Steve Calandrillo
Professor Calandrillo joined the UW law school faculty in 2000. Prior to teaching, he clerked for Judge Alfred Goodwin on the Ninth Circuit and practiced corporate law at Foster Pepper & Shefelman in Seattle. Professor Calandrillo graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School where he was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law & Economics and a member of the Harvard Journal on Legislation. He has published articles on a wide variety of subjects, including economic analyses of intellectual property rights, eminent domain law, and U.S. health and safety regulatory policy. He also authored articles addressing organ donation incentives, physician-assisted suicide, the Americans with Disabilities Act, sports medicine law, and exemptions to compulsory vaccination laws. He teaches Contract Law, Law & Economics, Law & Medicine, and Secured Transactions, and was selected by the students Philip A. Trautman Professor of the Year in 2003-04 and 2007-08. Prof. Calandrillo serves on the law school's Executive Council and as faculty advisor to Washington Law Review. He and his wife recently won a landmark property rights case before the Washington State Supreme Court on behalf of Washington landowners, Viking v. Holm et al., 155 Wash. 2nd 112.