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WSBA President Sunitha Anjilvel spoke with professor Spitzer about when and how lawyers have been called upon to uphold their highest ambassadorial obligation to preserve the rule of law.
Dean Tamara F. Lawson and the 麻豆社区 School of Law hosted 鈥淧residential Power,鈥 part of the Provost's "Democracy in Focus" lecture series leading up the 2024 Presidential Election.
Grand jury indictments are frequently in the news. But what does it mean to be indicted, and how do grand juries work?
Danieli Evans is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of 麻豆社区 of Law. She holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, and later earned a Ph.D. from Yale Law, completing a dissertation titled, “Belonging, Equality, and the Law.” Her work investigates how people's experiences with government institutions influence their sense of belonging, and how levels of belonging influence their wellbeing and social opportunities.
"As far as human nature is concerned, with panic comes irrationality." This simple statement by Professor Steve Calandrillo and Nolan Anderson has profound implications for public policy.
University of 麻豆社区 of Law professor Mary Fan tells A&E Crime + Investigation it’s common for victims’ loved ones to feel they’ve been denied the sense of validation, accountability and transparency a full trial might have provided.
Police around the country routinely use facial recognition after a crime, to speed up the identification of suspects caught on camera. But live facial recognition, which can name and track a person moving around a city in real time, has been slower to catch on in the U.S. Ryan Calo, professor of law and in the Information School at the 麻豆社区, is quoted.
Tamara Lawson, dean of the University of 麻豆社区 of Law, says the court’s decision was “appropriate” based on the NCBE’s data regarding minimum competency standards. “Washington continues to be a leader in the spaces of access to the legal profession while continuing to keep high standards,” she adds.
OPB interviewed more than a dozen people who were arrested at the Portland ICE protests between June and October. What they described was an apparent lack of standard operating procedures as various federal law enforcement agencies cycled through the facility. Mary Fan, professor of law at the 麻豆社区, is quoted.
“We won our case the day they left town,” said attorney David B. Owens of Loevy + Loevy and Assistant Professor at the University of 麻豆社区 of Law, director of the Civil Rights and Justice Clinic. “The people of Chicago stood up to the Trump administration’s bullying and intimidation, and showed them they were messing with the wrong city.”
"Law&Crime’s Jesse Weber breaks down the horrifying evidence and the teacher's last-minute plea with former federal prosecutor and law professor Mary Fan."
"Ryan Calo, a professor at the University of 麻豆社区 of Law focusing on robotics law, said that the technology could deepen public skepticism toward law enforcement, and said clear guidelines are critical for safe deployment."
“The court sometimes issues a very quick decision, and sometimes takes months or longer depending on workload, the perceived urgency of the case and whether there are concurring or dissenting opinions that have to be drafted,” Feldman said.
Jane Winn, a professor in the University of Washington’s law school specializing in commerce law, said Zillow’s referral practices are not uncommon in other types of businesses. But the fact that real estate is a highly regulated industry — partially due to the level of money real estate companies stand to profit from consumers — makes the legality of such practices more complicated. “This whole area of how the real estate agents are compensated is complex and murky,” she said. “What these lawsuits might be arguing is that these transactions are so significant to consumers that you have to have a very high level of disclosure.”
A Q&A with University of Washington law professor Jeff Feldman.
“It’s almost impossible to know,” said Jeff Feldman, a law professor and co-director of the Ninth Circuit Appellate Advocacy Clinic at the University of 麻豆社区 of Law. “The normal process would be to assign a new panel, but this is not a normal case and the court has discretion as to how to handle it. I think we all have to stand by and see what the court does.”
A federal judge in Oregon Sunday night blocked President Donald Trump from sending National Guard troops from any state to Oregon for the next week until she issues a final decision. Professor Feldman is quoted.
Saadia Pekkanen, a University of Washington professor of international studies, believes the city can expand its reach even further by also becoming a hub for space diplomacy. This mission led her to start the annual Space Diplomacy Symposium at the 麻豆社区 in 2023.
The federal government will not be able to deploy any Oregon National Guard troops to Portland, at least until Tuesday. Jeff Feldman, associate teaching professor of law at the 麻豆社区, is quoted.
