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LL.B. magna cum laude 1995, Tel Aviv University, Israel LL.M. with distinction 1998, Tulane University S.J.D. 2002, Tulane University
Comparative Law — Criminal Law — Criminal Law and Procedure — Gender and the Law — Human Trafficking — Legal Philosophy and Theory — Legal Research and Writing — LGBTQ Rights
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Dr. Dana Raigrodski is an Associate Teaching Professor and Director of the General Law LL.M. program at the University of Washington School of Law. She is also the Director of the Summer Institute in Transnational Law and Practice. She serves as a Commissioner on the Washington Supreme Court Gender & Justice Commission and serves on the Executive Committee of the International Practice Section of the WSBA. Dr. Raigrodski's scholarship and research interests examine human trafficking, migration and globalization, criminal procedure and jurisprudence, critical feminist and race legal theories, and comparative legal studies. She teaches courses on transnational law and globalization, American legal system and research methods, and on gender, race, and the law.
Prior to joining academia, Dr. Raigrodski practiced law for the Israeli Defense Forces Military Advocate General Staff Command in Tel Aviv, serving as a military prosecutor and legal counselor. She holds an LL.B. magna cum laude, from Tel Aviv University and an LL.M. with distinction and an SJD from Tulane University. She is a member of the New York and the Israel Bar.
As part of the ongoing “Spotlight on Sections” series, AALS sat down with the leadership of the Section on Post-Graduate Legal Education, chair Dana Raigrodski and Chair-Elect Terry Price.
Survivors of sexual assault and human trafficking may only be able to answer these questions years or decades after the abuse occurred, experts say. But a clock is running. In Washington state, trafficking victims have just three years to seek civil compensation for the crimes and damage suffered. And then the door closes. The time frame is among the shortest in the nation. Other states have lengthened the civil statutes of limitation for these crimes, but Washington hasn’t addressed them in two decades. On Friday, a King County judge will determine whether Washington’s law should stand or if the limit should be suspended for three women who say they were sexually assaulted, beaten, confined and trafficked by Solomon “Raz” Simone, a Seattle hip-hop artist. Dana Raigrodski, associate teaching professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
Dana Raigrodski, a professor at the University of Washington School of Law, who also sits on the Washington State Supreme Court Gender and Justice Commission, said state courts haven’t tested the statute of limitations law enough to set a precedent. Yet, she says, the intent of the state’s trafficking laws are meant to be broadly interpreted in favor of victims.
