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“What’s Past Is Prologue”: The Story of the Sale of the University of Puget Sound School of Law to Seattle University
Get PDFWhen the Seattle University Law Review editorial staff invited me to write an updated history of the Seattle University School of Law in honor of our 50th anniversary, I planned to start the narrative with the year 1989, which was where the prior written history (authored by former Law Library Director Anita Steele and published by the Law Review) had left off. It also happens to be the year when I graduated from this law school and joined the tenure-track faculty, so 1989 seemed like a propitious place to begin. However, as I began to do the research necessary to cover the ensuing 33 years of the school’s history, I was drawn over and over again to one particular part of our story: the announcement in 1993 that the University of Puget Sound had sold its law school to Seattle University. In conducting my research, I came to realize that as others from the law school have moved on, retired, or passed away, I am the lone remaining faculty member who was here for that remarkable period in our history. Thus, in commemoration of the law school’s half-century mark of existence, I have chosen to travel back in time to the defining moment on November 8, 1993, when everything changed. While 1972 marked the law school’s founding, the announcement of the sale in 1993 was the critical inflection point that started us on a difficult but fascinating journey to where we are in this, our 50th year: a vibrant, urban, Jesuit, justice-focused law school, located in the heart of Seattle and at the heart of Seattle University
Benes Z. Aldana
No full textBenes Aldana \u2791 (\u2794 JD, University of Washington School of Law) serves as the eleventh president and CEO of The National Judicial College (NJC). Prior to joining the NJC in 2017, he served for 22 years in the United States Coast Guard in various leadership roles, retiring as a captain (O-6) and as the first Asian Pacific American to serve as chief trial judge of a U.S. military branch. Under his visionary and transformative leadership, NJC has seen unprecedented growth, innovative program development, and a record-breaking enrollment surge in 2020 through online programming responsive to contemporary challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic and social justice concerns. His initiatives - such as the first-of-its-kind Judicial Academy for aspiring judges and courses addressing contemporary issues like artificial intelligence, climate science, and anti-racism – highlight his dedication to evolving judicial education to meet modern challenges.
Judge Meng Li Che \u2701 was appointed by Gov. Jay Inslee to fill a vacant position on Washington’s Court of Appeals bench in 2022 and was elected to the position earlier this month. Judge Che grew up in Tacoma in an immigrant family and worked in the family’s restaurant starting in her early childhood, along with her sister and two brothers. After graduating from the University of San Diego, she returned to Washington and in 2001 earned her law degree at Seattle University School of Law. While Judge Che is also a member of the California Bar, she chose to center her legal career in Washington and spent seven years as a public defender in Pierce County before moving to the Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals, where she attained the position of assistant chief Industrial Insurance Appeals judge. There, she presided over issues of workers’ compensation and workplace safety. She is a member of The Hon. Robert J. Bryan American Inn of Court, a senior fellow with American Leadership Forum Tacoma Pierce County, and is a long-serving leader in her church’s Children’s Ministry program.https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/luminaries/1003/thumbnail.jp
Toward a Tribal Role in Groundwater Management
Get PDFThis Article considers the Agua Caliente groundwater litigation a decade since its inception. It recounts the most recent developments in the case, notably the move to mediation and the strategic work that brought the water districts to the table. The Article places this monumental case in context: in the history of colonization and tribal-state relations, the present climate crisis, and the State of California’s groundwater management regime. The Article ultimately outlines the present opportunity to reimagine the role of tribes in groundwater management
Case Law on American Indians
Get PDFAn update on American Indian case law from September 2021-October 2022
A New Right is the Wrong Tactic: Bring Legal Actions Against States for Internet Shutdowns Instead of Working Towards a Human Right to the Internet (Part 1)
Get PDFA New Right is the Wrong Tactic: Bring Legal Actions Against States for Internet Shutdowns Instead of Working Towards a Human Right to the Internet (Part 1) is the first of a two-part series dealing with an increasingly prevalent threat to human rights: State-sanctioned Internet shutdowns. Part 1 details the current tactics and impacts of Internet shutdowns and which human rights are most likely to be violated by or during a shutdown. Part 2 will address the deficiencies of advocating for Internet access to be a recognized human right as a means of combatting shutdowns. Despite the popularity of this proposed solution, the harms of Internet shutdowns are better addressed through traditional legal avenues, such as bringing claims against the sanctioning state
Policing Veterans: What the Veterans Affairs Police Can Illustrate About the Policing of Disability in America
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December 16, 2023
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