Seattle University School of Law

This Week in Legal History: Thanksgiving
In 1777, the Continental Congress passed the first official Thanksgiving Day proclamation.  In 1817, New York proclaimed a day of Thanksgiving, soon followed by many other states.  Abraham Lincoln set the day as the last Thursday in November.  FDR changed it to the fourth Thur......sday in Novemb...

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What Makes DNA So Difficult?
After reading the NYT magazine article, writing about it a bit and then reading the comments to my posts and on the magazine site, I’m left with this question:   What makes DNA so difficult?   Surely it must have seemed that having reliable and relatively inexpensive DNA testing would m.........

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Law Library’s Thanksgiving Hours Posted
The Law Library will be closed Thanksgiving day.  See our Library Hours page for service hours over the weekend.

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The New Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations, Women of Color and Where We Get Our Research
The new rules on breast cancer screening put out by the United States Preventive Taskforce caught my attention as I was driving home Monday because I should have had my mammogram screening eight months ago. I have been purpo......sely avoiding it. So the news that mammograms are no longer needed for...

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Professor Ainsworth presents "English Only' Policies in the Workplace: Linguistic Ideology in Action" as part of the Influential Voices Lecture Series.

Lesbian Mothers and Sperm Donors, Known or Otherwise
Lesbian couples who wish to have children born to one of the women use donor sperm.  Instead of the general discussion about sperm donors (or sperm providers–it is true that since most men are paid “donor” is perhaps misleading) that has predominated on the blog re......cent...

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This Week in Legal History: Time Zones first put in use
Rail travel transformed the world in many ways, including creating time zones.  Prior to the railroads, time was set by the sun.  As a result, cities and towns adhered to “local times” in their locality.  Timekeeping on a broad geographic scale was a logistica......l nightmare.  To solve t...

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Join us as Mr. Canton address some of the key challenges in the Americas concerning international human rights violations. Mr. Canton, of Argentine nationality, directs the Inter-American Commission ...

Assistant Professor Thomas Antkowiak and three students from his International Human Rights Clinic presented oral arguments before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington, D.C.

Reducing Mercury Emissions From Coal-Fired Power Plants: Yes We Can (And Could Have, Years Ago)
Three recent developments in the saga of efforts to regulate mercury emissions from coal-fired utilities are significant. Early last week, Michigan became the twenty-third state to require coal-fired utilities within its j......urisdiction to reduce their mercury emissions. Michigan’s regulation r...

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Sperm Donors and Fathers
This story appeared in what was once our local paper and is now internet only.   (And it looks like they picked it up from Redbook.)  It’s a fine account of one’s man discovery that he and his wife needed to use a sperm donor and his thoughts about that process.   I don̵...

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Gain an edge in networking and job searching with LexisNexis
In conjunction with Seattle University’s Center for Professional Development, there will be two Lexis trainings next week introducing students to searches and sources available on LexisNexis to help gain an edge in networking and job searching. These classe......s will cover: How to target...

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Sorry for the Silence
I was travelling for a bit and I’m afraid I came home sick.  I’ll post really soon–promise.  In the meantime, I apologize for my lack of attention to this site.    Please bear with me.      

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Kiyemba v. Obama
On October 20th, the United States Supreme Court granted cert to a case that will decide whether the federal courts can grant the release of Guantanamo detainees into the U.S. According to the New York Times, the case involves 13 Uighur men who were captured in Afghanistan or Pakistan after th...

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