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• July 20, 2008
  Impartiality key when picking judges - Yakima Herald
  Judges are not politicians, not representatives of any particular person or group and required to make their decisions based upon the facts and law of the case. UW law professor, William Andersen says: "If one understands the value of judicial impartiality, one appreciates that candidates with fixed views on any side of issues should not be celebrated -- they should be disqualified."
• July 17, 2008
  UW raises record-breaking $2.68 billion - Seattle PI
  The university announced Thursday that the campaign brought in $2.68 billion during the past eight years. Five new buildings resulted from the campaign, including William H. Gates Hall which houses the law school.
• July 16, 2008
  Can’t Get an Attorney for Your FBI-Conspiracy Case? - Seattle Weekly
  In Washington, most damages claims must be filed within three years. UW law professor Tom Andrews says there's a little leeway based on when someone realizes they've been wronged years later.
• July 15, 2008
  Judge: Knockoff-Tracking Not eBay's Job - eCommerce Times
  eBay still faces an uphill struggle overseas, Anita Ramasastry, UW law professor and director of the Shidler Center for Law, Commerce + Technology. "The European courts are going to be looking at the European market and the concept of the European consumer and seller -- even though we think of these as global marketplaces and [e-commerce companies] want to trade with the same rules in place."
• July 8, 2008
  Editorial: Openness key to strong police board - Seattle Times
  July 7, 2008
  Seattle City Council urged to step up police scrutiny - Seattle Times
  July 2, 2008
  Panel urges changes in police oversight - Seattle P-I
  On the most recent police oversight panel, member and UW School of Law professor Eric Schnapper, penned an addendum in which he criticized the city as having a system of "selective confidentiality" that undermines the reliability of the police disciplinary process and hinders the watchdog role of a citizen-review board.
• June 26, 2008
  Disparities found in child welfare - Seattle Times
  Native American, black kids more likely to end up in foster care - Seattle P-I
  State intervenes more often with minority children - The Olympian
  On Wednesday, June 25, 2008 the statewide Advisory Committee on Racial Disproportionality presented to DSHS Secretary Robin Arnold-Williams its report on Racial Disproportionality in Washington's Child Welfare System. The report finds that Native American, Black and Hispanic children are over-represented in the child welfare system compared with White children, and that the disproportionality exists statewide. A conference addressing racial disproportionality in child-welfare systems and the impact of the report was held at the UW School of Law June 26 and 27, 2008.
• June 26, 2008
  Supreme Court drastically cuts payouts for plaintiffs in Exxon Valdez oil spill - Seattle Times
  Exxon damages slashed - Seattle PI
  The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday slashed the amount of punitive damages that Exxon must pay for the epic Exxon Valdez oil spill. In a 5-3 decision, the court found that punitive damages could not be larger than the compensatory damages for actual losses from the spill, which totaled $507.5 million – less than a tenth of the original $2.5 billion in damages claimed by the plaintiffs. "Crime pays, and environmental crime pays really well," said William Rodgers, UW law professor and expert on the Exxon Valdez case.
• June 25, 2008
  U.S. reluctance to sign treaty on disabilities is painful, puzzling - Seattle Times
  UW School of Law professor Paul Steven Miller co-authors this guest column with Dick Thornburgh, former Pennsylvania Governor, U.S. Attorney General and United Nations Under-Secretary-General. Thornburgh recently spoke at the law school for a disability rights symposium. Professor Miller is the Director of the UW Disability Studies Program.
• June 23, 2008
  Juvenile sex offenders marked for life - Seattle PI
  "Juvenile sex offenses cannot be sealed -- ever -- and that's huge," said Kim Ambrose, a former public defender who now runs the UW School of Law Child and Youth Advocacy Clinic. The only way to have a juvenile sex offense removed, she said, is to get a pardon from the governor.
• June 19, 2008
  State's child-welfare system must do better by minority kids - Seattle Times
  A recent editorial touched on the issue of racial disproportionality in our child-welfare system, a complex and troubling topic that is receiving a great deal of attention both nationally and within our state. The issues surrounding disproportionality will be addressed at a two-day symposium beginning June 26 at the UW School of Law.
• June 18, 2008
  Can An Entire City Get Itself Removed From Google Maps? - FindLaw.com
  UW law professor Anita Ramasastry, who is currently a visiting law professor at the National University of Ireland-Galway, weighs in on the recent controversy over Near Oaks, Minnesota's campaign to convince Google to remove photos of its residents' homes from the Google Maps "Street View" application.
• June 16, 2008
  Sonics think $10M should buy out Seattle lease - Associated Press
  City of Seattle vs. Sonics begins - KING 5
  Seattle says a deal's a deal; Sonics should stay - Seattle Times
  Sparring continues, trial nears - Tacoma News Tribune
  UW School of Law professor Steve Calandrillo weighs in on the the six-day, no-jury trial in federal court that will settle the final two years of the SuperSonics' lease at KeyArena.
• June 6, 2008
  UW Law School to receive $4 million for new institute - Seattle P-I
  UW Regent Stanley Barer '63 and his wife, Alta, have pledged $4 million to the UW School of Law to create the Barer Institute for Law and Global Human Services.
• June 4, 2008
  Conflicting testimony of expert witnesses can sink an insanity defense - Seattle Times
  In the Naveed Haq case, which ended in a mistrial, jurors became mired in a bog of conflicting diagnoses and medical opinions that bubbled up from a handful of expert witnesses during six weeks of testimony. Conflicting expert testimony is one of the major challenges of a successful insanity defense, said Jim Hardisty, UW professor of law.

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• July 21, 2008
  FTC, UW School of Law Host Meeting to Explore Contactless Payment
  College and university students and professors are invited to attend a meeting on July 24, 2008 at the UW School of Law titled "Pay on the Go: Consumers and Contactless Payment," a free event examining emerging uses of contactless payment devices and their implications.
• July 9, 2008
  UW Law School Announces 2008 Sampson Fellows
  The UW School of Law proudly announces the 2008 recipients of the William Sampson Fellow in Comparative Public Interest Law: Tobias Damm-Luhr 1L, Stephanie Holmes 1L, Kyle Silk-Eglit 1L, and Sara Campbell 1L.
• July 1, 2008
  LRAP Campaign Makes Goal
  With the support of students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends, the UW School of Law is proud to announce that we have met the challenge by the Washington State Legislature to raise $250,000 by June 30, 2008 for a loan repayment assistance program (LRAP) endowment fund.
• June 19, 2008
  Conference to Address Racial Disproportionality in Child-Welfare Systems
  A conference addressing racial disproportionality in child-welfare systems will be held at the UW School of Law June 26 and 27, 2008.
• June 6, 2008
  Barers pledge $4 million to UW School of Law
  The University of Washington School of Law has received a $4 million pledge from UW Regent Stanley Barer '63 and his wife, Alta, to create the Barer Institute for Law and Global Human Services.

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Upcoming law school events:

• Judge Coughenor Hosted Delegation of Russian Judges and Attorneys Through the Open World Program
  Thursday, July 24, 2008 , 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM , 115
• Pay on the Go: Consumers & Contactless Payment
  Thursday, July 24, 2008 , 8:30 AM - 4:45 PM , Room 133
• CASRIP High Technology Protection Summit
  Friday, July 25, 2008 , 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM , Gates Hall Room 138
• CASRIP High Technology Protection Summit
  Saturday, July 26, 2008 , 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM , Gates Hall Room 138
• Washington Lawyers for the Arts Clinic
  Monday, July 28, 2008 , 5:30 PM - 8:50 PM , 115
• Free Law School Information Seminar!
  Wednesday, July 30, 2008 , 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM , Seattle Center - Lopez Room

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