Recent Faculty Scholarship

Jennifer S. Fan, Startup Biases, 56 UC Davis L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2023).

Jennifer S. Fan, Woke Capital Revisited, 46 Seattle U. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2023).

Robert W. Gomulkiewicz, Considering a Right to Repair Software, 38 Berkeley Tech. L. J. (forthcoming 2023).

Lisa Marshall Manheim, Electoral Sandbagging, 13 UC Irvine L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2023).

Zahr K. Said, Jury-Related Errors in Copyright, 98 Ind. L. J. __ (forthcoming 2023).

Michael Hatfield and Michelle Kwon, A Study of Tax Lawyers Discussing Duties, 76 Tax Law. ___ (forthcoming 2022).

Toshiko Takenaka, Unravelling Inventorship, 21 Chi.-Kent J. Intell. Prop. ___ (forthcoming 2022).

Lauren Sancken, Andrea Rodgers, & Jennifer Marlow, The Injustice of 1.5 ?C–2 ?C: The Need for a Scientifically Based Standard of Fundamental Rights Protection in Constitutional Climate Change Cases, 40 Va. Env't L. J. ___ (forthcoming Fall 2022).

Jennifer S. Fan, Nontraditional Investors, 47 BYU L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2022).

Mary D. Fan, The Hidden Harms of Privacy Penalties, 56 U.C. Davis L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2022).

Peter Nicolas, Harmonizing Music Theory and Music Law, 107 Iowa L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2022).

Angélica Cházaro, Due Process Deportation, 97 N.Y.U. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2022).

Robert W. Gomulkiewicz, The Supreme Court’s Chief Justice of Intellectual Property Law, 22 Nev. L.J. (forthcoming 2022).

Rachael Paschal Osborn, From Loon Lake to Chuckanut Creek: The Rise & Fall of Environmental Values in Washington’s Water Code, Wash. J. Env’t L. & Pol'y (forthcoming Jan. 2021).

Jennifer S. Fan, The Landscape of Startup Corporate Governance in the Founder-Friendly Era, 18 N.Y.U. J. L. & Bus. 317-389 (2022).

Steve Calandrillo & Nolan Kobuke Anderson, Terrified by Technology: How Systemic Bias Distorts Legal and Regulatory Responses to Emerging Technology, 2022 U. Ill. L. Rev. 597-662 (2022).

David B. Owens, Violence Everywhere: How the Current Spectacle of Black Suffering, Police Violence, and the Violence of Judicial Interpretation Undermine the Rule of Law, 17 Stan. J. C.R. & C.L. 495-514 (2022).

Dongsheng Zang, Revolt Against the U.S. Hegemony: Judicial Divergence in Cyberspace, 39 Wis. Int'l L. J. 1-70 (2022).

Ryan Calo, Modeling Through, 71 Duke L.J. 1391-1423 (2021).

Xuan-Thao Nguyen, #MeToo Innovators: Disrupting the Race and Gender Code by Asian Americans in the Tech Industry, 28 Asian Am. L. J. 17–56 (2021).

Zahr K. Said, Attitudes Towards IP Present Among Seattle Craft Breweries, 52 U. Pac. L. Rev. 763-782 (2021).

Toshiko Takenaka, Breathing New Life into the German Utility Model System in the Industry 4.0 Era, 70 GRUR Int’l 621-32 (2021).

Mary D. Fan, The Right to Benefit from Big Data As a Public Resource, 96 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1438-1492 (2021).

Anita Ramasastry, Advisors or Enablers? Bringing Professional Service Providers into the Guiding Principles Fold, Bus. & Human Rts. J. 1-19 (2021).

Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Contract as Emergency Law, 30 Wash. Int’l L. J. 420–469 (2021).

Christine Cimini & Doug Smith, An Innovative Approach to Movement Lawyering, 35 Geo. Immigr. L.J. 431-512 (2021).

Hugh Spitzer & Andy Omara, Catalytic Courts and Enforcement of Constitutional Educational Funding Provisions, 49 Ga. J. Int’l & Comp. L. 45-82 (2021).

Toshiko Takenaka, Inventorship Standards for Biotechnology Inventions Under the U.S. and Japanese Patent Acts, Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition 23 pgs. (April 2021).

Ryan Calo & Danielle Keats Citron, The Automated Administrative State: A Crisis of Legitimacy, 70 Emory L. J. 797–845 (2021).

Lauren Sancken, Shweta Jayawardhan, & Brittany Wheeler, Climate Finance and the Marshall Islands: Options for Adaptation, Policy Brief of the Marshall Islands Climate and Migration Project 1-20 (University of Hawai’i at Manoa 2021)

Hugh D. Spitzer, "Unconstitutional Beyond a Reasonable Doubt"—A Misleading Mantra that Should be Gone for Good, 96 Wash. L. Rev. Online 1-22 (Mar. 1, 2021).

Toshiko Takenaka, The Role of the New Utility Model System in the Innovation Model of Industry 4.0, 58 Intell. Prop. L. Pol'y Stud. 1-34 (Mar. 2021).

Dongsheng Zang, Race and Representation: The Legislative Council in Hong Kong During the Reign of Queen Victoria, 30 Wash. Int'l L. J. 283-322 (2021).

Benjamin E. Berkman, Anna C. Mastroianni, Leila Jamal, Coleman Solis, Holly A. Taylor, & Sara Chandros Hull, The Ethics of Repurposing Previously Collected Research Biospecimens in an Infectious Disease Pandemic, 43 J. Ethics & Human Rsch. 1–17 (Feb. 23, 2021) (Early View—Online Version of Record before inclusion in an issue).

Toshiko Takenaka, The Doctrine of Equivalents and the Third Prong of the German Test: A Comparative Law Perspective, 123 GRUR (Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht)) 369-373 (Feb. 2021).

Michael Hatfield, The Rise of Law and the Fall of Circular 230: Tax Lawyer Professional Standards, 1985-2015, 24 Fla. Tax Rev. 828-930 (2021).

Lisa Marshall Manheim, Presidential Control of Elections, 74 Vand. L. Rev. 385-464 (2021).

Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Promoting Corporate Irresponsibility? Delaware as the Intellectual Property Holding State, 46 J. Corp. L. 717–750 (2021).

Robot Law II (Ryan Calo, Michael Froomkin & Kristen Thomasen, eds., Edward Elgar Publishing forthcoming ).

J. Stuart Showalter & Sallie Thieme Sanford, The Law of Healthcare Administration (10th ed., Health Admin. Press, forthcoming 2023).

Ryan Calo, Law and Technolpogy: A Methodical Approach (Oxford University Press forthcoming).

Zahr K. Said, Tort Law: A 21st-Century Approach (CALI eLangdell casebook series) (2d ed. forthcoming June 2022).

A Guide to Civil Procedure: Integrating Critical Legal Perspectives (Brooke Coleman, Suzette Malveaux, Portia Pedro, & Elizabeth Porter eds., N.Y.U. Press forthcoming May 2022).

Zahr K. Said, Tort Law: A 21st Century Approach (CALI eLangdell casebook series) (July 2021).

Lisa Marshall Manheim, Constitutional Law: Structures of Government (2021).

Zahr K. Said, Fables of Scarcity in IP, in Scarcity, Abundance, and Regulation (Deven Desai & Mark Lemley eds., Frontier Publishing, forthcoming 2023).

Zahr K. Said, Collegiality Costs: Trademark Scarcity and Beer Name Norms in Seattle’s Craft Brewing, in The Law and Economics of Trademark Law (Glynn Lunney ed., Elgar Press, forthcoming 2023).

Ryan Calo, Law Controlling Technology, in Living Together (Joshua Hall & Alice Kassens, eds., Institute for Humane Studies forthcoming 2022).

Mary D. Fan, The Reasonable Immigrant and the Fake Cop: Duress in Nwoye, in FEMINIST JUDGMENTS: REWRITTEN CRIMINAL LAW OPINIONS (Bennett Capers, Sarah Deer, Corey Rayburn Young, eds. forthcoming Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Jeff Feldman, Alaska, in Survey of Class Action Law 2022-2023, at ___ (American Bar Association Section of Litigation 2022).

Zahr K. Said, Law and Literature Methodologies in Intellectual Property, Ch. 23, pp. 361-372, in Handbook of Intellectual Property Research: Lenses, Methods, and Perspectives (Irene Calboli & Lilla Montagnani eds., Oxford University Press 2021).

Barbara Mack & Dana Raigrodski, Ch. 10, Commercial Sex and Exploitation, in 2021 Gender Justice Study 470-583 (Wash. St. Sup. Ct. Gender & Justice Comm'n 2021)

Jeff Feldman, Alaska, in Survey of Class Action Law 2021-2022, at ___ (American Bar Association Section of Litigation 2021).

Jennifer S. Fan, Understanding Startup Corporate Governance, The FinReg Blog (Global Financial Markets Center, Duke University School of Law) (July 11, 2022).

Hugh D. Spitzer, Intra-Governmental Disputes: An RPC Muddle, in Proceedings of the Washington State Association of Municipal Attorneys Spring Conference (2022). 23 pages.

Steve Calandrillo, 5 Ways Americans’ Lves Will Change if Congress Makes Daylight Saving Time Permanent, The Conversation (Apr. 5, 2022).

Ryan Calo, Chris Coward, Enma S. Spiro, Kate Starbird, & Jevin D. West, How Do You Solve a Problem Like Misinformation?, 7 (50) Science Advances 1 (Dec. 8, 2021).

David J.S. Ziff, Write to Counsel: From Anecdata to Data on Writing a Winning Brief, Wash. St. B. News, Dec. 7, 2021, at 20-22.

Ryan Calo, Artificial Intelligence and the Carousel of Soft Law, 2 IEEE Transactions on Tech. & Soc’y 171-74 (2021).

Benjamin S. Halasz, Write Introductions that Will Bedazzle Rather than Bore, Nw Law., Sept. 2021, at 22-24.

Sheryl Gordon McCloud, Dana Raigrodski, Sierra Rotakhina, & Kelley Amburgey-Richardson, 2021 Gender Justice Study (Wash. St. Sup. Ct. Gender & Justice Comm'n 2021). 1183 pages.

Hugh Spitzer, Put It In Writing: Washington Supreme Court Enhances Malpractice Insurance Disclosure to Clients, Nw Law., Sept. 2021, at 36-40.

Lauren E. Sancken, The Importance of Being Earnest: Writing an Effective Supplemental Authorities Letter, Wash. St. B. News, June 1, 2021 at 22-24.

David J.S. Ziff, Show Them the Way: Using Feedback to Improve Writing and Writers, 47 ABA Litig. J. 49-53 (Spring 2021).

Mireille O. Butler, How to Use a Deep Issue Statement to Make a Lasting First Impression, NW Law. (April/May 2021) at 20-22

Benjamin S. Halasz, Strengthen Your Briefs: Argue Rules Before Comparisons, Nw. Law., Feb. 2021, at 20-21.

Hugh Spitzer, Opinion, We've Seen This U.S. Supreme Court Before, Seattle Times, July 15, 2022 at 2:56 PM, Updated July 15, 2022 at 2:56 PM.

Hugh Spitzer, Opinion, Whatever Your Opinion about a State Capital-Gains Tax, It’s Constitutional, Seattle Times, Mar. 30, 2021 2:45 PM, updated Mar. 30, 2021 7:45 PM.

Hugh Spitzer, Opinion, Our State Constitution’s Surprising Right-to-Bear-Arms Language, Seattle Times, Jan. 12. 2021.