Gallagher Law Library Tours for Law Students

You're about to start law school at UW and you hear that you'll be spending an awful lot of time in Gallagher Law Library over the next three years. Recognized as the "backbone of the School of Law's heritage", Gallagher Law Library is excited to welcome incoming and returning UW law students! To help introduce you to your new "home away from home", the Gallagher Reference Librarians are offering tours of the Law Library to incoming and returning UW law students! 

There's a seat here with your name on it!  Not literally, but you know what we mean.

You may have already visited the Law Library but do you know: 

• How to get into the Library after it has closed to the public?
• Where you can go to ask research questions? 
• How many printers are in the Library at your disposal?
• Where you can find study aids in the Library?
• How to gain entry into the exclusive Bogle & Gates Law Student Lounge? 

For answers to these questions and more, sign up here to tour the Law Library and meet some of your friendly Gallagher Reference Librarians!  If you're already vastly familiar with the Law Library but want to check Reference Office hours or find one of the helpful research guides created by the Gallagher Reference Librarians, the Law Library home page is a great place to start!

Law Students are invited to a Gallagher Chat with Professor Collins this Tuesday!

Do you ever wish you had more opportunities to chat with professors about legal issues outside the classroom? Well, by golly, you are in luck! Gallagher Law Library is hosting a new series called Gallagher Chats*!  

Our first Gallagher Chat featured Professor Spitzer.  Law students were able to discuss the new edition of his book The Washington State Constitution, as well as share their views on a variety of interesting legal issues. Based on the success of our first Gallagher Chat, one of your fellow law students asked that we invite Professor Collins to our next Gallagher Chat. Your wish is our command!

The next Gallagher Chat will feature Professor Collins! Professor Collins will speak with law students about his books on Holmes the Judge, Abrams the Lawyer, HOWL the Poem & Dissent in America.

Professor Collins

Come by the Bogle & Gates Law Student Lounge in Gallagher Law Library this Tuesday, May 7 from 12:30-1:20pm for some refreshments, stimulating conversation with Professor Collins and some of Dean Hazelton's amazing brownies (if I don't get to them first...).

*Gallagher Chats are intended to foster faculty and student relationships. Each chat features a faculty member and centers on a hot legal topic of their choice. Law students are encouraged to join for refreshments, an opportunity to learn about current legal issues, and engage in thought-provoking dialogue with faculty in a casual, intimate setting. 

Gallagher's Fun Friday Tip: PILA Auction 2013

Have you wondered what it'd be like to have dinner with the Dean? Have you fantasized about parking in the Dean's spot when you were running late during finals week? If so, PILA (The Public Interest Law Association) is a genie and you should be rubbing its bottle by attending the PILA Auction tonight. (Hopefully, you already bought tickets since registration closed Feb. 19, 2013. If you missed the deadline, make sure you get in on this next year!!)

The auction is a fancy shmancy event and chock full of cool stuff to bid on! A tour of the Gates Foundation and lunch with Bill Gates, Sr. is up for grabs!

While the event will be great fun, it also serves a meritorious cause.  PILA funds grants for UW law students doing unpaid public interest legal work through the auction. *Applause!!*   The much anticipated event provides the legal community an opportunity to show their support by attending the auction, donating cash/items for auction and bidding on items for auction.  I plan to show my support by bidding on one item in the particular, the gourmet dinner for six donated by UW Law Associate Dean for Library & Technology Services Penny Hazelton and former UW Law Reference Librarian Nancy McMurrer.  Dean Hazelton, if you're reading this, don't be afraid to make it rain lobster and caviar. 

If the role of starving law student has left you a bit cash poor but you feel compelled to contribute to PILA, you can donate your LexisNexis Rewards Points to PILA!  Hope to see you all tonight! 

Photo Credit: www.picstopin.com

New Display: Remembering Judge Betty Binns Fletcher

Next time you are walking into the library, take a few moments to look at Gallagher's newest display remembering the life of Judge Betty Binns Fletcher. Judge Fletcher, a Ninth Circuit judge and University of Washington School of Law graduate, passed away in October.

Over the years, Gallagher Law Library has collected news clippings, photographs, and other memorabilia about Judge Fletcher. The display contains a number of these items, including the program from her investiture ceremony in 1979.

Interested in learning more about Judge Fletcher? The library's Judge Betty Binns Fletcher page contains links to articles by and about her.

Three Degrees Project at UW School of Law

A think tank housed at The University of Washington School of Law is dedicated to promoting climate justice worldwide. Employing human rights discourse as a framework for addressing the problems of environmental degradation, Three Degrees Project “harnesses the power of the academy and the law to promote fair and equitable adaptation strategies in regions most vulnerable to climate impacts.”

Three Degrees was founded by Co-Executive Directors and former UW law students Jeni Barcelos and Jennifer Marlow. This leading climate justice center stemmed from a 2009 Conference at the UW School of Law that included a lecture by Mary Robinson, the first woman President of Ireland and the former United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights. The mission of Three Degrees is to “design future institutions capable of addressing the human impacts of climate change and to assist climate-impacted communities in seeking compensation for climate harms.”

In borrowing from environmental and human rights law, Three Degrees has not only gone on speaking tours around the world, but has also implemented the following projects:

• Cambodia Project: Working with photojournalists Michael Harris and Kevin Ely, and the staff of Wildlife Alliance, Three Degrees produced a short video about the Southern Cardamom forest and the long-term threats posed by a titanium mine. 

• Climate Justice Seminar: Open to twenty-five students from across the UW, the course examines predicted climate futures in locations around the world where climate change is likely to harm marginalized populations, and to understand the limitations and strengths of international and domestic legal and policy systems to alleviate these impacts.

• Simulation Summits: Bringing local people together with scientists, legal experts, artists, and public health practitioners, Simulation Summits empower impacted communities to analyze climate threats specific to them. Simulation Summits identify responses to legal and policy barriers, which may include litigation, developing new fiscal mechanisms for supporting adaptation, creating international and domestic institutions for hearing climate claims, and increasing access to local legal and technical resources. 

In the near future, Three Degrees will be speaking at the Global Washington Conference: Opportunities and Obstacles in Turbulent Times located at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, WA on October 31 and at the World Affairs Council Forum in Juneau, Alaska in mid-November.

Global Mondays

To raise awareness and dialogue regarding foreign, comparative, and international law, the UW School of Law presents Global Mondays this year, which will take place every Monday from 12:30pm to 1:20pm in Room 117 of William Gates Hall. The weekly event will continue throughout the school year as a forum that examines the “intersection of law, policy and the role of legal professionals in our increasingly complex and interconnected world.” Global Mondays is an invaluable learning experience for those of us seeking to explore an array of subjects ranging from climate change in Indonesia to women lawyers in Kyrgyzstan and Azerbaijan.

This week, the Asian Law Center hosted the Law Through Global Eyes Lecture. Dr. Myoung Ung Lee, a UW LL.M. candidate in Asian Law and former UW Visiting Scholar, gave a fascinating lecture titled Comparing Judicial Review: U.S. v. South Korea (A European Model).

Dr. Lee demystified the concept of judicial review in different civil and common law systems around the world by detailing its history in the U.S., Europe, and East Asia. He then praised the merits and cautioned against the faults of the various countries’ standards of review, procedure, effects of decisions, and judicial independence in relation to judicial review.

For further reading on the subject, consult Miguel Schor, Mapping Comparative Judicial Review, 7 Wash. U. Global Stud. L. Rev. 257 (2008), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=988848, and Adam M. Dodek, A Tale of Two Maps: The Limits of Universalism in Comparative Judicial Review, 47 Osgoode Hall L.J. 287 (2009), available at http://www.ohlj.ca/english/documents/03_Dodek_FINAL.pdf.

Next week’s presentation, hosted by the Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, will feature the research of two globally engaged UW J.D. candidates:

• Andrew Van Winkle will present Separation of Religion and State in Japan: A Pragmatic Interpretation of Articles 20 and 89 of the Japanese Constitution
• Greg Chiarella will present Sources of law, Sources of Authority: The Failure of the Code of Muslim Personal Laws of the Philippines.

Over the course of the year, students from around the globe will come together to share their unique insights of law in the world.

Digital Archives of Washington Law Review

Where do you go when you need a pre-1980 article from the Washington Law Review?

If you are here in the Law Library, you might go to the Compact Stacks on L2, where you will find the bound volumes of the WLR.

If you aren't physically here in the Library, but you are a UW faculty, student, or staff member, you could click on the Off-Campus Access link on any UW library webpage, sign in with your UW Net ID and then cruise to HeinOnline, which has PDF images of virtually all US law school law reviews, including the Washington Law Review.

But what if you aren't in the Law Library and no longer a UW student? Are you out of luck?

No!

Thanks to the digital archives maintained by the Law Library, everyone can now find WLR articles going all the way back to volume 1, 1919.

Visit the "Issues" page of the Washington Law Review website and look for the digital.law icon on the right side of the screen. That's where you'll find the link to the digital archives.

Guess what? The Library also maintains a digital archive for the Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal!

Law and Economics Resource

Law and economics can come up in almost any field—even trial advocacy (see, e.g., Dru Stevenson, Jury Selection and the Coase Theorem (March 4, 2011), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1777278)—so it's a real boon that there is a scholarly encyclopedia available online (free!).

For instance, if you'd like to read more about the Coase Theorem—a lot more—see Steven G. Medema & Richard O. Zerbe, Jr., The Coase Theorem (1999), in Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. The 57-page article about the Coase Theorem is just one of scores of articles. By the way, Dick Zerbe, from the UW's Evans School of Public Affairs is an adjunct professor in the law school.

If you think that it would be worthwhile to know a little more about economics and you need an introduction (or a refresher), consider Grady Klein & Yoram Bauman, The Cartoon Introduction to Economics. (This excerpt has a little about the Coase Theorem on page 182.) Yoram Bauman teaches in the UW's Program on the Environment.

Learn U.S. Patent Law in Two Weeks

The Center for Advanced Study & Research on Intellectual Property (CASRIP) 2011 Summer Institute will be held at the UW School of Law from July 14 - 29. This institute, directed by Professor Toshiko Takenaka, teaches the fundamentals of patent prosecution, patent litigation, and technology licensing and management from a comparative law perspective. See the brochure for more information and the CASRIP site to register.

The two-day High Technology Protection Summit will be held on July 22-23.

Upcoming CLE: the Japanese Legal Profession after Recent Crises

An upcoming CLE, "The Japanese Legal Profession after the 2008 Financial Crisis and the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake Symposium," will be held on Monday, May 9, 2011 from 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. in downtown Seattle.

A distinguished group of legal practitioners from the leading Japanese and foreign law firms in Tokyo will engage in a panel discussion to examine the current state of the legal profession in Japan following the 2008 financial crisis and the 2011 Tohoku earthquake.

To register for this free seminar (offering 2.0 CLE credits), see the UW School of Law's Continuing Legal Education site. See the brochure for information about the speakers. Pre-registration by May 3, 2011 is required.

Reading Picks from UW Law Faculty and Staff

To celebrate National Library Week (April 10-16), we asked law school faculty and staff to recommend reading—not just law books, and not just books, for that matter. People could—and did—recommend anything from a cartoon blog to a classic law review article by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Take a look at the Reading Recommendations: you'll learn a little more about the professors and staff you see every day. And whether you want thought-provoking works related to law, literary fiction, or something light to give you a break from your studies, you'll find something to pique your interest.

Printing from WestlawNext Now Available

Students, faculty and staff are now able to send documents from WestlawNext to the dedicated Westlaw printers.

If you are a student, please be sure to choose either the Library Alcove or the Room 222 Computer Lab printers.

The printer icon is located in the upper right hand portion of the page when you view a document.

Upcoming CLE: Northwest Dispute Resolution Conference

The UW School of Law is hosting the 18th Annual Northwest Dispute Resolution Conference on Friday, April 29, 2011 and Saturday, April 30, 2011.

For more information on this conference, approved for 9.25 Washington CLE credits (including 3.5 Ethics credits), see the UW CLE page. The program brochure is available here.

Sessions of particular interest to lawyers include the following:

• Planning for Mediation
• Negotiating Tips & Strategies
• Techniques for Avoiding Impasse
• Closing the Deal
• Mediation Ethics

Student Evaluation of Instruction

At the end of each course, students are asked to evaluate the instruction. Was the course intellectually stimulating and challenging? Was the professor available for questions? Was the workload appropriate to the credit earned for the course? Before you sign up for next quarter's courses, would you be interested in the results of those evaluations?

Student answers are summarized each quarter by course and instructor and are available to you in the library. The Survey of Student Opinion, KF292 .W3 F3s, is kept in the library's Special Collections. This is a closed collection, but you can check out a binder(s) by stopping at the Circulation Desk and asking the person on duty there to retrieve a binder(s) for you. There is a "current" binder for 2010 and 2011. The next most recent book is 2008-2009.

Race and the Criminal Justice System

People of color are over-represented at every stage of the criminal justice system, from arrest through sentencing and incarceration.

Paula Ditton Henzel, Disproportionality and Disparity in Adult Felony Sentencing 2003 (Wash. State Sentencing Guidelines Comm'n, [2003]).

What are the causes, effects, and possible cures for this serious disproportionality?

A state-wide Task Force on Race and the Criminal Justice System has been meeting for the last few months and will meet with the Washington Supreme Court March 2.

The Law Library has prepared a guide, linking to Washington State studies and other materials. See Race in the Criminal Justice System.

Next Thursday, the UW Minority Law Students Association presents a panel, Racial Disparity & The Criminal Justice System, 3:30-5:

Welcome by Dean Kellye Testy
Panelists:
• The Honorable Veronica Alicea-Galvan, Des Moines, Washington Municipal Court
• Professor Katherine Beckett, UW Department of Sociology and UW Law, Societies & Justice Program
• Officer Jeff Geoghagan, Seattle PD SWAT
• Professor Alexes Harris, UW Department of Sociology
• Anita Khandelwal, The Defender Association
• Mark Larson, Chief Criminal Deputy of the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office

Moderated by Professor Mary D. Fan

Seattle University School of Law is also having speakers on this and related topics as part of its Diversity Week 2011. Thursday afternoon has a CLE, Advocacy Strategies for Protecting Civil Rights (3:30-5:30), followed by a reception (5:30-7:30):

The reception following the CLE will provide a forum to discuss how lawyers, law students and community members can address racial bias in the criminal justice system. The discussion will be facilitated by the Co-Chairs of the Task Force on Race and the Criminal Justice System, Professor Robert Chang, director of the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality, and Judge Steven González, chair of the WA Access to Justice Board.

If you're inspired by the UW panel, you can hop up Capitol Hill for the reception at SU.

Cocktail-Party Advice

What do you do when your uncle or an old buddy asks you about a legal problem that's come up? Professor Karen Boxx, quoted in an article in De Novo and the Bar News, advises caution. Even what you think of as a casual conversation can create an attorney-client relationship.

Trent M. Latta, Counsel Over Cocktails? What to Do When Friends and Family Ask for Legal Advice, Wash. St. B. News, Feb. 2011, De Novo, Feb. 2011.

December 10 is Human Rights Day

December 10th is Human Rights Day. This year, Human Rights Day "recognizes the work of human rights defenders worldwide who act to end discrimination." --United Nations.

The UN has more information here. A celebration of International Human Rights Day will take place in Gates Hall tomorrow, Dec. 10, from 4 - 6 p.m. More information about the celebration, sponsored by the UW School of Law and the UW Center for Human Rights, is found here.

Why December 10th? The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on this day in 1948.

Upcoming CLEs

The University of Washington School of Law is offering two CLEs this month:

Buying and Selling Closely Held Businesses in Dynamic & Uncertain Times, on December 9, 2010, 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Click here to register or see the brochure for more information.

Land Use 2011: Law and Practice
Thursday, December 16, 2010, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Click here to register or see the brochure for more information.

Registration costs for both CLEs increase tomorrow, December 2, 2010.

Upcoming CLE: Advocating for Immigrant Survivors of Domestic Violence

The Immigrant Families Advocacy Project (IFAP), the Northwest Immigrants Rights Project (NWIRP), and the University of Washington School of Law are presenting a Continuing Legal Education program on Friday, November 5, 2010, in downtown Seattle.

Find more information about the program, "Immigration Options for Immigrant Survivors of Domestic Violence: U-Visa under the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Prevention Act," including registration information, here.

Three CLE Opportunities this Friday

The UW School of Law is hosting three separate CLE opportunities on Friday, October 29, 2010:

• Mobile Payments: Global Markets, Empowered Consumers and New Rules? Click here for details.
• Whose Right? Corporations, People and the 1st Amendment. Click here for details.
• Justice for Washington's Wrongly Convicted? Click here for details.

For more information about CLE programs, please contact the UW School of Law's Continuing Legal Education office.