
Seattle U Law dean recognized nationally as top legal education leader
Seattle U Law Dean Anthony E. Varona has been recognized by The National Jurist as one of the top 25 legal education leaders.

Seattle U Law Dean Anthony E. Varona has been recognized by The National Jurist as one of the top 25 legal education leaders.

Seattle University School of Law hosted its Third Annual Supreme Court Rapid Response webinar with celebrated experts in law.

Distinguished Professor Angela Harris recently visited Vatican City to participate in the a global gathering on climate justice.
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Seattle U Law has hired nine outstanding new faculty members, one of the largest cohorts in recent memory.
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.
April 17, 2025
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.
April 11, 2025
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.
March 31, 2025
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.
March 28, 2025
The law school remembers Professor Emeritus David Boerner, a celebrated faculty member who faithfully served the law school and the legal profession with distinction during his long career.
March 26, 2025 | Announcements
Seattle University School of Law recently concluded one of its most successful showings ever at the Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, held in San Francisco in early January.
February 4, 2025 | Events
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.
December 16, 2024
Nazune Menka, an assistant professor of law at Seattle University School of Law, announced that she is among 205 leaders selected to join the Obama Foundation Leaders program.
September 26, 2024 | Announcements
Seattle U Law’s International Human Rights Clinic faculty and students seek to raise awareness of shocking conditions in Guerrero
September 19, 2024
In recognition of his distinguished career as a dedicated and exemplary educator, Professor John Kirkwood has been named the 2024-2026 William C. Oltman Professor of Teaching Excellence at Seattle University School of Law.
August 29, 2024 | Announcements
A recently published academic paper has named Seattle University School of Law as the top-ranked Pacific Northwest law school for faculty impact, and places it in the top third of all law schools nationally.
August 27, 2024 | Announcements
Professor Michael Blasie is the new dean of the Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic Research (KIMEP) University School of Law in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
August 21, 2024 | Announcements
Faculty from Seattle University School of Law’s top-ranked Legal Writing Program attended the 2024 Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute (LWI), held in July at Indiana University’s Robert H. McKinney School of Law.
August 13, 2024
Brooke Coleman, vice dean for Academic Affairs and the Fredric C. Tausend Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law, has been elected to the prestigious American Law Institute.
July 30, 2024 | Announcements
Seattle University School of Law hosted two prominent American Bar Association workshops this past week that drew a sold-out attendance of approximately 130 law school deans from around the nation.
July 24, 2024 | Events
Seattle University School of Law’s Center for Civil Rights and Critical Justice will expand the school’s commitment to empowering faculty and students to deploy critical research, education, and advocacy to reveal and remove systems of racism, oppression, and exclusion within the law.
July 18, 2024
Just 24 hours after the U.S. Supreme Court released its monumental decision on presidential immunity in Trump v. United States, Seattle University School of Law hosted its Second Annual Supreme Court Rapid Response Webinar with nationally-renowned experts in constitutional, criminal, and election law.
July 8, 2024 | Events
Seattle University School of Law Professor Sara Rankin has attained the rare honor of having her scholarship quoted by a U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) justice in a dissenting opinion of a recently decided landmark case on homelessness.
July 8, 2024
Three faculty members who have collectively spent decades at Seattle University School of Law have stepped down at the end of the 2023-24 academic year.
June 20, 2024
Beginning this summer, Angela P. Harris, a nationally acclaimed legal scholar and thought leader, will become a distinguished professor at Seattle University School of Law.
May 3, 2024 | Announcements
Seattle University School of Law celebrated the installation of Professor Russell Powell as the first Father John Topel Endowed Scholar in Catholic Social Thought and Justice.
April 18, 2024 | Announcements
Seattle University School of Law has announced that Devon Carbado, the Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law, will deliver the inaugural Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic Distinguished Lecture on April 12, 2024, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. in Sullivan Hall.
March 21, 2024 | Events
Seattle University School of Law leaders and alumni played key roles in developing and advocating for reforms to the state’s licensure process for new attorneys that culminated in sweeping changes ordered by the Washington Supreme Court
March 15, 2024
Internationally renowned academics, scholars, legal practitioners, and other distinguished experts will convene at Seattle University School of Law this Friday and Saturday to attend the 16th Berle Symposium.
March 6, 2024 | Events
Seattle University School of Law Professor Robert Chang was presented with the Mentor of the Year Award by the Korean American Bar Association (KABA) of Washington during its 33rd Annual Banquet at Benaroya Hall this month.
February 29, 2024
Seattle U Law partners with UW Tacoma to launch innovative “South Sound Hybrid Hub”
February 26, 2024
Seattle University School of Law has selected Professor Nazune Menka to become the next faculty director of the the Northwest Center for Indigenous Law. Menka, who will also serve as a tenure-track assistant professor of law, is Seattle U Law’s first Alaska Native faculty member.
February 8, 2024 | Announcements
International and employment law programs, along with facilities, rated highly by preLaw Magazine
February 8, 2024
Seattle University School of Law has tapped Kathryn Naegeli Boling to lead the law school’s esteemed Legal Writing Program.
January 10, 2024 | Announcements
Seattle University School of Law faculty and staff will be playing a major role at the Association of American Law Schools’ Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
January 2, 2024 | Events