Steve Calandrillo

Professor Calandrillo joined the UW law school faculty in 2000 and was named Associate Dean for Faculty in 2009. Prior to teaching, he clerked for Judge Alfred Goodwin on the Ninth Circuit and practiced corporate law at Foster Pepper in Seattle. Professor Calandrillo graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School where he was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law & Economics and a member of the Harvard Journal on Legislation. He is a frequent speaker nationally and has published articles on a wide variety of subjects, including economic analyses of intellectual property rights, eminent domain, organ donation, compulsory vaccinations, assisted suicide, and U.S. health and safety regulatory policy. His recent law review articles have appeared in George Washington, William & Mary, Georgia, Ohio State, Wake Forest and Boston University Law Reviews as well as Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy. He teaches Contract Law, Law & Economics, Law & Medicine, and Secured Transactions, and was selected by the students Philip A. Trautman Professor of the Year in 2003-04 and 2007-08. Prof. Calandrillo serves as faculty advisor to the Washington Law Review and is on the Advisory Board of LifeSharers, a national non-profit organization dedicated to saving the lives of patients awaiting organ transplants.  He has co-authored four amicus briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court, and he and his wife recently won a landmark property rights case before the Washington State Supreme Court on behalf of Washington landowners, Viking v. Holm et al., 155 Wash. 2nd 112.