Janet Ainsworth
John D. Eshelman Professor of Law
Room 428, Seattle University School of Law
Phone: (206) 398-4017
E-mail: jan@seattleu.edu
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Janet Ainsworth | |
Teaches Torts; Criminal Procedure; Child, Family, and State; and Law, Society, and Social Change
B.A. magna cum laude Brandeis University 1974: Phi Beta Kappa. M.A. Yale University 1977. J.D. cum laude Harvard Law School 1980.
Professor Ainsworth joined the staff of the Seattle-King County Public Defender Association in 1980, serving in the appeals and felony divisions and as training coordinator from 1985 to 1988, when she joined this faculty. She served as Associate Dean for Faculty Development from 2001 to 2005, and has been honored by students three times with teaching awards.
Her scholarship has engaged a variety of issues, including the application of linguistics research to legal issues, criminal procedure, feminist critical theory, juvenile law, comparative law, imperial Chinese law, and law and social science. She is the author of numerous book chapters and articles appearing both in peer-reviewed social science journals and in law reviews including the Yale Law Journal, the Cornell Law Review, and the Washington University Law Quarterly. Her articles have been reprinted in five anthologies.
In addition to scholarly writing and presentations, Professor Ainsworth is active in a number of other professional endeavors. She has served on the Executive Committee of the Criminal Justice Section and as chair of the Law and Anthropology Section of the AALS and has served on several committees of the Law and Society Association. Her pro bono activities include serving on the Board of Directors of the Seattle-King County Public Defender, writing amicus curiae briefs to the Washington State Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court, lecturing at dozens of Continuing Legal Education seminars, serving as a member of numerous state criminal justice task forces, and serving as consultant to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, from which she received its Outstanding Service Award in recognition of her contributions.