Melinda J. Branscomb
Associate Professor of Law
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Biography
Professor Branscomb is an active mediator, mentor-mediator, and special education mediator in Washington schools. After her clerkship, she served as an assistant attorney general for Tennessee, and practiced labor and employment law for six years at the United Paperworkers Union's International Headquarters. She joined the faculty in 1989.
Articles
Tribute to James E. Beaver, 19 Seattle U. L. Rev. xviii (1996).
Labor, Loyalty, and the Corporate Campaign, 73 B.U. L. Rev. 291 (1993).
Liability and Damages in Libel and Slander Law, 47 Tenn. L. Rev. 814 (1980).
Contact
Room 453
Seattle University School of Law
Phone: (206) 398.4038
E-mail: mbransco@seattleu.edu
Education
- B.A., cum laude, Vanderbilt University, 1972; Phi Kappa Phi
- J.D., first in class, University of Tennessee School of Law, 1980; Chancellor's Citation for Extraordinary Academic Achievement; Order of the Coif; Tennessee Law Review assistant editor; Moot Court Board; National Moot Court Team (first place, Southeastern Region)
- Clerk to Chief Justice Brock of the Tennessee Supreme Court
Courses
- Dispute Resolution
- Negotiation and Mediation
- Collaborative Law
- Employment Discrimination
- Employment Law
- Labor Law
- Torts