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2007 News

• UW School of Law Moot Court Team Advances to National Finals
  The team representing the UW School of Law will advance to the finals of the National Moot Court Competition in New York City in early 2008. (Nov. 28, 2007)
• Race Judicata 2007
  Photos from the 2007 Race Judicata. (Nov. 14, 2007)
• Law School to Honor Student Ben Athay (1975-2007)
  The UW School of Law will hold a memorial service honoring Benjamin Grant Athay Friday, October 12, 4-5 p.m., in Room 138 of William Gates Hall. Athay, who would have been a second-year law student, died unexpectedly September 1, 2007 as the result of an undetected brain hemorrhage. (Oct. 4, 2007)
• UW's Bingisser Named First-Team Academic All-American - Washington Huskies
  2L Martin Bingisser earned the rare distinction of garnering both academic and athletic All-America honors in one year. (June 27, 2007)
• 2007 grad wins scholarship to law school - Advance (UConn)
  University of Connecticut alumnus and UW law school 1L Salmun Kazerounian has been awarded a William H. Gates Public Service Law Scholarship. (June 18, 2007)
• Engagements: Douglas and Palubi - Everett Herald
  Aislinn Leslie Douglas of Everett and 2L Kamil Peter Palubicki of Lake Stevens plan a November wedding at St. Michael's Catholic Church in Snohomish. (June 13, 2007)
• Maleng was our own Atticus Finch - Seattle P-I
  1L Jason Sykes writes that, like Atticus Finch, Maleng was not universally loved, but the criticisms leveled against him inspire almost more admiration than any kudos could. (May 31, 2007)
• New GPSS officers to build on this year’s successes - The Daily
  2L Dave Brown was elected as the 2007-08 Graduate and Professional Student Senate president. (May 10, 2007)
• In the Hall: The Road Through - The Stranger (Seattle)
  People who want to change politics in Seattle no longer run for office. They start groups instead, like 1L Gary Manca who chairs a new group called Friends of Seattle. (May 9, 2007)
• Local Korean community apologetic, and fearful after Virginia Tech shooting - Seattle P-I
  UW law student Chris Kang, who has spoken to shaken Korean friends across the country after the shootings, asked for understanding. (April 18, 2007)
• E-Law's Bright Future - U.S. News & World Report
  The intersection of technology, commerce, and the law is the new terra incognita of the legal world, and Jamila Johnson hopes to be one of its pioneers. The third-year law student at the UW edits the school's Shidler Journal of Law, Commerce + Technology, an online publication that focuses on E-law.
• Cruise ship waste: All ashore? - Seattle P-I
  Officials at the Department of Ecology would like cruise ships to look at pumping waste ashore, where it would be treated and used for fertilizer on farms and forestlands.  Students Nathan Phillips and Rob Hatfield from the law school's Berman Environmental Law Clinic have been working with their client, Bluewater Network (an environmental activist group), and the Port of Seattle. (February 9, 2007)
• UW law students win national competition - Seattle P-I
  UW School of Law students Dustin Buehler (3L), Candice Tewell (2L), and Aaron Thomson (3L) won the Association of the Bar of the City of New York National Moot Court Competition. (February 6, 2007)
• UW School of Law Students Claim Victory at National Moot Court Competition
  UW School of Law students Dustin Buehler (3L), Candice Tewell (2L), and Aaron Thomson (3L) won the Association of the Bar of the City of New York National Moot Court Competition yesterday. (February 2, 2007)
• Answering the Call to Advocacy: Michael Peters - Campaign UW Newsletter
  When Bill and Melinda Gates created a public law scholarship last year in honor of Bill’s father’s 80th birthday, it was also a gift to 1L Michael Peters, a former acting assistant professor of communication at the UW. (Winter 2007)