Dana Raigrodski

  • Associate Teaching Professor
  • Director, General Law LL.M.

Contact

Phone: (206) 616-5321
Email: draigrod@uw.edu

Dana Raigrodski

Education

LL.B. magna cum laude 1995, Tel Aviv University, Israel LL.M. with distinction 1998, Tulane University S.J.D. 2002, Tulane University

Areas of Expertise

Comparative Law — Criminal Law — Criminal Law and Procedure — Gender and the Law — Human Trafficking — Legal Philosophy and Theory — Legal Research and Writing — LGBTQ Rights

Recent Courses

Course Number Course Name
Introduction to Perspectives on the Law
Business Organizations
Feminist Jurisprudence Seminar
American Legal System and Method
Globalization and the Law

Selected Publications

  • Dana Raigrodski, A Man’s Home is His Castle? Intimate Partner Violence, Firearm Surrender, and Home Searches under Article I, Section 7 of the Washington Constitution, 100 Wash. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2025).
  • Dana Raigrodski, Winning the Battle, Losing the War: Rahimi, Women, and the Supreme Court, 49 S. Ill. U. L.J. __ (forthcoming 2025).

See the full list under the Publications tab below.

Dr. Dana Raigrodski is an Associate Teaching Professor and Director of the General Law LL.M. program at the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ. 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.

Peer Reviewed Journals & Law Reviews

  • Dana Raigrodski, A Man’s Home is His Castle? Intimate Partner Violence, Firearm Surrender, and Home Searches under Article I, Section 7 of the Washington Constitution, 100 Wash. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2025).
  • Dana Raigrodski, Winning the Battle, Losing the War: Rahimi, Women, and the Supreme Court, 49 S. Ill. U. L.J. __ (forthcoming 2025).

Book Chapters

Professional Publications

  • Dana Raigrodski, The Joy and Challenge of Teaching Legal Skills to Graduate Law Students, Micro-Essay for the AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research 2024 Spring/Summer newsletter (May 2024).
  • Panelist, "3rd Annual Diversity Celebration," ºìÌÒÊÓƵ (February 27, 2025)
  • Moderator, "Is Post-Graduate Legal Education in the U.S. Still Globally Attractive?," 2025 Annual Meeting: Courage in Action, Association of American Law Schools (January 10, 2025)
  • Speaker, "Human Trafficking and Forced Labor in Global Supply Chains," International Studies in Business Certificate Program (CISB), University of Washington Michael G. Foster School of Business (November 21, 2024)
  • Moderator, "Immigration, Misinformation, and Forced Labor Panel," International Conference: Human Trafficking in an Era of Globalization: Problems, Perspectives, and Progress, University of Washington Women’s Center (September 5, 2024)
  • Speaker, "Setting Due Dates for Formative and Summative Assessments—What I Learned Experimenting this Past Year," CALIcon 2024, (June 13, 2024)
  • Panelist, "LGBTQ+ and the Law," Women in Law Student Organization, University of Chicago (May 8, 2024)
  • Panelist, Workshop on Globally Engaged Teaching, UW Office of Global Affairs and Center for Teaching and Learning (January 25, 2024)
  • Panelist, "Post-Graduate Legal Education: Leveraging Post-Graduate Law Programs," 2024 Annual Meeting: Defending Democracy, Association of American Law Schools (January 6, 2024)
  • Speaker, "Commercial Sex and Exploitation – Findings from the Washington State Supreme Court Gender & Justice Commission 2021 Gender Justice Study," Tribal State Court Consortium Webinar “A Multidisciplinary Response to Sex Trafficking in Indigenous Communities", (November 30, 2023)
  • Testified, "Testimony on behalf of the Washington State Supreme Court Gender & Justice Commission," WA Senate Law & Justice Committee Work Session on Domestic Violence (October 2, 2023)
  • Testified, "Testimony on behalf of the Washington State Supreme Court Gender & Justice Commission in Support of SB 5128 (Jury Diversity Bill)," Washington House Civil Rights & Judiciary Committee Hearing, (March 15, 2023)
  • Testified, "Testimony on behalf of the Washington State Supreme Court Gender & Justice Commission in Support of SB 5128 (Jury Diversity Bill)," Washington Senate Committee on Law & Justice Hearing, (January 10, 2023)
  • Panelist, "Globally Engaged Teaching," UW Office of Global Affairs and Center for Teaching and Learning Workshop, (October 19, 2022)
  • Speaker, "Washington State Supreme Court Gender & Justice Commission 2021 Gender Justice Study: Spotlight on Sexual Assault," Washington Sexual Assault Coordinated Community Response (SACCR) Task Force, (May 25, 2022)
  • Panelist, "Dobbs v. Jackson and the Future of the Right to Abortion," ºìÌÒÊÓƵ chapter of If/When/How Lawyering for Reproductive Justice, ºìÌÒÊÓƵ (May 17, 2022)
  • Dec 16, 2022 | Source: KUOW

    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.

  • Dec 16, 2022 | Source: The Seattle Times

    Dana Raigrodski, a professor at the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ, 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.