Microsoft Director of Compliance and Responsible AI Catherine Romero ’96, who works on Microsoft’s philanthropic AI for Good team, received the 2025 TILE Alumni Award for her mentorship of law students.

This year's Scholars for Justice intend to take their law degrees back to their hometowns to increase legal access for underserved groups.

The National Jurist named Seattle University School of Law as one of the top 10 law schools nationally in its “Best Law Schools for Public Service” rankings.

The new Seattle University School of Law JD class boasts a median LSAT score of 159 and a median GPA of 3.59, the highest of any incoming cohort to date.

With Indigenous Peoples critically underrepresented in law, the renamed Northwest Center for Indigenous Law launches a new plan focused on greater access.

A record 92% of Seattle University School of Law’s Class of 2024 students found employment in the 10-month period after graduation, according to data recently released by the American Bar Association. It is the highest rate ever in the history of the law school.

Guest contributor/2L Sydney Smythe writes about why she and her peers started the First-Gen Coalition.

Distinguished Professor Angela Harris visited Vatican City last month to participate in the “Jubilee Convenings on Global Climate Reparations and the Catholic Church,” an effort to elevate the issues of climate migration and climate justice.

The Center for Civil Rights and Critical Justice at Seattle University School of Law filed amicus briefs supporting court challenges to the constitutionality of Trump Administration executive actions targeting birthright citizenship and several law firms.

The Legal Writing Institute (LWI) has renamed a prestigious teaching award for Professor Emerita Laurel Oates ’78 to honor her extraordinary contributions in elevating the status of legal writing as a discipline.

Mimi Samuel, a beloved faculty member who has been a fixture at Seattle University School of Law for a quarter of a century, is retiring at the end of June.

Janet K.G. Dickson ‘88, a dedicated faculty member who has skillfully taught the craft of legal writing to generations of Seattle University School of Law students, will retire at the end of the 2024-25 academic year in June.

Senate Bill 5104, which students in the Workers' Rights Clinic, under the leadership of Professor Elizabeth Ford, helped draft, passed the Washington State Senate.

Eight first-year students have been selected to participate in this year’s Calhoun Family Fellowship based on their passion for and dedication to racial justice advocacy and issues of equal justice.

Seattle University School of Law has been lauded in the winter issue of the National Jurist’s preLaw magazine for its strength in international law, employment law, and diversity.

Two Seattle U Law faculty members have been chosen by AccessLex Institute to write a series of modules based on evidence law to help prepare students across the nation for the NextGen Bar Exam.

This month, 35 students comprising the first-ever class of the Flex JD Program - which launched 3.5 years ago in fall of 2021 and features a hybrid-online structure - are expected to graduate with their law degrees.

Seattle University School of Law Professor Zaida Rivera is leading the effort to implement new pathways to bar licensure as chair of a newly-formed statewide steering committee.

The Center for Civil Rights and Critical Justice builds on the law school's commitment to social justice.

Entrusted with immense responsibility early in their careers, alumni who served as judicial clerks share the rewards and challenges of these coveted positions.