiquing Law Students’ Writing: What the Students Say Is Effective, Anne Enquist
Jim Beaver, The Founding Member Of This Law School, Thomas Holdych
Echo: Words Spoken In Memory Of James Beaver, Kelly Kunsch
James Edward Beaver-Beethovenist, Henry McGee
Tribute to James E. Beaver, John Mitchell
Assessing the Tax Administration Law of the People's Republic of China, Kara Phillips and Amy Sommers
Tribute to James E. Beaver, Mark Reutlinger
Custody and Conduct: How the Law Fails Lesbian and Gay Parents and Their Children, Julie Shapiro
Afterword: New "Truths" and the Old First Amendment, David Skover and Ronald Collins
The Dayton Peace Agreement: Constitutionalism and Ethnicity, Ronald Slye
Submissions from 1995
Youth Justice in a Unified Court: Response to Critics of Juvenile Court Abolition, Janet Ainsworth
Civil Forfeiture and the Eighth Amendment After Austin, James E. Beaver, Kit G. Narodick, and Joseph M. Wallin
Sentencing Guidelines and Prosecutorial Discretion, David Boerner
On the Need for Asian American Narratives in Law: Ethnic Specimens, Native Informants, Storytelling and Silences, Margaret Chon
On Comparing Apples and Oranges: The Judicial Clerkship Selection Process and the Medical Matching Model, Annette E. Clark
Preface, Annette E. Clark
Jacques of All Trades: Derrida, Lacan, and the Commercial Lawyer, Sidney DeLong
The Basis of the Spending Power, David E. Engdahl
Juvenile Detention Law in the District of Columbia: A Practitioner’s Guide, Paul Holland, John Copacino, and Milton Lee
Whatever Happened to the Right to Treatment: The Modern Quest for an Historical Promise, Paul Holland and Wallace Mlyniec
Dough, Re, Me: The Scale of Justice (A Descant for Entering First-Year Law Students), Kelly Kunsch
Freedom of Religion & Religious Minorities in Pakistan: A Study of Judicial Practice, Tayyab Mahmud
And Then Suddenly Seattle University Was On Its Way To A Parallel, Integrative Curriculum, John B. Mitchell, B. Hollingsworth, P. Clark, and R. Lidman
Human Rights in Theory and Practice: A Review of On Human Rights, Ronald Slye
Submissions from 1994
Oregon Consumer Protection: Outfitting Private Attorneys General for the Lean Years Ahead, Steven W. Bender
Standard of Review (State & Federal): A Primer, Kelly Kunsch
Tip Jars at the Law Library Reference Desk, Kelly Kunsch
Some Tips on Using Collaborative Exercises, Paula Lustbader
Jurisprudence of Successful Treason: Coup d'Etat & Common Law, Tayyab Mahmud
Redefining the Sixth Amendment, John B. Mitchell
Foreword: Understanding the Place of Limited Liability Companies in the Spectrum of Business Forms, Charles O'Kelley
When Words Fail Me: Diagramming the Rule Against Perpetuities, Mark Reutlinger
Appendix: The Sleeves From our Vest: Naming a Perpetuities Non-event, Mark Reutlinger and John Weaver
Legal Writing: A Revised View, Chris Rideout and Jill J. Ramsfield
Snake Pits and Unseen Actors: Constitutional Liability for Indirect Harm, Julie Shapiro
The Pornographic State, David Skover and Ronald Collins
DIANA: A Human Rights Database, Ronald Slye, Nicholas D. Finke, Taylor Fitchett, and Harold Koh
Equal Enforcement for All, George Van Cleve
Submissions from 1993
In a Different Register: The Pragmatics of Powerlessness in Police Interrogation, Janet Ainsworth
Rethinking Advocacy Training, Marilyn Berger and John Mitchell
Woman's Ghetto Within the Legal Profession, Marilyn Berger and Kari A. Robinson
Bringing Law to Sentencing, David Boerner
The Role of the Legislature in Guidelines Sentencing in the "Other Washington", David Boerner
Labor, Loyalty, and the Corporate Campaign, Melinda J. Branscomb
Toward an Asian American Legal Scholarship: Critical Race Theory, Post-structuralism, and Narrative Space, Robert S. Chang
A Selective Bibliography on the Endangered Species Act, Kristin Cheney
Postmodern 'Progress': Reconsidering the Copyright and Patent Power, Margaret Chon
Sex Stories: A Review of Sex and Reason, Margaret Chon
Abortion and the Pied Piper of Compromise, Annette E. Clark
Blackmailers, Bribe Takers, and the Second Paradox, Sidney DeLong
Praetorianism & Common Law in Post-Colonial Settings: Judicial Responses to Constitutional Breakdowns in Pakistan, Tayyab Mahmud
The Growth Management Revolution in Washington: Past, Present, and Future, Richard L. Settle and Charles G. Gavigan
Commerce & Communication, David Skover and Ronald Collins
The Psychology of First Amendment Scholarship: A Reply, David Skover and Ronald Collins
The Right to Health Care in the United States, Ken Wing
Submissions from 1992
Interpreting Sacred Texts: Preliminary Reflections on Constitutional Discourse in China, Janet Ainsworth
Speaking of Rights, Janet Ainsworth
Confronting Violence: In the Act and in the Word, David Boerner
Sexual Predator Law: The Nightmare in the Halls of Justice, Robert C. Boruchowitz
Introduction: Multidimensional Lawyering and Professional Responsibility, Margaret Chon
A Modern Proposal, Sidney DeLong
Introduction: Mexican Perspectives on Economic, Political and Cultural Implications of Free Trade, Henry McGee
What Went Wrong with the Warren Court's Conception of the Fourth Amendment?, John B. Mitchell
What Would Happen If Videotaped Depositions of Sexually Abused Children Were Routinely Admitted in Civil Trials? A Journey Through the Legal Process and Beyond , John B. Mitchell
Filling Gaps in the Close Corporation Contract: A Transaction Cost Analysis, Charles O'Kelley
Opting In and Out of Fiduciary Duties in Cooperative Ventures: Refining the So-Called Coasean Contract Theory, Charles O'Kelley
Economics and the Environment: Trading Debt and Technology for Nature, Catherine O'Neill and Cass R. Sunstein
So What's in a Name? A Rhetorical Reading of Washington's Sexually Violent Predators Act, J. Christopher Rideout
Sources of Security, Julie Shapiro
Submissions from 1991
Re-imagining Childhood and Reconstructing the Legal Order: The Case for Abolishing the Juvenile Court, Janet Ainsworth
: An Appraisal, Sidney DeLong
Research and Writing about Legal Writing: A Foreword from the Editor, Chris Rideout
Community Institution Building: A Response to the Limits of Litigation in Addressing the Problem of Homelessness, Ronald Slye
Revitalizing Public Interest Lawyering in the 1990's: The Story of One Effort to Address the Problem of Homelessness, Ronald Slye, Rebecca Arbogast, Roger L. Barnett, and Leslie Kim Treiger
The Changing Intersection of Environmental Auditing, Environmental Law and Enforcement Policy, George Van Cleve
Preface, Kenneth R. Wing
Submissions from 1990
Individual Negotiation of Warranty Disclaimers: An Economic Analysis of an Assumedly Market Enhancing Rule, Thomas J. Holdych and George Ferrell
The Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon: Law, Politics, and International Cooperation, Henry McGee and Kurt Zimmerman
The Implied Termination of Community Property Agreements Upon Permanent Separation, William Oltman
The First Amendment in an Age of Paratroopers, David Skover and Ronald Collins
Navigating the Shoals of ‘Use’ Immunity and Secret International Enterprises in Major Congressional Investigations: Lessons of the Iran-Contra Affair, George Van Cleve and Charles Tiefer
Submissions from 1989
Testimonial Consistency: The Hobgoblin of the Federal False Declaration Statute, Sidney DeLong
The Efficiency of a Disgorgement as a Remedy for Breach of Contract, Sidney DeLong
Statutory Compilations of Washington, Kelly Kunsch
Current Theories on Expert and Novice Thinking: A Full Faculty Considers the Implications for Legal Education, John B. Mitchell
Sexual Harassment Cases and the Law of Evidence: A Proposed Rule, Catherine O'Neill
Regulatory Taking Doctrine in Washington: Now You See It, Now You Don't, Richard L. Settle
The Senator and the Constitution: An Interview with Orrin G. Hatch, David Skover and Ronald Collins
History of the University of Puget Sound School of Law, Anita M. Steele
Introduction (Special Health Law Issue), Ken Wing
Submissions from 1988
Direct Broadcast Satellite: A Proposal for a Global/Regional System, Bryan Adamson and James Hsuing
Tribute to Andrew Walkover, James E. Bond
Memorial to Professor Andrew Walkover, Paula Lustbader
Tribute to Andrew Walkover, John Mitchell
Tribute to Andrew Walkover, Christopher Rideout
Reconstituting 'Original Intent:' A Constitutional Law Encyclopedia for the Next Century, David Skover
The Future of Liberal Legal Scholarship, David Skover and Ronald Collins
The Constitutionality of the Solicitation or Control of Third-Country Funds for Foreign Policy Purposes by United States Officials without Congressional Approval, George Van Cleve
Submissions from 1987
Determining Customary International Law Relative to the Conduct of Hostilities in Non-international Armed Conflicts, James E. Bond, William J. Fenrick, Hans-Peter Gasser, and Waldemar A. Solf