Law of Sustainable International Development Graduate Program
Faculty
Craig H. Allen
Judson Falknor Professor of Law
Professor of Law
Professor Allen joined the UW law school faculty in 1996, following his retirement from the U.S. Coast Guard. He was the Honor Graduate in his law school class, served as Editor-in-Chief of the Washington Law Review and Vice President of the Moot Court Honor Board. At graduation he received the Vivian Carkeek Prize for legal writing and was inducted into the Order of the Coif and the Order of Barristers. His teaching and research interests include maritime and international law, civil litigation, national and homeland security law, and constitutional law issues in the conduct of international relations. He is a licensed master mariner, a fellow in both the Nautical Institute and the Royal Institute of Navigation, and a member of the U.S. Maritime Law Association and the Secretary of Homeland Security Navigation Safety Advisory Council. Professor Allen is on the board of editors of Ocean Development and International Law and authored Farwell's Rules of the Nautical Road (8th ed. 2005). He is admitted to practice in Oregon and Washington and in the Ninth and Federal Circuits, the Court of International Trade, and the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2003 he was named a Washington Law Foundation Scholar, and in 2005 he was appointed the Judson Falknor Professor of Law. In 2006, the members of the Washington Law Review honored Professor Allen with their "Distinguished Alumni Award." During the 2006-07 academic year he served as the Charles H. Stockton Chair in International Law at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, RI.
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Gregory A. Hicks
Professor of Law
Professor Hicks joined the UW law school faculty in 1984. He teaches courses in property, water law, and public land and natural resources law. He came to the law school after four years with the Seattle firm of Perkins, Coie, Stone, Olsen & Williams, and two years as special assistant to the chairman of the U.S. Export-Import Bank. Professor Hicks was the recipient of a Rhodes scholarship for study at Oxford University in 1972 and while a law student was an instructor in the legal writing program at the University of Texas Law School and a member of the Texas Law Review. Professor Hicks is a member of the American Law Institute and has been a visiting faculty member at the University of Texas Law School (2001) and the University of Arizona College of Law (1998). Professor Hicks has served on the boards of a number of non-profit organizations, including The Nature Conservancy (Washington, 2000-07) and the Pacific Forest Trust (2001-04). He has also participated on governmental advisory and oversight panels, including the National Endowment for the Arts and the Water Law Advisory Panel of the Washington State Attorney General's Office.
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Linda S. Hume
Professor of Law
Before coming to the UW School of Law in 1972, Professor Hume clerked for the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles and taught at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her teaching and research interests include international commercial law, sales, secured transactions, and land use. She has served as a Commissioner on the Washington State Human Rights Commission and on a Committee of the Washington State Bar Association that drafted the Real Estate Contract Forfeiture Act. She is a member of the California and Washington Bar Associations and the Order of the Coif. Professor Hume taught International Sales at the University of Peking in 1990 and was a visiting scholar at the University of Kobe in 1991.
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Stewart Jay
Professor of Law
Professor Jay has taught at the UW law school since 1980. Prior to coming to Washington he taught at the University of North Carolina for two years. Before entering teaching, Professor Jay clerked for two years, first with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and then for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Warren E. Burger. His teaching and research interests include constitutional law and constitutional history. Professor Jay is the author of Most Humble Servants: The Advisory Role of Early Judges (Yale 1997). He has worked extensively to assure the reproductive rights of women, particularly access to safe and legal abortions. During 1984-85 he was a visiting professor at Georgetown University Law Center.
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Richard Kummert
D. Wayne & Anne Gittinger Professor of Law
Professor of Law
Professor Kummert practiced as an associate at the Los Angeles firm of O'Melveny & Myers for three years before joining the UW law school faculty in 1964. He teaches courses in business organization taxation, corporate law, and business planning to second and third year students, and serves as faculty advisor to the Washington Law Review. Professor Kummert is a member of the California bar.
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Patricia Kuszler
Director, Multidisciplinary Initiatives
Charles I. Stone Professor of Law
Professor of Law
Professor Kuszler is the Charles I. Stone Professor of Law and the Director of the Center for Law, Science and Global Health. The center's major components include the J.D. concentration track in health law; major collaborations with the UW Institute for Public Health Genetics, the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice, and the Global Health and Justice Project; a J.D./M.H.A. and two J.D./M.P.H. concurrent programs and a variety of grant-funded multidisciplinary research and teaching projects.
Professor Kuszler is the Principal Investigator of the International Biomedical Research Ethics Fellowship Grant and Co-Primary Investigator of the Center for Genomics and Healthcare Equality funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute. In addition to her law faculty appointment, Professor Kuszler is an Adjunct Professor in the UW School of Medicine (Department of Bioethics and Humanities) and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health (Department of Health Services).
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Roy Prosterman
Emeritus Professor of Law
Professor Prosterman practiced as an associate to the New York firm of Sullivan & Cromwell for six years before coming to the University of Washington in 1965. His research and teaching focus on legal issues of land reform, development, international, and property law fields, with a seminar in Legal Problems of Economic Development. He is also the director of the LL.M. Program in Law of Sustainable International Development. He has published Surviving to 3000: An Introduction to Lethal Conflict, (with Jeffrey Riedinger) Land Reform and Democratic Development, and (with Timothy Hanstad) Agrarian Reform and Grassroots Development. He has done field work in 27 developing countries. He received UW's coveted outstanding Public Service Award in 1990, and was appointed the University's first Corbally Professor in Public Service in Fall 1991. He has twice been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. In April of 2003 he received the Gleitsman Foundation International Activist Award at Harvard University, honoring achievement in alleviating world poverty. He was selected for the award by a Board of Judges that included: former United Nations Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar and Nobel Peace Prize laureates Shimon Peres, Mairead Maguire, Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu and Adolfo Perez Esquivel. He and three other Gleitsman honorees share a $100,000 prize and received an original sculpture by artist May Lin, creator of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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William Rodgers
Stimson Bullitt Professor of Law
Professor of Law
Professor Rodgers began teaching at the UW School of Law in 1967, spent seven years at Georgetown University Law School, and returned to the UW in 1979. Professor Rodgers specializes in natural resource law and is recognized as a founder of environmental law. He teaches Environmental Law, and Oceans and Coastal Law. Professor Rodgers is actively involved in the Environmental Law and Litigation course, as well as the Berman Environmental Law Clinic. He has produced the first volume of his two-volume treatise entitled Environmental Law in Indian Country (Thomson West 2005) and co-authored the recently published The Si'lailo Way: Salmon, Indians and Law on the Columbia River (Carolina Academic Press 2006). He has been actively involved in the Exxon Valdez "reopener," including publishing The Exxon Valdez Reopener: Natural Resource Damage Settlements, and Roads Not Taken, in the Alaska Law Review. The topics of his seminars have included Puget Sound, the Duwamish River, Hanford, sacred Native American sites, and forest practices. Professor Rodgers was selected as the UW recipient of the Bloedel Professorship of Law from 1987-92. In 1999, Professor Rodgers was selected as the first UW Stimson Bullitt Professor of Environmental Law and is serving his second five-year appointment. He is admitted to the bar in New York, Washington, and the District of Columbia and has appeared in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Indian tribes. Professor Rodgers recently served on the committee for Defining Best Available Sciences for Fisheries Management with The National Academies. He completed a six-year term as a member of the Board of Environmental Studies and Toxicology, National Academy of Sciences.
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Anita Ramasastry
Director, Shidler Center for Law, Commerce & Technology
D. Wayne & Anne Gittinger Professor of Law
Professor of Law
Professor Ramasastry joined the faculty in 1996. Her research interests include commercial law, banking and payments systems, law and development and comparative law. Her current research focuses on the accountability of economic actors in conflict and weak governance zones. During 2008, she will be a Fulbright Scholar and visiting professor at the Irish Center for Human Rights - NUI Galway.
She has served as a staff attorney at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, an associate attorney at the international law firm of White & Case in Budapest, Hungary, and assistant professor of law at the Central European University in Budapest, founded by financier George Soros. She was the symposium editor for the Harvard International Law Journal and has clerked for Justice Alan B. Handler of the New Jersey Supreme Court.
In 1998-99, she served as a special attorney and advisor to a special claims resolution tribunal in Zurich, Switzerland, established to resolve claims to World War II-era bank accounts. She has been a visiting professor and Atlantic Fellow in Public Policy at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary Westfield College, and University of London. Professor Ramasastry served as a visiting scholar at the British Financial Services Authority. During the fall of 2001, she was a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.
Professor Ramasastry is a commissioner and chair of the Washington state delegation to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. She has been a consultant and advisor to the U.S. Agency for International Development, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the U.S. Department of Commerce Commercial Law Development Program, the European Commission, Global Witness and the Open Society Institute. She has been an advisor to the International Commission of Jurists Expert Panel on Corporate Complicity and has participated in several expert consultations convened by the United Nations Secretary General's Special Representative on Business and Human Rights. She is also the project leader for the Commerce, Crime and Conflict project coordinated by the Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies in Norway.
She has been recognized by the students as the Philip A. Trautman Professor of the Year in 1997, 2003, and 2006. In 1998, she received the UW Distinguished Teaching Award and in 2002, she received the UW Outstanding Public Service Award for her work with battered immigrant women and children. She has also received the Amicus Award from the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project for this work in 2007. Ramasastry received the Outstanding Academician Award from the North American South Asian Bar Association in 2004. In 2007, she was selected as one of 25 fellows in the Asian Society's Asia 21Young Leaders Forum.
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Toshiko Takenaka
Associate Director, Graduate Program in Intellectual Property Law and Policy
Director, CASRIP
Washington Research Foundation/W. Hunter Simpson Professor of Law
Professor of Law
Professor Takenaka, a Washington Research Foundation Simpson Professor of Law, joined the UW law school faculty in 1993 and teaches Patent Law, Advanced Patent Law, Intellectual Property and Intellectual Property Innovations in Science and Technology. She is the Director of Center for Advanced Study and Research on Intellectual Property (CASRIP) and the Associate Director of the Intellectual Property Law and Policy LL.M. Program.
After receiving a Bachelor of Law degree from Seikei University, Tokyo, Professor Takenaka pursued a successful career in patent prosecution and management with Texas Instruments Japan Ltd., where she served as a patent prosecution specialist. In 1986, she passed the Japanese Patent Attorney (Benrishi) Bar and worked as an associate for the Yamasaki Law and Patent Office.
Professor Takenaka received her LL.M. in 1990 and her Ph.D. in Comparative Law in 1992 from the UW School of Law. She was a visiting scholar with the Max Planck Institute for Domestic and International Intellectual Property in Munich, Germany, and a visiting professor at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. She has extensively published in the field of comparative patent law and is a frequent speaker for academic and professional seminars focusing on patent law. She is on the board of editors for Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice.
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Veronica Taylor
Director, Asian Law Center
Dan Fenno Henderson Professorship in East Asian Legal Studies
Professor of Law
Professor Taylor joined the faculty in 2001. As Director of the Asian Law Center she is responsible for the J.D., LL.M., Ph.D., and Visiting Scholar programs in Asian, Comparative and Development Law. She leads a team of fifteen faculty and staff who carry out the Center's teaching, research and policy work on Afghanistan, Central Asia, Indonesia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. She serves as a faculty advisor to the Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal.
Professor Taylor specializes in commercial law and society in Asia, regulation, and law reform in transition economies. She has published extensively on commercial law in Japan and Indonesia, on regulation, law and society in Asia and on the 21st century challenges of law and development.
She has over twenty years' experience as a scholar and consultant participating in and managing projects for the U.S. Agency for International Development, World Bank, Asian Development Bank and AUSAID. She has designed law reform and legal training projects focused on Afghanistan, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Egypt, Indonesia, Japan, Mongolia, Vietnam, and the United States.
Professor Taylor is the Project Director for the U.S. Department of State Afghan Legal Educators Project based at the Asian Law Center and in Afghanistan, which is designed to help professionalize the Afghan justice sector personnel, reconstruct the criminal justice system, and foster development of the rule of law. She also directs, with Professor Susan Whiting (UW Political Science) a State Department-funded multi-year project on Empowering Rural Communities: Legal Aid and the Rule of Law in Rural China, which both delivers and studies the effects of legal aid in some of China's poorest provinces.
With Professors Tom Ginsburg (Illinois) and John Ohnesorge (Wisconsin), Professor Taylor established the new Rule of Law, State-building and Transition Collaborative Research Network with the Law and Society Association and is active in shaping new intellectual approaches to law and development initiatives.
Before joining the Law School Professor Taylor was a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo and tenured as Associate Director of the Asian Law Centre, University of Melbourne. She maintains her appointment as an Associate of the Australia-Japan Research Centre, Australian National University.
She serves on a number of UW and professional committees relating to Asia and globalization. She is currently a member of the American Advisory Committee for the Japan Foundation and Vice-President of the Urasenke Foundation, Seattle.
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Michael Townsend
Associate Professor of Law
Professor Townsend joined the UW law school faculty in 1992 and has taught Contracts, Torts, Quantitative Methods in the Law, and Copyrights and Trademarks. He also has taught mathematical logic in the Department of Philosophy. Prior to his arrival at the UW, he was on the mathematics faculty at Harvey Mudd College, and the computer science faculty at Columbia University. He was a research scientist at Bell Laboratories.
Professor Townsend's interests include law, science, and technology and the use of quantitative methods in legal reasoning. He has published on the use of statistics in legal proceedings and on mathematics and theoretical computer science. He has served as a referee for several technical journals. While at Yale Law School, he was Articles Editor for the Yale Law Journal and Senior Editor for The Yale Journal on Regulation. Also at Yale, he was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law, Economics and Public Policy.
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East Asian Law Librarians
William B. McCloy, Assistant Librarian for East Asian Law (primary
contact for Chinese & Korean requests)
Robert R. Britt, Library Associate (primary contact for Japanese
requests)
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East Asian Law Department of the Gallagher Law Library.