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”There is generally no duty in American law to protect third parties from harm,” UW torts law professor Elizabeth Porter said. “There are exceptions to this rule, where the defendant is in a special relationship with the plaintiff. The question is whether such a special relationship exists between universities and their students, and — if yes — the nature of that relationship.”

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.

The FTC began to regulate AI fairness last month, seizing on an automated facial surveillance scandal at pharmacy chain Rite Aid.

Fifty years ago, a landmark federal court case brought against Washington state reaffirmed the treaty rights of Native Americans to fish in traditional waters and shorelines. Robert Anderson, professor emeritus of law at the UW, is quoted.

A group of state lawmakers is making another pitch to get Washington off the twice-a-year time-changing seesaw, but this time with a proposal to adopt permanent standard time instead of daylight saving time. Steve Calandrillo, professor of law at the UW, is mentioned.

Steve Calandrillo, law professor at the University of Washington, passionately pleaded for the Legislature not to pass this bill. Calandrillo studied DST for the past 20 years and testified in front of the U.S. Congress against permanent standard time. “Right now, we have eight months of the year on DST, and four months of the year on standard time,” Calandrillo said. While he agrees with sleep specialists that living by the sun would be ideal, he said the reality is different with modern technology and home lighting.

The viability of extracting lunar resources is furiously debated. Yet examining those resources is an obvious first step, and “Japan wants to be part of that history,” says Saadia Pekkanen, director of the Space Law, Data and Policy programme at the University of Washington.

A lawsuit by Washington state to block a proposed $25 billion merger between grocery giants Kroger and Albertsons is getting some qualified kudos from legal experts and lots (and lots) of love from Washington grocery shoppers. Douglas Ross, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.

A bill that would keep Washington in standard time year-round is clearing its first hurdle on its way through the legislature. The UW's Laura Prugh, associate professor of environmental and forest sciences; Steve Calandrillo, professor of law; and Dr. Vishesh Kapur, professor of medicine and director of sleep medicine in the UW School of Medicine, are quoted.

A bill up for debate in Olympia calls for clocks to no longer “spring ahead” in March and for Pacific Standard Time to remain in effect year-round. The UW's Steve Calandrillo, professor of law, and Dr. Vishesh Kapur, professor of medicine and director of sleep medicine in the UW School of Medicine, are quoted.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday decided not to hear an appeal of a Washington state Supreme Court ruling from March 2023 that found a statewide tax on capital gains to be lawful. Hugh Spitzer, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.

Prior to leading LSAC, Testy served as a law school dean and faculty member for 25 years, including Seattle University School of Law from 2004 to 2009 and as the first woman dean at the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ from 2009 to 2017.

He also serves on the board of the Washington Leadership Institute at the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ, which aims to recruit and train lawyers that reflect the diversity of the state, and has mentored young lawyers at both UW and Seattle University.

“In any merger, companies typically are trying to achieve efficiencies, cost savings,” said Douglas Ross, an antitrust expert at the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ. “Typically, if you’ve got a merger between two companies in the same area, they are going to achieve some cost savings by reducing employment. And that is typical and ordinary. And although it might sound harsh, from an economic point of view it leads to progress, frankly. If we didn’t have more efficiencies, our economy wouldn’t grow and we wouldn’t have advances.”

Torres connected with the law school deans at the state’s three law schools — Gonzaga University, Seattle University and the University of Washington — and they were all supportive. They started to meet in early 2021, and the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC) created a Prelaw Undergraduate Scholars (PLUS) program, which tries to attract diverse students toward the law.

Three candidates, two superpowers and one island. Taiwan is picking a president and a parliament on Saturday amid steadily surging nationalism in mainland China and all the talk of decoupling and derisking by the United States. Who will succeed the outgoing pro-Western president, Tsai Ing-wen? How high are the stakes? Professor Dongsheng Zang is interviewed.

Three Tacoma police officers left a Pierce County courtroom Thursday acquitted of all charges in the death of Manuel Ellis, a 33-year-old Black man who died after a chaotic altercation with them on a Tacoma street nearly four years ago. The trial marked the first test of a Washington law that provided prosecutors a lower bar for holding officers liable for using deadly force. David B. Owens, assistant professor of law at the UW, is quoted.

This week, a jury in Pierce County Superior Court found three officers not guilty of the 2020 death of Manuel (Manny) Ellis, a Black man, in their custody. David B. Owens, assistant professor of law at the UW, is interviewed.

“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.”

Facebook comments took an ugly turn for the Everett Police Department as people started posting threats of violence against officers and the agency, and earlier this week, the comment section got shut down. The police chief indicated that the comments section will be enabled again but offered no timeline. Alex Bolton, program manager for the Tech Policy Lab at the UW, is quoted.

David B. Owens, assistant professor of law at the UW, says he's not surprised by the acquittal of the Tacoma police officers in the 2020 killing of Manuel Ellis, and he explains further issues surrounding Thursday's verdict.

Tribal governments have used the Endangered Species Act to litigate on behalf of imperiled, culturally important species like salmon and grizzly bears, but the law does not acknowledge tribal sovereignty and hunting rights. Monte Mills, professor of law and director of the Native American Law Center at the UW, is quoted.

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.

European Union negotiators clinched a deal last Friday on the world’s first comprehensive artificial intelligence rules, paving the way for legal oversight of AI technology that has promised to transform everyday life and spurred warnings of existential dangers to humanity. Ryan Calo, professor of law at the UW, is interviewed.

Many people get notices in the mail and electronically notifying them that they’re eligible to receive some money from a class action lawsuit settlement. Some social media accounts and websites dedicated to tracking open class action lawsuit settlements claim some settlements will pay people without any proof they’re qualified. But is it legal to take part in a no-proof class action settlement if you’re not really entitled to it? Jeff Feldman, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.