Biography
Kip Hustace teaches and writes in torts, civil procedure, civil rights, legal theory, Indigenous peoples law, and the law of democracy. His scholarship focuses on neorepublican legal theory, a philosophy of liberation through law and democratic accountability over public and private power. To that end, Kip has documented the intellectual history of legal republicanism, and he has theorized freedom as nondomination in education rights and in Indigenous peoples law. He has also written on the proliferation of causes of action and its effects on legal system complexity. His current projects address neorepublican tort theory, nondomination in the law of democracy, Indigenous legal futurisms, and kanaka ‘ōiwi (Native Hawaiian) legal history. Kip’s scholarship is interdisciplinary, integrating law, literature, history, philosophy, Indigenous studies, (dis)ability studies, and other humanities.
Prior to joining the faculty at Seattle University School of Law, Kip was a visiting assistant professor at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, teaching education law and professional responsibility. Before entering academia, he worked as a staff attorney at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund in Los Angeles, where he litigated education and voting rights cases. Kip earned his BA and JD from Stanford University and an LLM from the University of Washington School of Law.
