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Focus on Faculty: Professor Stephen in WA Bar News
Amanda Stephen and the cover of the WA Bar News.

Focus on Faculty: Professor Stephen in WA Bar News

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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.

Elizabeth Pendo Honored with 2026 Jay Healey Teaching Award
Dean Elizabeth Pendo poses with her award, celebrating alongside colleague Stacey Tovino, the John B. Turner Chair in Law from the University of Oklahoma.

Elizabeth Pendo Honored with 2026 Jay Healey Teaching Award

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Senior associate dean and professor of law Elizabeth Pendo has received one of the nation’s highest honors in health law education.

Focus on Faculty: Professor Takenaka Authors The Law and Theory of Patents
Professor Takenaka and her book The Law and Theory of Patents

Focus on Faculty: Professor Takenaka Authors The Law and Theory of Patents

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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.

Focus on Faculty: Professor Calo Co-Authors Data Breach Litigation
Ryan Calo and the cover of his book, Data Breach Legislation.

Focus on Faculty: Professor Calo Co-Authors Data Breach Litigation

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Professor Ryan Calo co-authored this practice-oriented guide to filing and defending lawsuits based on breaches of customer data.

Focus on Faculty: Professor Hutson in ACM Symposium on Computer Science and the Law
Jevan Hutson

Focus on Faculty: Professor Hutson in ACM Symposium on Computer Science and the Law

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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.

Focus on Faculty: Professor Sanford Authors 11th Edition of a Leading Text on Healthcare Law
Sallie Thieme Sanford and the cover her book.

Focus on Faculty: Professor Sanford Authors 11th Edition of a Leading Text on Healthcare Law

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The Law of Healthcare Administration, 11th Edition, provides future healthcare leaders with an accurate, engaging, and practical guide to this complex area of law.

Focus on Faculty: Professor Evans in Connecticut Law Review
Danieli Evans

Focus on Faculty: Professor Evans in Connecticut Law Review

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Professor Danieli Evans advances a "citizenship model" for Fourth Amendment law.

Focus on Faculty: Professor Hatfield in EC Tax Review

Focus on Faculty: Professor Hatfield in EC Tax Review

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Is US tax data protection so weak that transfers from the EU to the IRS infringe GDPR rights of Europeans?

AI, Privacy Law and Machine Unlearning
Stylized image of a disembodied hand erasing a laptop screen with the eraser of a standard pencil.

AI, Privacy Law and Machine Unlearning

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Jevan Hutson, director of the Technology Law & Public Policy Clinic, on machine unlearning’s implications for privacy law.

The Yellow Brick Road of Copyright Law
Ruby red slippers and a strip of film atop an old book.

The Yellow Brick Road of Copyright Law

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Professor Peter Nicolas on how his case study course on “The Wizard of Oz” explores the evolution of copyright law across more than a century.