Influential Voices Lecture featuring William C. Oltman Professor of Teaching Excellence Andrew Siegel
Professor Andrew Siegel, the William C. Oltman Professor of Teaching Excellence, will deliver the Influential Voices Lecture in Sullivan Hall. A reception will follow. Lecture: Room C6, 4:30pm - 5:30pm Reception: 2nd Floor Gallery, 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Seattle University School of Law welcomes the university community, alumni, and friends to an Influential Voices Lecture featuring Andrew Siegel, commemorating his tenure as the William C. Oltman Professor of Teaching Excellence. Professor Siegel's lecture is titled, "Teaching as Service, Service as Teaching," and will reflect on the ways in which educators teach during their interactions with students outside the classroom and about how those interactions, in turn, influence and improve our classroom teaching. The spoken program will also include welcoming remarks from the Dean and an introduction of Professor Siegel by Aaron Dickinson, a former student. The lecture will be followed by a reception. RSVP here.
About Andrew Siegel
Professor Andrew Siegel is the William C. Oltman Professor of Teaching Excellence and a professor of law at Seattle University School of Law. He is an innovative teacher of a wide variety of courses involving constitutional law, torts, American legal history, civil procedure, and the United States Supreme Court. His scholarship focuses on constitutional theory, contemporary constitutional and public law, and American legal history. Professor Siegel is a nationally recognized expert on the United States Supreme Court, who frequently lectures on that subject in a variety of academic and professional settings. He is a co-author of "The Supreme Court Sourcebook" and his scholarship has appeared in a variety of influential journals including the Texas, Fordham, and UC-Davis Law Reviews, the Harvard Civil Right-Civil Liberties Law Review, and the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. He is also a frequent commentator on the Supreme Court and constitutional law for local and national television, radio, and newspapers.
Professor Siegel joined the law school in 2007 after five years teaching at the University of South Carolina School of Law. Before entering the legal academy, Professor Siegel served as a law clerk to Judge Pierre N. Leval of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and to Justice John Paul Stevens of the United States Supreme Court, and practiced as a litigation associate in the New York office of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. Professor Siegel graduated summa cum laude from Yale College, has a master's degree in history from Princeton University, and graduated summa cum laude and first in his class from New York University School of Law, where he was also an executive editor of the New York University Law Review.
Professor Siegel has held a variety of leadership positions in his time at Seattle University. From January 2020 to June 2023, he was the law school's academic dean, serving as associate dean for Academic Affairs (2020-2022) and then vice dean for Academic Affairs (2022-2023). From 2014 to 2017, he served as Associate Dean for Planning and Strategic Initiatives, where he led efforts to develop and launch a variety of creative degrees, programs, and courses. He currently directs the law school's new "Project on the Supreme Court and Our Constitutional Future."