Spring/Summer 2006 Issue: Volume 4, Issue 2
Authors
Brook Assefa
Brook Assefa is a J.D. candidate at Seattle University School of Law (2006) and an associate editor of the Seattle University Law Review. Brook holds a B.A. in Applied Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley (1987) and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington (1996).
Shannon Calderone
Shannon Calderone is a doctoral student in Higher Education and Organizational Change at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education & Information Studies (GSEIS). Her current research interests focuses on the political economy of higher education and financial aid.
Mark A. Chinen
Mark A. Chinen is an Associate Professor at the Seattle University School of Law, where he teaches contracts, international law, and international trade. He received a B.A. in Asian Studies from Pomona College in 1981 and an M.Div. from Yale Divinity School in 1984. He worked for a year as a pastoral intern in Hawaii, where he was raised, and then entered law school, receiving his J.D. from Harvard in 1988. He practiced law for seven years in Washington, D.C. with the law firm of Covington and Burling. While there, he became a member of the Church of the Savior, a faith community committed to personal formation and active engagement in justice issues. He began law teaching in 1996. In addition to his interests in law and theology, he writes in the areas of law and foreign policy, international law, and comparative law. His most recent article, also being published this year, examines proposed amendments to the Constitution of Japan.
Mary E. Fairhurst
Justice Mary E. Fairhurst was elected to the Washington Supreme Court in 2002. She began her legal career in the Supreme Court as a judicial clerk, working first with Chief Justice William H. Williams in 1984 and then with Justice William C. Goodloe until 1986. Justice Fairhurst spent sixteen years serving the citizens of Washington State in the Washington Attorney General’s Office. She worked with Attorneys General Christine Gregoire and Ken Eikenberry. She worked in various divisions and when elected Justice, was serving as the Division Chief of the Revenue, Bankruptcy, and Collections Division. In 1998, Attorney General Gregoire gave her Steward of Justice Award to Justice Fairhurst.
Justice Fairhurst has served as President of the Washington State Bar Association, on the Bar Board of Governors representing the Third Congressional District, and as President of Washington Women Lawyers. Throughout her career she has worked to enhance the opportunities for women and minorities in the legal profession and to ensure access to justice for low-income individuals and families. Justice Fairhurst is currently the chair of the Board of Judicial Administration’s Public Trust and Confidence Committee. Justice Fairhurst also serves on the Court’s Rules Committee and Personnel Committee.
In 1984, Justice Fairhurst earned her law degree magna cum laude from Gonzaga University School of Law. She earned her undergraduate degree in political science cum laude in 1979, also from Gonzaga University. In 1999 she received the Myra Bradwell award from Gonzaga and currently serves as the President of the Gonzaga Law School Board of Advisors, and is a member of Gonzaga University’s Board of Regents.
Renee Giovarelli
Renee Giovarelli is a legal and policy consultant with International Partners in Development. Her work focuses on legal and policy issues concerning land tenure and land access, farm reorganization, rural development, and land conflicts, and she specializes in intra-household and gender issues related to land tenure and customary and legal property rights. She works for the World Bank, USAID, and various United Nations Organizations. Most of her work has been in Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan), the Former Soviet Union, and Africa. Ms. Giovarelli has published a number of articles and book chapters related to land reform and women’s access and rights to land.
Randolph I. Gordon
Randolph I. Gordon has served as an Adjunct Professor at Seattle University School of Law since 1999, teaching Products Liability and Remedies, and was honored three times with the invitation to serve as commencement speaker and with the 2003 Outstanding Faculty Award. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with High Honors and High Distinction from the University of Michigan in 1975, and earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1978, where he founded the still-operating freshman orientation program, was elected to the Board of Student Advisors, and served on the Civil Rights–Civil Liberties Law Review. He has been practicing law in Washington State since 1978, serving on the governing boards of both the Washington State Trial Lawyers Association (WSTLA) (2001-2003) and Washington State Bar Association (WSBA) (2003-2005). In 1998, Randy Gordon was awarded WSTLA’s Public Justice Award for his work on Birklid v. Boeing, a 1995 en banc (9-0) decision of the state supreme court changing Washington State law regarding employer liability for “deliberate” injury. In 2001, he was honored with the President’s Award from the WSBA and the Professionalism Award from WSTLA. He currently serves as General Counsel for the USA-National Karate-do Federation, the United States Olympic Committee-recognized national governing body for the sport, and is a member of the Bellevue, Washington law firm of Gordon Edmunds Elder PLLC with an active mediation, arbitration, and trial practice.
Richard Goldberg
Richard Goldberg received his B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2002 and his Master’s Degree from Columbia University in 2004. He is currently a doctoral student in the Political Science department at UCLA where he specializes in American Politics. His interests include public opinion, voting behavior, voter turnout, gay and lesbian politics, and statistical methods. He also serves as a Programmer/Data Analyst at UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute.
Tim Hanstad
Tim Hanstad teaches at the University of Washington School of Law, where he co-directs a graduate program in the Law of Sustainable International Development. He holds a J.D. (1998) and an LL.M (1994) from the University of Washington School of Law, and a B.A. from Seattle Pacific University (1985) in Political Science and History. Mr. Hanstad is the president and CEO of the Rural Development Institute, and he has nearly twenty years of experience in research, consulting, and writing devoted to exapnding land access, improving land tenure security, and developing land markets for the benefit of the rural poor in developing and transitional economies. His field experience includes fourteen countires in Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Latin America.
Julie A. Helling
Julie A. Helling graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1993. She clerked for the Minnesota Court of Appeals before becoming a domestic violence prosecutor. She has served as the director of the Law and Diversity Program at Fairhaven College, Western Washington University since 2000.
Therese Huston
Therese Huston, Ph.D, is the Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Psychology at Seattle University. As the Director, she consults with faculty about their teaching and leads workshops on a variety of topics, including conversations about diversity and bias as they relate to instruction and assessment. One focus of her published work is faculty satisfaction and factors that improve or deteriorate faculty morale, and her newest line of research examines the impact of physical appearance (i.e. age, dress, race, etc.) in the classroom. She regularly presents at national and international conferences on higher education, and she has advised organizations that are launching new teaching centers. She is the 2006 Program Co-Chair for the Professional and Organizational Development Network’s Annual Meeting, North America’s premier conference on teaching centers and faculty development. Her formal education includes a B.A. in Psychology from Carleton College, an M.S. and Ph.D in Cognitive Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University, and a post-doctoral fellowship in Cognitive Neuroscience with the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at University of Pittsburgh.
Jennifer A. Lindholm
Jennifer A. Lindholm is Associate Director for the Office of Undergraduate Evaluation and Research at UCLA. She is also co-lead investigator and co-director of the “Spirituality in Higher Education” program at UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute.
Paula Lustbader
Professor Paula Lustbader has been on the faculty of Seattle University School of Law since 1988. She co-developed and directs the school’s academic support program. She is a nationally recognized scholar and speaker on law school academic support programs, learning theory, teaching methods, and diversity. In addition to being the past chair of both the Teaching Methods and Academic Support Sections of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), she has been a frequent program organizer and presenter at conferences sponsored by the AALS, the Law School Admission Council Institutes for Academic Support, the Institute for Law School Teaching, the Society of American Law Teachers, the Legal Writing Institute, the Teaching Professor, and the Academy for Creative Teaching. She has also made presentations on teaching in England, Switzerland, and Spain. Her work on faculty development focuses on teaching and thus is useful beyond the law school arena. Professor Lustbader has taught at the AALS New Faculty Institute for the since 1999; has served on the planning committee and as a facilitator for the New Faculty Institute at Seattle University since 2001; has served on the committee to establish a Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Seattle University; and has served as a faculty consultant to that center.
Serin Ngai
Serin Ngai is a 2006 J.D. candidate at Seattle University School of Law where she currently serves as Managing Editor of the Seattle Journal for Social Justice. During law school, Ms. Ngai placed as a quarterfinalist in the 2005 James E. Bond appellate moot court competition and represented Seattle University School of Law at the 2006 Texas Young Lawyers Association mock trial competition in Spokane, Washington. Ms. Ngai is also a playwright of seven produced plays and co-established SIS Productions, an Asian American theater production company in Seattle that strives to involve Asian American women in the production of artistic endeavors. She was also the original creator and playwright of the theatrical show, Sex in Seattle.
Laurel Currie Oates
Laurel Currie Oates has been the director of the Legal Writing Program at Seattle University School of Law since 1984. She is a graduate of University of Puget Sound School of Law and has done graduate work in educational psychology at the University of Washington.
Roy L. Prosterman
Roy Prosterman is a graduate of the University of Chicago (B.S., 1954) and Harvard Law School (J.D., 1958). Forty years ago, he left a rising career with one of the nation’s top law firms, Sullivan & Cromwell, for a teaching post at the University of Washington School of Law. Led by a passion for addressing global povery, he has devoted his career to applying the law to build a better world. Professor Prosterman is the Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Rural Development Institute (RDI), and Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Washginton. He is a pioneering world expert on land reform, rural development, and foreign aid. He has provided advice and conducted research in more than thirty countries in Asia, the former Soviet Union, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America. Professor Prosterman has received many awards and distinctions, including having been twice a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, receipt of the 2003 Gleitsman International Activist Award, and recognition as an Outstanding Global Social Entrepreneur by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. Most recently, he was honored with the inaugral Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership, and was noted as “Champion for the World’s Poor.”
Mimi Samuel
Mimi Samuel received her A.B. from Georgetown University in 1984 and her J.D., cum laude, from Georgetown University School of Law in 1990. Before joining the faculty at Seattle University School of Law in 1999, Professor Samuel practiced law in Washington, DC with Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, and in San Francisco, with Thelen Marrin Johnson & Bridges.
Professors Samuel and Oates traveled to Uganda in December 2003 to conduct a training session for attorneys from the Inspector General’s office. They returned to Uganda in June 2005 to work with High Court judges and to conduct a seminar for students at the Law Development Centre.