LAW OF SUSTAINABLE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Graduate Faculty and Staff

More than a quarter of the Law School's faculty members teach in the areas of international, comparative, and environmental law.

Faculty with related expertise and interests:

Craig H. Allen, Professor of Law and of Marine Affairs

B.S. 1979, Portland State
J.D. 1989, University of Washington
Professor Allen is a member of the faculty of the School of Marine Affairs and the School of Law. He joined the faculty in 1994, following his retirement from the United States Coast Guard. He holds an oceangoing vessel master's license and is a member of the Maritime Law Association and the Nautical Institute. Professor Allen's teaching and research interests include admiralty, law of the sea, marine environmental law, fisheries management and enforcement, and marine trade and transportation.

Gregory A. Hicks, Professor of Law

B.A. 1972, Yale
J.D. 1978, University of Texas
Professor Hicks's recent research and writing has been on water law topics, and he teaches classes in the land use and water law curriculum as well as some of the basic torts, securities regulation, and business associations courses. He is vice chair of the Public Lands Subcommittee of the ABA's Section on Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Law and is a member of the editorial board of the Section's law journal, Natural Resources & Environment. Prior to attending law school, he was a Rhodes Scholar. He worked for the Import-Export Bank of the United States and practiced law with Perkins Coie in Seattle and Washington, D.C., before joining the faculty of the University of Washington School of Law in 1984.

Linda S. Hume, Professor of Law

B.A. 1967, California State (Los Angeles)
J.D. 1970, University of California, Los Angeles
Professor Hume's teaching and research interests include international commercial law, sales, payment systems, and negotiations. She also teaches Legal Research and Analysis and has been a visiting professor at Peking University and Kobe University.

Stewart Jay, Professor of Law

A.B. 1973, Georgetown
J.D. 1976, Harvard
Professor Jay has taught at the University of Washington since 1980. 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 University Press, 1997). 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.

Richard O. Kummert, D. Wayne and Anne Gittinger Professor of Law

B.S. 1953, Illinois Institute of Technology
M.B.A. 1955, Northwestern
LL.B. 1961, Stanford
Professor Kummert teaches courses in the law related to business associations and business planning. In addition, he is the co-author (with Professor Misao Tatsuta) of materials on comparative Japanese-American corporate law. The materials form the basis for the course in United States-Japanese Corporate Relations.

Patricia C. Kuszler, Professor of Law

B.A. 1974, Mills College
M.D. 1978, Mayo Medical School
J.D. 1991, Yale
Professor Kuszler joined the faculty in 1994 to teach in and develop a health law program after practicing health law with Hogan & Hartson in Washington, D.C. Her primary teaching and research interests include health care finance and regulation, health insurance fraud and abuse, research misconduct, and biotechnology and the law. Prior to pursuing a career in the law, she practiced emergency medicine in New York and Connecticut and later served as medical director for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Connecticut.

Roy L. Prosterman, Professor of Law

A.B. 1954, Chicago
LL.B. 1958, Harvard
For more than twenty years, Professor Prosterman has been a leading scholar on the law of international development and has helped develop land reform programs around the world. He teaches a course on the legal problems of economic development. He is the president of the Rural Development Institute, a nonprofit corporation that strives to improve the lives of the world's poor and to strengthen rural economies.

Anita Ramasastry, Associate Professor of Law

B.A. 1988, Harvard University
M.A. 1990, University of Sydney
J.D. 1992, Harvard Law School
Professor Ramasastry's research interests include commercial law and banking, private international law and comparative law and banking, private international law and comparative law. She had previously served as a staff attorney at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as associate at the firm White and Case in Budapest, Hungary, and assistant professor of law at the Central European University in Budapest. 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.

William H. Rodgers, Jr., Professor of Law

B.A. 1961, Harvard
LL.B. 1965, Columbia
Author of the four-volume West treatise on environmental law, Professor Rodgers is one of the foremost authorities on U.S. environmental law. He teaches courses in environmental law, natural resources law, and public land law.

Toshiko Takenaka, Professor of Law

LL.B. 1981, Seikei University
LL.M. 1990, Ph.D. 1992, University of Washington
Professor Takenaka is the Director of the Center for Advanced Study and Research on Intellectual Property. She teaches courses in legal protection of technology, international and comparative patent and copyright law, and intellectual property, as well as an advanced tutorial in Japanese legal documents.

Veronica Taylor, Professor of Law

B.A. 1986 (Honours), Monash University, Australia
LL.B. 1988, Monash University, Australia
LL.M. 1992, University of Washington
Professor Taylor is Director of the Program in Asian and Comparative Law. She was previously a Senior Lecturer and Associate Director (Japan) of the Asian Law Center in the Law Faculty at the University of Melbourne. She is a founding editor of the journal Asian Law and has served as President of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia. She has been a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo and a Research Fellow at the Australia-Japan Research Centre, Australian National University. Her fields of specialization are Japanese law and society, commercial law in Asia, contracts, and international transactions.

Michael Townsend, Associate Professor of Law

B.A. 1973, University of Michigan
M.A. 1978, University of Michigan
Ph.D. 1982, University of Michigan
J.D. 1989, Yale
Professor Townsend's legal interest centers on law, science and technology, especially intellectual property and the use of quantitative methods in legal reasoning. He has published work in mathematics and theoretical computer science, and he has served as a referee for several technical journals.

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)

See more information about the East Asian Law Department of the Gallagher Law Library.