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Lis Frost, J.D. ’07, explains the Bost v. Illinois State Board of Elections Supreme Court case and its potential implications for mail‑in ballot rules and future elections.
UW Law sends condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Judge Carolyn Dimmick, a local legend in her own right.
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Justice Melody is a native of Spokane, a Double Dawg and a former Gates Scholar who graduated first in her class.
UW Law and Jentera collaborated in Jakarta, Indonesia on a 10-day short legal course.
The Global Business Law Institute is pleased to share that the article “Exploring the Future of Global ESG – Disclosures and Reporting Requirements” was published in the Global Governance, Compliance & Integrity Yearbook 2025.
Please join us at the UW School of Law on Sept. 4 and 5, 2025, for our 38th Annual Indian Law Symposium, hosted and presented by the Native American Law Center.
Thoughts from a recently appointed alumnus to the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility.
Dimmick, the first woman on the Washington Supreme Court and the second-ever in Western Washington to be elevated to the federal bench, died Dec. 24. in Seattle. She was 96.
A Seattle local, Dimmick was born Carolyn Joyce Reaber and attended the University of Washington. She was among the first women to graduate from the UW School of Law in 1953, despite being discouraged from applying by an undergraduate adviser who told her she would take a spot from a man.
A Seattle native, Dimmick (then Carolyn Joyce Reaber) attended the University of Washington and was one of the first women to graduate from the UW School of Law, in 1953. Her undergraduate advisor had discouraged her from attending law school, saying she would take a spot from a male who needed it.
Melody earned two degrees from the UW: her bachelor’s degree in Law, Societies & Justice and Spanish as well as her J.D. from the UW School of Law, when she graduated at the top of her law class.
An Illinois native, Masse attended law school at the University of Washington and has been in the Seattle area since departing Montlake. She is a passionate soccer fan and former player. Additionally, Masse has been involved in the local youth soccer landscape, having coached Rocket 88, a boys’ premier soccer team for the Woodland Soccer Club in Seattle from 2001-2007 and now cheering for her sons’ Seattle United and Seattle Youth Soccer Association teams.
Eli Sanders contributed in-depth research to this story as part of the Technology, Law, and Public Policy Clinic at the University of Washington School of Law.
UW law students, professors, alumni, and various professionals gathered in the Burke Museum Feb. 22 to celebrate diversity within the field of law. The event was largely organized by the UW School of Law’s Women’s Law Caucus (WLC), an organization that aims to encourage gender equality and support women of color at UW Law.
A product of the Central District, Garfield High School, and UW’s law school, the biracial Harrell could have continued his career as a successful lawyer and gone anywhere in life. Instead, he has chosen to be a public servant in Seattle, where in 2021 he became the city’s first Japanese American and second African American mayor after an impressive city council tenure.
“It is now clear going into the new year that the FTC is going to incorporate model deletion into privacy security and AI related orders,” Hutson said. “Reasonable algorithm fairness practices are going to be important to organization to undertake if they wish to avoid model deletion.”
As Jevan Hutson and Ben Winters describe in their legal analysis, the FTC has ordered model disgorgement in five separate instances: In the Matter of Everalbum, In the Matter of Cambridge Analytica, USA v. Kurbo Inc. and WW International, FTC v. Ring, USA v. Edmodo.
