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Veronica  Taylor

Veronica Taylor

Director, Asian Law Center
Dan Fenno Henderson Professorship in East Asian Legal Studies
Professor of Law

Professor Taylor joined the faculty in 2001. As Director of the Asian Law Center she is responsible for the J.D., LL.M., Ph.D., and Visiting Scholar programs in Asian, Comparative and Development Law. She leads a team of fifteen faculty and staff who carry out the Center's teaching, research and policy work on Afghanistan, Central Asia, Indonesia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. She serves as a faculty advisor to the Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal. ...

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Jonathan A Eddy

Jonathan A Eddy

Manager, Afghanistan Legal Educators Project
Professor of Law

Professor Eddy re-joined the UW law school faculty in July 2005 and serves as the Project Manager for the U.S. Department of State-funded Afghan Legal Educators Project. He is responsible for oversight of the project in Afghanistan and Seattle, designing study programs and professional mentoring for a cohort of Afghan law professors from Kabul University and leading provincial law schools in Afghanistan. ...

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Yong-Sung (Jonathan)  Kang

Yong-Sung (Jonathan) Kang

Assistant Professor of Law

Professor Kang's teaching and research interests are in the areas of contract law and theory, international business transactions, Korean law, comparative law, and moral and legal philosophy. His scholarship seeks to explore the normative underpinnings of contractual obligations and the theoretical justifications for the regulation of contractual relationships in concrete private and/or public contexts, using insights drawn from philosophy and comparative jurisprudence. ...

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Clark  Lombardi

Clark Lombardi

Associate Professor of Law

Professor Lombardi joined the UW law school faculty in 2004. A specialist in Islamic law and in constitutional law, he teaches in these areas and also teaches courses in federalism, comparative law, and development law. Professor Lombardi's current research and writing have focused on the evolution of Islamic law in contemporary legal systems. He also focuses on comparative judicial institutions and on the way that constitutional systems deal with religious organizations and religious law. ...

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Dana  Raigrodski

Dana Raigrodski

Assistant Director (International), Asian Law Center

Dr. Raigrodski is a Part Time Lecturer and Assistant Director (International) with the Asian Law Center, University of Washington School of Law. She is also the Director of the Law School's Summer Institute in Transnational Law and Practice. She hold an LL.B magna cum laude, Tel Aviv University; an LL.M. with distinction and SJD from Tulane University. Dr. Raigrodski has practiced law for the Israeli Defense Forces Military Advocate General Staff Command in Tel Aviv, serving as a military prosecutor and legal counselor. Professor Raigrodski teaches legal research and writing and comparative law, and her scholarship and research interests examine criminal procedure and jurisprudence, constitutional law, law and development and international human rights. Dr. Raigrodski also coordinates international exchange and collaboration for the Law School and oversees the Visiting Scholars Program. She is a member of the New York Bar and the Israel Bar. ...

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Jane  Winn

Jane Winn

Director, Shidler Center for Law, Commerce & Technology
Charles I. Stone Professor of Law
Professor of Law

Professor Winn, co-director of the Shidler Center for Law, Commerce & Technology and Fulbright Scholar, is a leading international authority on electronic commerce law and technological and governance issues surrounding information security. She joined the faculty in 2002. Her current research interests include electronic commerce law developments in the United States, the European Union, and China. She is coauthor of Law of Electronic Commerce and the casebook Electronic Commerce. ...

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Dongsheng  Zang

Dongsheng Zang

Assistant Professor of Law

Professor Zang joined the faculty full-time in 2006, after serving as a visiting professor in 2005-06. His academic interests include international trade law, and comparative study of Chinese law, with a focus on the role of law and state in response to social crises in the social transformation in China. He holds an S.J.D. and LL.M. from Harvard Law School, in addition to his LL.M. from Renmin University (Beijing) and LL.B. from Beijing College of Economics. His doctoral dissertation, One-way Transparency: The Establishment of the Rule-based International Trade Order and the Predicament of Its Jurisprudence, was awarded the 2004 Yong K. Kim '95 prize. He was a research fellow at the East Asia Legal Studies at Harvard Law School during the 2004-05 academic year. ...

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