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• Jun 09, 2025 | Source: Seattle U Law

  Annual Ethics and Tech conference will bring together industry and thought leaders around local and global implications of artificial intelligence. June 18, 2025 at Seattle University. Professor Dongsheng Zang is among the speakers.

• Jun 08, 2025 | Source: Tacoma News Tribune

  Pierce County Sheriff Keith Swank’s desire to cooperate with federal immigration authorities, despite Pierce County officials saying he can’t under Washington law, has resulted in pending legal action after Swank used an outside attorney to serve three officials with a demand for mediation last week. ºìÌÒÊÓƵ professor Hugh Spitzer, is quoted.

• Jun 05, 2025 | Source: The Daily

  “If you think about the purpose of the First Amendment, we robustly protect freedom of speech precisely because even the threat of a government activity that will curtail or restrict speech casts a chill on freedom of expression,” Porter said.

• Jun 05, 2025 | Source: The Daily

  “I think the Trump administration has had quite a bit of success by making very outrageous demands and then getting people to negotiate with it in ways that ultimately result in significant victories for the administration,” UW professor of law Elizabeth Porter said.

• Jun 05, 2025 | Source: Washington State Courts

  "The educational components of the program were developed by the National Judicial College (NJC) in consultation with tribal representatives, state government officials, judicial branch leaders and attorneys specializing in water law. Overseeing the educational program have been NJC Associate Director Alf W. Brandt and University of Washington Professor of Law Monte Mills, director of the Native American Law Center."

• Jun 04, 2025 | Source: The Daily

  UW School of Law and its Big Ten academic partners hosted a panel of legal scholars May 28 to examine how courts have responded to — and, in many cases, enabled — presidential overreach during the Trump administration.

• May 27, 2025 | Source: Snopes

  Jeff Feldman, a professor at the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ, wrote via email: "That language, on its face, would not eliminate the court's ability to enforce contempt charges against the government. It would make it much more difficult, though." He also noted that he had not reviewed the entirety of the legislation (which is more than 1,000 pages long), and there could be language or other provisions within the bill that impact the meaning or provide context for the language of the provision in question.

• May 27, 2025 | Source: Seattle Times

  University of Washington law professor Robert Gomulkiewicz said the First Amendment is strongest in public places and the ability of governments like Seattle to regulate speech in parks is highly restricted. “Parks and sidewalks are the quintessential public forum where people have been expressing ideas and protesting since the founding of the country,” he said.

• May 21, 2025 | Source: The Spokesman-Review

  As the document that formed the U.S. government, defined its parts and set down the rights of its people, the Constitution does many things. Professor Spitzer is quoted.

• May 13, 2025 | Source: Seattle Children's PLUGS Podcast

  "In this episode, Dr. Geoff Baird and I interview Elizabeth Pendo, the Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, and the Kellye Y. Testy Professor of Law at the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ. Our topic is medical legal collaboration to improve laboratory stewardship."

• May 06, 2025 | Source: National Jurist PreLaw

  Tamara Lawson, dean of ºìÌÒÊÓƵ, said interdisciplinary collaboration is essential to train the next generation of leaders to solve some of the most complex societal problems. “Innovation requires building consequential connections that span disciplines,” Lawson said. Elizabeth Pendo, senior associate dean for academic affairs and director of the program, said putting the power of the law into action to solve problems will provide policy solutions to support health science and population health ecosystems.

• Apr 28, 2025 | Source: KING5

  "Jake Whittenberg delves into the impact of President Trump's first 100 days in office from immigration to the economy to constitutional law." Professor Spitzer is interviewed beginning at 38:29.

• Newsweek asked Professor Chin about the possibility of a third presidential term.
  Apr 25, 2025 | Source: Newsweek

  "A Trump third term would look unlike any version of the United States under the Constitution as we know it," professor Chin told Newsweek.

• Apr 24, 2025 | Source: KUOW

  Google and the DOJ have returned to court to argue for what they believe the remedy should be for these monopolistic practices. Depending on what’s decided in a D.C. courthouse, there could be big changes in store for one of tech’s biggest juggernauts. Douglas Ross, professor from practice of law at the UW, is interviewed.

• Apr 15, 2025 | Source: KUOW

  A federal judge reprimanded the Trump Administration over its failure to comply with a court order to facilitate the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States. But so far, the Trump administration is not making moves to get him back. So, is the Administration ignoring a ruling from the highest court in the land? And where does that leave our constitutional democracy? Eric Schapper, professor of law at the UW, is interviewed.