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 1997
Fostering Diversity in the Legal Profession: A Model for Preparing Minority and Other Non-Traditional Students for Law School, Lorraine K. Bannai and Marie Eaton
Direct Democracy and Distrust: The Relationship between Language Law Rhetoric and the Language Vigilantism Experience, Steven W. Bender
Foreword: Toward a Radical and Plural Democracy, Robert S. Chang
Racial Cross-Dressing, Robert S. Chang
Centering the Immigrant in the Inter/National Imagination, Robert S. Chang and Keith Aoki
Foreword: Citizenship and Its Discontents - Centering the Immigrant in the Inter/National Imagination (Part II), Robert S. Chang, Keith Aoki, and Ibrahim Gassama
Nothing and Everything: Race, Romer, and (Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual) Rights, Robert S. Chang and Jerome Culp
Acting Upon Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics by Lisa Lowe- A Review Colloquy, Margaret Chon
Being Between: A Review of CHINESE WOMEN TRAVERSING DIASPORA: MEMOIRS, ESSAYS, AND POETRY, Margaret Chon
Introduction, Margaret Chon
Radical Plural Democracy and the Internet, Margaret Chon
The New Requirement of Enforcement Reliance in Commercial Promissory Estoppel: Section 90 as Catch-22, Sidney DeLong
An Agnostic's Bible Contract and Related Obligation: Theory, Doctrine, and Practice, 3d Edition by Robert S. Summers and Robert A. Hillman, Sidney W. DeLong
Keynote Colloquy: Finding Justice in the Internet Dimension, Hon. Alex Kozinski
Diogenes Wanders the Superhighway: A Proposal for Authentication of Publicly Disseminated Documents on the Internet, Kelly Kunsch
Construction Sites, Building Types, and Bridging Gaps: A Cognitive Theory of the Learning Progression of Law Students, Paula Lustbader
From Dreams to Reality: The Emerging Role of Law School Academic Support, Paula Lustbader
Migration, Identity & the Colonial Encounter, Tayyab Mahmud
A Clinical Textbook?, John B. Mitchell
Beating the Odds: Reading Strategies of Law Students Admitted Through Alternative Admissions Programs, Laurel Oates
Education's Promise, Laurel Oates and Sam Wineberg
Single-Sex Education After United States v. Virginia, Catherine O’Neill
Socio-Economic Rights and the South African Transition: The Role of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Ronald Slye
Submissions from 1996
Categories and Culture: On the 'Rectification of Names' in Comparative Law, Janet Ainsworth
On Seeing Chinese Law from a Chinese Point of View: An Appreciative Look at the Scholarly Career of Professor William Jones, Janet Ainsworth
Consumer Protection for Latinos: Overcoming Language Fraud and English Only in the Marketplace, Steven W. Bender
The Use of Offender Characteristics In Guideline Sentencing: A Laboratory Report From Washington State, David Boerner
Eulogy for Jim Beaver February 29, 1996, James E. Bond
Tribute to James E. Beaver, Melinda J. Branscomb
Passion and the Asian American Legal Scholar, Robert S. Chang
Reverse Racism!: Affirmative Action, the Family, and the Dream that Is America, Robert S. Chang
The End of Innocence or Politics after the Fall of the Essential Subject, Robert S. Chang
The Nativist's Dream of Return, Robert S. Chang
Chon on Chen on Chang, Margaret Chon
New Wine Bursting From Old Bottles: Collaborative Internet Art, Joint Works, and Entrepreneurship, Margaret Chon
Autonomy and Death, Annette E. Clark
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