Upcoming Events

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2026 Black Law Student Association Annual End of Year Event

Thursday, May 14, 2026 | 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. | Sullivan Hall, Seattle University School of Law

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May 2026 Commencement

Saturday, May 16, 2026 | 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. | Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, Susan Brotman Auditorium, Seattle Center, 321 Mercer Street, Seattle, WA 98109

Tickets not required. Directions to McCaw Hall.

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Annual Innovation and Technology Law Conference

Friday, June 5, 2026 | 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. | Virtual event

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Faculty Articles

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Erin M. Carr & Richard Delgado

What is a Red Tie? Some Observations About Words and their Extension — And a Few Words of Comfort for Readers of Recent Supreme Court Jurisprudence (2026).

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Erin Carr faculty profile
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Seth Katsuya Endo

Preventive Transparency in Third-Party Litigation Funding (2025).

120 Northwestern University Law Review 501 

Seth Katsuya Endo faculty profile
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Elizabeth Ford

Alt-Legal Services: Re-Visioning Lawyers' Role in the Fight for Worker Power (2025).

46 Berkeley Journal of Employment & Labor Law 1

 

Elizabeth Ford faculty profile
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Pilar Margarita Hernández Escontrias

Law's Penal-Professional World Order (2026).

94 Fordham Law Review 1321

Pilar Margarita Hernández Escontrías faculty profile

Technology, Innovation Law, and Ethics (TILE) Institute

Seattle U Law’s pathbreaking program prepares future lawyers to practice in this growing area of the law.

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