UW School of Law

Three-minute legal tips: Community Property vs Equitable Distribution

Terry Price, a family law expert, discusses how martial assets could be divided during a divorce in community property versus an equitable distribution state.

Bridge-building in the time of COVID-19

UW Law Teaching Professor Theo Myhre is the recipient of the 2021 University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award, one of the highest honors a faculty can receive from the UW

Listen: No time to sit on the sidelines

Guest: Elisabeth Frost, Partner at Perkins Coie

What's keeping democracy experts up most at night? An overturned election

Amid all the voting changes in state laws, giving more power to partisan officials to overturn an election is at the top of the list of concerns. Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, is quoted. (Source: NBC News)

Three-minute Legal Tips: Capital Gains Tax

Professor Scott Schumacher discusses Washington’s new capital gains tax and how it will affect average Washington residents.

UW Law remembers The Hon. Walter T. McGovern, ‘50

Judge McGovern served as the Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. He spent his entire legal career practicing in Seattle, King County and Western Washington.