Craig H. Allen

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 (8^th 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.