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The 2023–24 GBLI Fellow shares how the fellowship impacted his personal growth and professional success.
Join Dean Lawson on May 1 for Law Day as the Honorable Richard A. Jones readministers the professional oath to lawyers, emphasizing our duty to uphold the Constitution.
In recognition of our shared commitment to the fundamental values that guide our profession, we stand with our colleagues across the country to express our concern about current threats to the rule of law posed by various governmental actors and actions.
The UW School of Law’s first class included a student of African-American heritage, a Japanese student and three women. (Source: Hugh Spitzer for UW Magazine)
The UW was an early leader in education and expertise in Native American law, and the Native American Law Center continues that work.
Two 1901 graduates from ºìÌÒÊÓƵ’s first class met in law school and became life partners as they pursued admirable legal careers.
ºìÌÒÊÓƵ welcomes Mary Lu Bilek, Joan Howarth and Deborah Jones Merritt, leaders in legal education who will speak on modernizing the law school curriculum.
Students in the Race and Justice Clinic reversed a de facto life sentence by advocating for the mitigating factors of their client’s youthfulness.
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 ºìÌÒÊÓƵ.
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 ºìÌÒÊÓƵ.
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.
"Some of the OGs in the field are here, queer and ready to support you. That's an exciting thing," Hutson said. "This is a diverse and amazing community of folks doing cool work."
ºìÌÒÊÓƵ alumni Janelle E. Chase Fazio and Samuel Daheim were named among the South Sound Business 40 under 40 for 2023.
She holds a bachelor of arts degree in Asian studies from Dartmouth College while accomplishing a senior fellowship program on Native American water rights and earned her juris doctor from the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ with a focus on environmental mediation.
Washington state’s consumer privacy act also enables state judges to triple damages and legal fees resulting from such a lawsuit. “That is a significant risk,” says Jevan Hutson, a legal associate and data-privacy expert in Washington. “The penalties for noncompliance could be impactful.”
