Anna Mastroianni
Associate Professor of Law
Professor Mastroianni joined the UW law school faculty in 1998 and is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the UW Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and in the Department of Bioethics & Humanities, School of Medicine, and an Affiliate Scholar at the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics in Seattle. She teaches Health Law and Bioethics, including issues of reproduction, in the School of Law, the UW Institute for Public Health Genetics, and other units throughout the university. She has worked in a number of legal and governmental policy positions in Washington DC, including Associate Director of the White House Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments and Study Director of the Institute of Medicine. She also practiced health law with Epstein Becker and Green, P.C., and Green, Stewart & Farber, P.C. in Washington, DC. She has served on the National Research Council's Committee on Institutional Review Boards, Social Science and Surveys and the Institute of Medicine's Committee on the Review of the National Immunization Program's Research Procedures and Data Sharing Program. Professor Mastroianni has also participated in the review of legal and ethical issues on National Institutes of Health study sections, and served on other government and non-government advisory bodies. In addition, she has been nationally recognized for her contributions to health policy, law and bioethics by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Her publications include six books and numerous peer-reviewed articles on law, medicine and bioethics. Professor Mastroianni is admitted to the Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia bars.
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Steve Calandrillo
Associate Dean
Charles I. Stone Professor of Law
Professor of Law
Professor Calandrillo joined the UW law school faculty in 2000. Prior to teaching, he clerked for Judge Alfred Goodwin on the Ninth Circuit and practiced corporate law at Foster Pepper & Shefelman 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 law, and U.S. health and safety regulatory policy. He also authored articles addressing organ donation incentives, physician-assisted suicide, the Americans with Disabilities Act, sports medicine law, and exemptions to compulsory vaccination laws. 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 on the law school's Executive Council, as faculty advisor to Washington Law Review, and 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.
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Paul Steven Miller
Henry M. Jackson Professor of Law
Director, UW Disability Studies Program
Professor of Law
Paul Steven Miller is the Henry M. Jackson Professor of Law and is regarded as an internationally renowned expert in disability and employment discrimination law. Professor Miller has spent his legal career moving between academia, public service, and law practice. Most recently, Professor Miller spent the first nine months of the Obama Administration as a Special Assistant to the President in The White House where he managed the Presidential appointments and nominations process for U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Education, and many of the Independent Regulatory Agencies within the federal government. He also served on the Obama Transition Team as a member of the Department of Labor and the U.S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission agency review teams.
From 2006 to 2009, Professor Miller was the director of the University of Washington's Disability Studies Program, an interdisciplinary program that examines the social, cultural, historical and personal experience of disability. He is also a member of the UW Graduate School faculty, a Faculty Associate of the UW Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, and a faculty advisor to the UW School of Law Health Law Concentration Track.
Prior to joining the law faculty, Professor Miller had been one of the longest serving commissioners of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency which enforces employment discrimination laws. While at the EEOC, Professor Miller spearheaded the development of the agency's successful mediation program. He also served in The White House as Liaison to the Disability Community and as Deputy Director of the U.S. Office of Consumer Affairs during the Clinton Administration. Earlier in his career, Professor Miller was the Director of Litigation for the Western Law Center for Disability Rights (now the Disability Law Center) and taught at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles and UCLA School of Law. He began his career as a litigation associate at a Los Angeles law firm.
Professor Miller is an active member of the American Bar Association's (ABA) Labor and Employment Section, and is a Fellow of the ABA Foundation. He was also elected to be a Fellow in the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He is a Fellow of the British American Project. In 2003, Professor Miller received an honorary Doctor of Laws from CUNY Law School. He is a former trustee of the University of Pennsylvania.
Professor Miller is a frequent speaker and lecturer in the area of equal employment opportunity, workplace diversity, disability issues, and the legal, social and ethical issues of the Human Genome Project, and he is a prolific writer on these topics. Professor Miller's expert insights on the topics of the workplace, disability, genetics and the law often appear in the national media, in print, television and radio. He has also testified before committees of the U.S. Congress and the British Parliament. He has received grant funding for his research and work in the areas of disability human rights, genomics and health equality, and bioethics. He has been the convener and chair of several national and international symposia, including Framing Legal and Human Rights Strategies for Change: A Case Study of Disability Rights in Asia (2008); and The Ethics and Policy of Limiting Growth in Children with Severe Disabilities: Issues of Decision Making, Benefits and Social Impact (2007).
In 2006, Professor Miller reprised his lead role as Don Baklava, in the revival production of the musical comedy Ring Job by The Mask and Wig Club.
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Sean O'Connor
Chair, Law, Technology & Arts Group
Professor
Professor of Law
Professor O'Connor specializes in intellectual property and business law involving biotechnology, cyberspace/information technology, and new media/digital arts. He holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School, M.A. (Philosophy) from Arizona State University, and B.A. (History) from University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is Of Counsel to Seed IP Law Group.
Professor O'Connor lectures and publishes on IP and business law around the world, including India, Japan, Italy, Spain, Mexico, and Canada. His articles have been translated for publication into multiple languages. He began practicing law at major international business and technology law firms in New York and Boston, and was General Counsel to Rhizome.org from 2000-2006. Professor O'Connor began his academic career at the University of Pittsburgh before joining the faculty at the University of Washington School of Law in 2003, where he was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2006. He was Visiting Professor and Kauffman Fellow in Law & Entrepreneurship at University of California Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) in 2007. Professor O'Connor is also Associate Director, Center for Advanced Studies and Research on IP (CASRIP); Faculty Fellow, Institute for Public Health Genetics; Faculty Fellow, Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship; and Faculty Fellow, Economics Policy Research Center. He has written numerous articles and book chapters, and is co-author of Genetic Technologies and the Law (with Patricia Kuszler & Katherine Battuello; Carolina Academic Press 2007).
Professor O'Connor is admitted to practice in Washington, New York and Massachusetts. He is a member of the Order of the Coif, Washington State Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, Massachusetts Bar Association, American Intellectual Property Law Association, American Bar Association, and the Licensing Executives Society.
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Beth Rivin
Director, Global Health and Justice Project
Research Associate Professor of Law
Professor Rivin directs the Global Health and Justice Project, a multidisciplinary project that is based at the UW School of Law. The project encompasses academic activities at UW as well as field activities in developing countries in collaboration with the Seattle-based NGO, Uplift International. She is a co-investigator on the International Biomedical Research Ethics Fellowship Grant, funded by the Fogarty Center. Professor Rivin co-directs the Certificate in International Bioethics, Social Justice and Health. In addition to her appointment at the Law School, Dr. Rivin has appointments in the Schools of Medicine and Public Health. She is Adjunct Research Associate Professor of Global Health and Bioethics and Humanities.
Her professional experience ranges from clinical pediatrics and adolescent medicine to field research, epidemiology, emergency humanitarian assistance and public health and human rights program development and evaluation. In addition to domestic work, Professor Rivin has field experience in China, Cambodia, Haiti, Indonesia, Israel, Nepal, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Tajikistan. She has consulted with Ministries of Health, large governmental and international organizations, such as the U.S. Agency for International Development, the World Health Organization, and various non-governmental organizations.
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Sallie Sanford
Acting Assistant Professor of Law
Professor Sanford teaches Health Law both at the law school and the School of Public Health. Her research interests include health care delivery systems, health administration law, Medicare and Medicaid, comparative health law, and medical and administrative ethics.
Professor Sanford began her legal career as a law clerk for The Honorable Robert R. Beezer of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She then served for six years as an Assistant Attorney General representing the University of Washington Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center and the UW's health sciences schools. Professor Sanford is a member of the Order of the Coif and is admitted to practice in Washington and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She is also active in the Washington State Society of Healthcare Attorneys.
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