Students in the News

• Winners of Hillis Clark Martin & Peterson 1L Appellate Advocacy Competition announced The competition's eight finalists made it to the championship round from an original pool of over 160 student competitors. Darin Jones & Drew Duggan won the Gold Bracket, and Mallory Bouchee & Jen Goldstein won the Purple Bracket. See all the winners (5/29/13)
• Alanna Peterson '13 wins Victims' Rights Writing Competition Peterson's paper, "The Second Assault: Pro Se Cross-Examination of Rape Victims," won first prize in the National Crime Victims' Law Institute Annual Law Student Victims' Rights Writing Competition. On June 7, she presents her paper at the NCVLI Conference at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon. 
  (5/28/13)
• Aaron Alva '15 co-authors book chapter (4/11/13)
• Rosenthal Fellowship Announces 2013 Fellowship Class, Including Wes Kovarik '14 - Latin American Herald Tribune Wes is a concurrent J.D. and M.A. student at the University of Washington School of Law and Jackson School of International Studies. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, San Diego in International Studies, with a minor in European History. His focus is on international and comparative law, international security, arms control, and U.S. foreign policy. (4/11/13)
• Recent UW law graduate Eric Harrison '12 works for clean water in Guatemal - The Daily (4/11/13)
• UW law students travel to London to argue licensing terms for standard essential patents before highly regarded international intellectual property judges The Hon. Chief Judge Randall Rader, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit presided over a U.S. trial, Dr. Klaus Grabinski, Federal Supreme Court of Germany over a German trial, and the Honourable Mr. Justice Arnold, High Court of England and Wales over a UK trial. The Judges were then joined by Dr. Gabriella Muscolo, Rome IP Court and Lord Hoffmann, Honorary Professor, Queen Mary University of London for an international appeal.  James Barker '14 who argued before the appeals court said, “All of the people were incredible - Judges, Faculty and Classmates. We got to argue a mock trial directly to the top IP judges in the world! I never expected that I'd get to do that as a student.”
   
  The mock trials were a highlight for the students and their European partner school colleagues after a week of comparative law lectures and a license negotiation.  Janice Goh '13 who argued against James said, "I can't think of a better way to learn international and comparative IP law than to be surrounded by faculty, students, attorneys, and judges from different countries. The curriculum allowed us to contextualize theory with practice through our participation in contract negotiation, mock trial, and appellate advocacy. Not to mention, I made a lot of good friends through the program." 
  (4/9/13)
• Author Shon Hopwood '14 urges Christians to extend grace - Fremont Tribune

  Shon Hopwood knows what it’s like to get a second chance. A bank robber sentenced to federal prison, Hopwood later gave his life to Christ and embarked on a new future. Today, he’s a husband, father and law school student.

  (4/2/13)
• Washington Law Review Joins Leading Law Journals by Adopting Disclosure of Interests Policy (3/28/13)
• A Conversation with Author Shon Hopwood '14 The Public Interest Law Center and the Center on the Administration of Criminal Law at NYU Law present a conversation with 2L Shon Hopwood. (3/21/13)
• How the court came close to gutting landmark free press case. WLR article is cited - National Law Journal (3/19/13)
• The Washington Law Review is pleased to announce publication of Volume 88, Issue 1 - WLR The issue features The Landmark That Wasn't: A First Amendment Play in Five Acts, by Lee Levine & Stephen Wermiel. The article allows readers to access fully interactive content, including an extensive collection of the Justices' personal papers, the Courts' internal memoranda, and other historical records, many of which have not previously been made available online. The issue also features commentary on on The Landmark That Wasn't by Scott Nelson, Robert O'Neil, and Paul Smith, as well as an article on corporate governance by Professor Kristin Johnson. Also in this months' issue, Professor Frederick Schauer responds to Yale Kamisar's featured article on Miranda, published in Volume 87, Issue 4, and Professor Kamisar publishes his rejoinder. Additional articles include comments by 3Ls Kayla Feld and Ross Siler. 
  (3/19/13)
• Is The Right To Counsel A Myth? 2L Shon Hopwood appears on segment discussing whether the right to counsel exists - HuffPost Live Fifty years after the landmark decision in Gideon v. Wainwright, the right to counsel for those charged with crimes apparently exists in principle but not in practice. (3/14/13)
• Jane Schroeder, Priya Rai and Kimberly Schertz, all Class of 2015, win victory in the Washington State House of Representatives UW Legislative Advocacy Clinic had a huge victory in the Washington State House of Representatives. ESHB 1651, The Youth Opportunities Act concerning access to juvenile records, drafted and lobbied by our clinic students passed unanimously. After Republicans removed a half-dozen offenses from the bill, it was passed unanimously 97-0, with Republican Jason Overstreet and Democrat Ruth Kagi speaking strongly in favor. (3/12/13)
• The Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts is pleased to announce Evan Brown '14 as its 2013–2014 Editor-in-Chief Brown grew up in Silicon Valley, and came to Seattle by way of Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. He worked for several years as an editor in the Geography and Cultural Studies group at ABC-CLIO, an academic and educational publishing company. Evan intends to pursue art and entertainment law, and he was attracted to UW in part by the Law, Technology & Arts program and journal. His studies have thus far focused on copyright, trademark, and business law, and he has served as the President of the Advocates for the Arts and Vice President of the TechLaw society. He is excited to work with next year’s editorial board to produce an intellectually stimulating and helpful resource for practitioners dealing with issues at the intersection of the arts and technology.
  (3/11/13)
• Lauren Watts '14 has been elected Editor-in-Chief of the Washington Law Review for the 2013-14 academic year (3/6/13)
• 3L and Gates Scholar Leo Flor has been awarded an Equal Justice Works Fellowship Flor will work to build enduring capacity in Washington for complementary civil representation of criminal justice-involved veterans through client representation, legal-cultural education, and stakeholder collaboration. The fellowship begins  in the Fall of 2013. (3/5/13)
• Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal releases latest issue

  Volume 22, Issue 1  features Where Are We Now and Where Should We Head For? A Reflection on the Place of East Asia on the Map of Socio-legal Studies by Setsuo Miyazawa 

  (3/5/13)
• 2Ls Andrew Morgan, Emily Nelson, and Abigail Pearl will travel to Bogotá, Colombia to compete in the Third Annual Inter-American Sustainable Development Law Moot Court Competition The students are the first team from UW Law to participate in the competition, which will take place March 6-9, 2013 at the campus of Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, and will feature teams from around the world competing in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
  
  Teams will conduct a mock trial before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights addressing issues of indigenous rights, international patent law, human rights, and environmental law. The competition is co-hosted by the Public Interest Law Group at the Law School of Universidad de Los Andes; the Law and Environment Program at the Getulio Vargas Foundation Law School; and Tulane University Law School’s Payson Center for International Development. 
   
  (3/5/13)
• Will Kim '13 and Emily Nelson '14, with Prof. Debbie Maranville, recover workers' unpaid wages The students in the Workers’ Rights Clinic, in partnership with Casa Latina and the Oregon Northwest Workers’ Justice Project,  recovered $6,425.55 in unpaid wages on behalf of four clients for work performed on a Beaverton, Oregon condominiums and apartment complex. 
  (2/27/13)
• 3L Leo Flor appointed by King County Exec as advisor for veteran services Executive Constantine creates regional initiative to connect military veterans and their families (2/12/13)
• Tim Billick and Janice Phaik Lin Goh, both class of 2013, place 2nd in Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court competition Taking 2nd in the premier trademark law national moot court competition in the U.S. qualifies them to compete in Nationals, in Washington, D.C. in March.
  (2/11/13)
• Students Caroline Bercier ’13 and Courtney Skiles ’13 testify in support of wrongful conviction compensation statute - KOMO News Exonerated convicts ask Washington to pay up for lost time, with help from students from IPNW Clinic. (2/8/13)
• The Innocence Project Tries Again with Wrongly Convicted Compensation Bill - Seattle Weekly Thwarted during the last two legislative sessions in an ongoing attempt to push a bill through that provides financial compensation for the wrongly convicted, the Innocence Project - with help from its local, University of Washington-affiliated chapter and sponsor Rep. Tina Orwall (D - Des Moines) - have gotten back on the horse, championing HB 1341. If passed the legislation would require the state to dole out payments to those who were unjustly convicted of a crime they didn't commit. Caroline Bercier, a 3L the IPNW Legislative Advocacy Clinic is quoted in the article. (2/6/13)
• Walter Smith '13, discusses Washington state legally recognizing same-sex marriage by popular vote - Jurist Smith explores two ways that the struggle over same-sex marriage continues in states that have legally recognized same-sex marriage and elsewhere. (1/28/13)
• UW Law students win regional BLSA moot court and mock trial tournaments The Black Law Student Association hosted its regional moot court and mock trial tournaments Jan. 9 - 12  UW law students won both tournaments. The champion teams included 1Ls.  It is rare for 1Ls to participate in national tournaments, and even rarer for them to win. Congratulations to the teams!  (1/22/13)
• Op-ed by 2L Shon Hopwood: Give former prisoners a second chance. - Seattle Times If we are to work our way out of this mass-incarceration hole, everyday people need to take a chance on a fellow human being, writes guest columnist Shon Hopwood. (1/11/13)
• Barker '14 receives Seed IP Law Group’s annual Founders Scholarship

  The scholarship recognizes outstanding students with a keen interest in intellectual property law and who have an undergraduate degree that qualifies him/her to sit for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Bar Exam.

  (1/10/13)
• Public Interest Paths: A conversation with Aline Carton Listfjeld, assistant director of the Center for Public Service Law - Ms. JD Sierra McWilliams '14 interviewed Aline Carton Listfjeld is the assistant director at the University of Washington Center for Public Service Law (11/27/12)
• Law student, Shon Hopwood '13, working to bring worthy prisoner appeals to the Court - National Law Journal Shon Hopwood is not waiting until he graduates from law school before he immerses himself in the specialized field of Supreme Court advocacy. A second-year student and Gates Scholar at the University of Washington School of Law, Hopwood has gained a following among court advocates with his remarkable life story and his recently published memoir Law Man. (11/14/12)
• The Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts (LTA Journal) publishes Fall 2012 Issue - WJLTA

  The LTA Journal publishes concise legal analysis aimed at practicing attorneys on a quarterly basis. This quarter’s

  edition includes four articles by student members of the LTA Journal.

  (11/13/12)
• "Lessons in Fearmongering". UW Law student Jeff DeGroot is quoted - New York Times As citizens in four states are weighing in on same-sex marriage this election day, Op-Ed Columnist Frank Bruni discusses tactics opponents use to defeat the measures. DeGroot, the Notes & Comments Editor for the Washington Law Review, has been giving public speeches in support of the Washington referendum. (11/6/12)
• Tom Wyrwich '12 is cited by Eastern District of Washington Tom Wyrwich's (class of 2012) Comment, 'A Cure for "Public Concern": Washington's New Anti-Slapp Law',   86 Wash. L. Rev. 663 (2011)  was recently cited and quoted by the Eastern District of Washington in Jones v City of Yakima Police Dept. (10/3/12)
• Former bank robber in 2nd year at UW law school - Seattle Times He was convicted of robbing banks in Nebraska, but the University of Washington took a chance and admitted Shon Hopwood to law school, and the Gates Scholarship Program is paying for his education. (9/28/12)
• Book review: Equal justice under law, jailhouse-lawyer style - SCOTUSblog Book Review by Lisa McElroy, who concludes that "Law Man is a must-read for Supreme Court watchers and anyone else who cares about justice." (9/21/12)
• IPNW Supervising Attorney Anna Tolin and law students Alice Jones and Brian Ferrasci-O’Malley secure new trial for Jeramie Davis, based on newly discovered DNA evidence - The Spokesman Deputy Spokane County Prosecutor Dale Nagy told a jury in 2008 to disregard the fact that Davis’ DNA did not match that found on the baseball bat used to kill Allen. A retest of that evidence in 2011 came back as a match to Julio J. Davila, who was convicted earlier this year of the crime. (9/20/12)
• Skilled jailhouse lawyer Is now in law school, thanks to Bill and Melinda Gates - ABA Journal

  Shon Hopwood’s life has taken a turn for the better, thanks to his jailhouse lawyering skills and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

  (9/10/12)
• Op-ed by 3L Adam Sherman: State must restore funding to higher education - Seattle Times (9/9/12)
• 1L Christopher Jordan appointed UW student regent (9/5/12)
• From prison to law school with Shon Hopwood - KUOW Shon Hopwood committed five robberies in rural Nebraska in the late 1990s. He spent 13 years in prison, spending most of his time in the law library learning to write briefs for other prisoners. He wrote his first petition for certiorari — a request that the Supreme Court hear a case — for an inmate on a prison typewriter. (8/31/12)
• Bill Gates sends ex-con, Shon Hopwood '14, to law school after Supreme Court win - Bloomberg Shon Hopwood robbed five banks, went to jail, learned law, wrote a petition that made it to the Supreme Court, served his time, got out, got married, had kids and is now in law school at the University of Washington on a scholarship from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. (8/31/12)
• Giving prisoners a second chance means removing the barriers to reentry, by 2L Shon Hopwood - Huffington Post Gates Public Service Law Scholar and author of 'Law Man', Shon Hopwood calls for better reentry programs for prisoners who have served their time and released into society. (8/20/12)
• Gov. Gregoire selects 1L Christopher Jordan as UW student regent Jordan earned a master’s degree in public administration from the UW’s Evans School of Public Affairs in 2012. He also received a bachelor’s degree in political science in 2010. (8/13/12)
• 2L Shon Hopwood publishes book (8/8/12)
• Sikhi is a way of life, of which we are all a part - Southern Poverty Law Center by Jay Singh, a third-year law student at UW Law and an intern at the Southern Poverty Law Center. (8/8/12)
• Pathways to Global Health: Gates Public Service Law student Michael Windle Windle is one of the students featured in the Pathways to Global Health exhibit, which show students putting their passion for global health in action. The exhibit  is at the Seattle Center and runs through Aug. 19. (8/6/12)
• UW Law Ph.D. Candidate Amy Zhe Peng cited by Court of Appeals Amy Zhe Peng, a research assistant at UW Law’s CASRIP program and Intellectual Property Law Ph.D. Candidate was cited by the Court of Appeals for Federal Circuit in Myspace, Inc v. Graphon Corp. (6/22/12)
• Entrepreneurial Law Clinic student Chris Sheppard ’12 brings farming to the rooftop Chris Sheppard ’12 and UW MBA Chris Bajuk ’12 won the $25,000 grand prize at UW’s Annual Business Plan Competition last month. Their startup company, UrbanHarvest, promises healthy, tasty and environmentally sustainable produce grown on rooftops. (6/15/12)
• UW Law’s Immigration Law Clinic defends client from deportation to Vietnam Among the Immigration Law Clinic's victories this school year, Ben Harris ’12 and MariRuth Petzing ’13 successfully defended 30-year-old Khuong Ta against deportation. Ta faced deportation to Vietnam after his family fled from the country when he was an infant. (6/15/12)
• UW 1L Emily Nelson receives Laurel Rubin Farm Worker Justice Internship (6/7/12)
• Immigration Law Clinic defends client from deportation to Vietnam (6/5/12)
• UW 1L Alyson Dimmitt Gnam receives Peggy Browning Fellowship (6/5/12)
• UW Law Ph.D. Candidate Amy Zhe Peng cited by Court of Appeals (6/5/12)
• UW 1L Laura Powell receives Susman Godfrey Fellowship (6/5/12)
• UW 3L Dylan Tessier advocates for Centralia man serving 92-year sentence (5/31/12)
• The Peggy Browning Fund has awarded a 10-week summer fellowship to 1L Alyson Dimmitt Gnam (5/22/12)
• UW 1L Laura Powell receives Susman Godfrey Fellowship (5/22/12)
• UW 3L Carolyn McConnell receives the Mary Ellen Krug Scholarship (5/22/12)
• Erin M. Pettigrew ’12, Fellow at Initiative for Public Interest Law at Yale Erin M. Pettigrew, ’12, has accepted a fellowship with the Initiative for Public Interest Law at Yale. The Initiative funds innovative, pioneering projects that serve underrepresented communities, providing financial support for one year. (5/14/12)
• The Need for Congressional Action to Finance Arsenic Reductions in Drinking Water Rebecca Levine’s (Class of ’12) article will be published November 2012 in the Journal of Environmental Health. (5/11/12)
• Mallory Allen '12, winner of Best Oral Advocate Award Mallory Allen, class of '12, won the Best Oral Advocate Ward at the mock trial competition presided over by Judge John C. Coughenour on May 11, 2012. (5/9/12)
• Adam Sherman '13 reelected as GPSS vice president (5/4/12)
• Jeff Barnum '12 argues for amending the Stolen Valor Act to better comply with free speech - Jurist (5/2/12)
• 1L Sierra McWilliams writes about an emerging field in public service law: Animal Law - Ms. JD (4/16/12)
• 3L Jeff Barnum's amicus argument in United States v. Ali - CAAFlog (4/10/12)
• Adam Engst ’12 appears on Wheel of Fortune Engst will appear on the game show Wednesday, May 2 at 7 p.m. (4/6/12)
• 3Ls Julia Conway and Matthew Viers Finish Strong in Competition (4/1/12)
• A Push To Curb Juvenile Shackling - KUOW Should juvenile courts be allowed to shackle defendants during court appearances? 2L Adam Sherman wants the state legislature to limit the use of shackles. (3/20/12)
• UW team finds success at the Sports Law Competition hosted by Tulane University UW Law 2Ls Nate Bingham, Ashley Sherwood and Mark Tyson competed in the "Mardi Gras Invitational National Sports Law Competition" sponsored by Tulane University over President’s Day weekend. (3/2/12)
• Winners of the 2012 Falknor Appellate Advocacy Moot Court Competiton Announced The annual Falknor Appellate Advocacy Moot Court final competition was held on February 22, 2012. The winners are: 1st Place Brief: Josephine Ennis & Brad Lewis; 2nd Place Brief: Jeff DeGroot & David Crawford; 3rd Place Brief: Anna Crary & Heather Griffith. 1st Place Speaker: Josephine Ennis; 2nd Place Speaker: Brad Lewis; 3rd Place Speaker: Jeff DeGroot Champions: Josephine Ennis & Brad Lewis (3/2/12)
• UW team wins at the University of San Diego’s Thorsnes Vis Commercial Arbitration Pre-Moot UW law 2Ls Brie Coyle and Andy Murphy and UW law 3L Erin Pettigrew competed in the Thorsnes Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot at the University of San Diego, Feb. 18-19. The team made it into the finals, with Coyle and Murphy taking first place in the competition, as well as 2 of the 3 speaker awards. (3/1/12)
• Opinion analysis: The Court goes back to school - SCOTUSblog UW Law 1L Shon Hopwood analyzes a recent Supreme Court decision, Kurns v. Railroad Friction Products. (3/1/12)
• UW Law team wins Western Regional Transactional Law Meet UW law 3Ls Julia Conway and Matthew Viers earned first place overall and "best draft" awards at the 2012 Western Regional Transactional LawMeet at UCLA School of Law, February 17. The awards were based on the UW team's representation of a hypothetical client in negotiations against teams representing the counterparty. (2/24/12)
• 3L Jeff Barnum's article cited by U.S. Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit In United States v. Strandlof, the Tenth Circuit upheld the Stolen Valor Act, which criminalizes lying about receiving a military award. The article written by Jeff Barnum  '12  in the December 2011 issue of the Washington Law Review was cited in the decision. (2/2/12)
• Flea-Markets and Foreign Aid: Things Aren't Always What They Seem - Huffington Post Rachel Cook '13 examines the United States' current budget allocations on Defense and Security--20%-- in comparison to non-security related international assistance--less than 1%. (1/17/12)
• Reyna Rollolazo ‘14 received the LERA and Samuel B. Bassett Scholarships After graduating UW in Law, Societies & Justice with a minor in Diversity, Rollolazo has continued her family's legacy of advocating for social justice by interning with the EEOC, the criminal justice reform group Justice Works!, and the Japanese American Citizen’s League. (1/1/12)
• Students from Ethiopia studying Law at the UW - Ethiopian Community Mutual Association Five students from Ethiopia are studying for master of laws degrees at the UW School of Law. Richard Wentzell '08, is dean of the Haramaya College in Ethiopia. He and Professor Jon Eddy helped arrange full-tuition scholarships for the students. (12/12/11)
• Slicing through the great legal Gordian Knot - Fordham Law Review Shon Hopwood '14 publishes article in Fordham Law Review discussing the problems facing pro se litigators and possible ways to ameliorate those problems. (12/5/11)
• Law School clinics serve students and the public - UW Regional & Community Relations Since 1979, the UW School of Law has offered students the opportunity to represent real clients or mediate real cases by working with faculty members through the Clinical Law Program. (12/1/11)
• UW School of Law places #16 in Best Value schools ranking - National Jurist The National Jurist article on the most affordable schools highlights UW Law. Dean Kellye Testy and 3L Rebecca Levine are quoted. (11/28/11)
• UW Law student receives Martha H. Duggan Fellowship in Labor Studies Carolyn McConnell '12 was awarded the fellowship from the Bridges Center for Labor Studies. (11/11/11)
• IFAP receives Take Action Award from the King County Coalition Against Domestic Violence Immigrant Families Advocacy Project (IFAP) trains and matches law students with pro bono attorneys and immigrant survivors of domestic violence. The Take Action Awards honors those who have helped raise awareness about domestic violence. (11/11/11)
• Washington Law Review publishes its latest edition Washington Law Review is a student-run and student-edited scholarly legal journal that publishes four times a year. (11/8/11)
• Argument preview: Preemption under the Locomotive Inspection Act - SCOTUS Blog UW Law student Shon Hopwood previews the Supreme Court oral arguments in the Kurns v. Railroad Friction Products Corp case. (11/8/11)
• Education Finance Litigation: Adequacy v. Equity - King County Bar Bulletin Lara Lebherz '13 writes about educational finance and its effect on equal educational opportunities for all children. (9/30/11)
• The U.S. government must not forget Iraqi allies who assisted forces - Seattle Times Gates Scholar and 2L Yurij Rudensky argues the U.S. government must fulfill its promises to Iraqis who assisted American soldiers during the war in Iraq. Too few special immigrant visas have been issued to bring these allies out of harm's way. (8/10/11)
• Gates Scholar's article published Hillary Hammell, a 3L, published her article, Is the Right to Health a Necessary Precondition for Gender Equality?, in the recent symposium issue of the New York University Review of Law and Social Change.  (7/10/11)
• PacRim publishes Spring edition University of Washington School of Law recently published Issue 20.3 of the Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, which features analysis of legal issues and developments in jurisdictions bordering the Pacific Ocean, including Asia, Oceania, and South American countries. (6/22/11)

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