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Professor Amanda Stephen’s recent Washington State Bar News article, C-R-A-C: (Almost) Easy as 1-2-3, explains how CRAC can make legal analysis clearer and easier to follow.
Senior associate dean and professor of law Elizabeth Pendo has received one of the nation’s highest honors in health law education.
Toshiko Takenaka's forthcoming book offers a comparative analysis of U.S. and European patent law and explores the impact of emerging technologies on patent systems.
Professor Ryan Calo co-authored this practice-oriented guide to filing and defending lawsuits based on breaches of customer data.
Co-authored by Professor Jevan Hutson, this article audits a widely downloaded AI training dataset and finds significant quantities of personally identifiable information, using these results to analyze legal risks and reconsider how “publicly available” data is defined.
This drew demands from the state’s three law deans, Tony Varona, the dean of the Seattle University School of Law; Tamara Lawson, the dean of the University of Washington School of Law; and Linda D. Jellum, the interim dean of the Gonzaga University School of Law, each noting the cancellation’s weighty toll on aspiring attorneys.
A lawsuit that blamed Seattle’s emergency medical service for a 911 caller’s nightmarish wait for an ambulance and her subsequent death has been settled out of public view and before the case could reach trial. Bitter Lake resident Pamela Hogan waited more than 10 hours for an ambulance in 2022 and died allegedly without ever receiving care. Steve Calandrillo, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
Judicial-ethics rules bar candidates from saying how they would rule on a case that could come before them. Hugh Spitzer, a retired University of Washington law professor and a leading authority on Culliton, told Villeneuve it isn’t possible to predict how the justices would rule.
University of Washington law professor Ryan Calo does not believe a criminal case would be likely to succeed. "The company or individual would have to be at least reckless," he said, explaining they would "be substantially certain the crime would occur and build or prompt the system anyway."
“Any attorney knows the work that goes into taking the bar exam: the sacrifice, the dedication, the time away from family and friends, the money,” said Carrie Sanford, director of academic success at University of Washington School of Law. “Our students didn’t get their opportunity.”
“We won’t know whether the jury’s verdict will stand until we see what post-trial motions (Nike) files, if any, and how they are resolved,” Jeff Feldman, a professor at the University of Washington School of Law, said in an email.
“These exam administration failures today were not minor, in fact they were unprecedented and catastrophic, and therein cause grave concerns to fairness and equity,” University of Washington Law School Dean Tamara Lawson said in the school’s petition sent Tuesday night.
Like Varona, Tamara F. Lawson, University of Washington School of Law dean and professor, and Linda D. Jellum, Gonzaga University School of Law interim dean and professor, stressed the financial and mental toll the cancellation exacted on their graduates in their own letters addressed to Chief Justice Debra Stephens and the other justices on Wednesday.
Applicants, and the deans of law schools at the University of Washington, Seattle University and Gonzaga University, have asked the Washington Supreme Court to grant applicants diploma privilege, which would allow graduates of accredited law schools to practice law without passing the exam.
“Where is that hour of daylight the most beneficial? I think it’s a pretty intuitive answer — when people are awake to use it,” said Steve Calandrillo, a law professor at the University of Washington who has studied the economics of daylight saving time.
A policy change at the Vancouver Police Department continues to spark debate after an internal memo obtained by KATU News outlined new procedures for handling multiple low-level offenses. David Garavito, assistant professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
Optionion: "California's attempt to make state government use of AI more transparent was an interesting experiment that predictably failed." Professor Calo is cited.
"California's AI transparency law let state agencies hide high-risk systems affecting housing, health care and benefits, experts say." Professor Calo is cited.
Roger Rogoff is the new U.S. Attorney in the Western District of Washington. Or he was. He started this morning, but was fired by President Trump less than an hour after being sworn in. Elizabeth Porter, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
While stopping the time change can be unpopular in agricultural regions, University of Washington Law Professor Steve Calandrillo said the origins of the time change actually come from a European World War II-era effort to conserve energy.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Sunshine Protection Act to make Daylight Saving Time permanent year-round. Steve Calandrillo, professor of law at the UW, is mentioned.
