The William H. Gates Public Service Law Program
The University of Washington School of Law is proud to announce the William H.
Gates Public Service Law Program. Created in honor of William H.
Gates Sr., a prominent Washington state attorney and public servant, this
program awards five scholarships on an annual basis to first year students
entering the UW School of Law J.D. program. Each Gates PSL scholarship award
will cover tuition, books, other normal fees imposed for University and UW
School of Law enrollment, costs of room and board and incidental expenses.
Acceptance of a Gates PSL scholarship represents a commitment on the part of
each recipient ("Scholar") to work in public service for five years following
graduation.
The presence of this Program at the UW School of Law cements our institution’s
commitment to public service and enhances the experience of the entire law
school and university community.
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Gates PSL Speaker Series 2009-2010
The William H. Gates Public Service Law program is pleased to announce the 2009-2010 Gates PSL Speaker Series
All speaker events take place at the University of Washington School of law, William H. Gates Hall, Room 133
October 5, 2009
Mark W. Bennett, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa.
Judge Bennett was appointed a United States District Court Judge in the Northern District of Iowa on August 26, 1994. On January 1, 2000, he became Chief Judge of the Northern District and served in this capacity for seven years. Judge Bennett had previously served, from December 2, 1991, as a United States Magistrate Judge in the sister district, the Southern District of Iowa. Judge Bennett graduated from the Drake University Law School in 1975. Upon graduation, he started his own law firm in Des Moines, in the basement of a long since demolished building. During more than sixteen years, his extensive practice in employment discrimination, constitutional law and other civil rights litigation took him to numerous state and federal trial and appellate courts throughout the United States.
February 1, 2010
"Empathy and the Legal System: Do Real Judges Cry?"
Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
Richard Delgado is one of the leading commentators on race in the United States. He has appeared on Good Morning America, the MacNeil-Lehrer Report, PBS, NPR, the Fred Friendly Show, and Canadian NPR. Richard Delgado is a triple pioneer. He was the first to question free speech ideology; he and a few others invented critical race theory; and he is both a theorist and an exemplar of the importance of storytelling in the workings of the law. Delgado lives with his wife, legal writer Jean Stefancic, in Seattle, Washington where he holds the title of University Professor at Seattle University School of Law.
Jean Stefancic is Research Professor of Law at Seattle University, where she writes about civil rights, law reform, social change, and legal scholarship. She has written and co-authored over 40 articles and 15 books, many with her husband Richard Delgado, with whom she shared writing residencies at Bellagio, Bogliasco, and Centrum. Their book, Critical White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirror won a Gustavus Myers award for outstanding book on human rights in North America. Her latest book, How Lawyers Lose Their Way, examines how law practice can stifle creativity. Stefancic and Delgado also serve as co-editors for three book series.
February 23, 6:00 p.m., Room 138
Co-sponsored by: UW History Dept and Division of Spanish and Portuguese Studies
"Human Rights and Historical Memory"
Honorable Baltasar Garzón, Spanish Investigating Judge
Baltasar Garzón is one of the six investigating judges for Spain’s National Court. His function is to investigate the cases that are assigned to him by the court, gathering evidence and evaluating whether the case should be brought to trial. He does not try the cases himself.
Garzón rose to prominence as international figure with his indictment of leaders of the former Chilean military junta, including dictator Augusto Pinochet, on charges of genocide, terrorism and torture during 1976-1983 dictatorship.
Garzón has also played a key role in indicting suspected Basque terrorists. In 2000, he ordered the arrest of members of Ekin, an organization seen as the successor of KAS.
April 19, 2010
Co-sponsored by: UW Law School, the UW Law, Societies & Justice Program
"Militant Democracy"
Dr. Kathleen Cavanaugh
Dr. Kathleen Cavanaugh is currently a Lecturer of International Law in the Faculty of Law, Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway. She holds a LL.M from the Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, and PhD in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics & Political Science. Her fields of study include nationalism, ethnic conflict, political violence, states of exception and the laws of belligerent occupation (IHL). Her current projects include a manuscript with Oxford University Press entitled Minority Rights in the Middle East as well as an additional monograph entitled Militant Democracy. She is currently Chair of the Executive Committee of Amnesty International (Ireland) and a former member of the International Policy Committee of Amnesty International.
May 3, 2010
Linda Greenhouse
Linda Greenhouse is the Knight Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. She assumed those positions in January 2009, after 30 years covering the Supreme Court of the United States for the New York Times. Ms. Greenhouse received numerous journalism awards during her 40-year career at the Times, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for her coverage of the Supreme Court. Ms. Greenhouse is one of two non-lawyer honorary members of the American Law Institute, which in 2002 awarded her its Henry J. Friendly Medal. She is a member of the American Philosophical Society, which in 2005 awarded her its Henry Allen Moe Prize for writing in the humanities and jurisprudence. She also serves on the advisory council of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Harvard).
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