Margaret Chon
Donald and Lynda Horowitz Professor for the Pursuit of Justice
Room 454, Seattle University School of Law
Phone: (206) 398-4042
E-mail: mchon@seattleu.edu
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Margaret Chon | |
Teaches Civil Procedure, Copyright Law, Intellectual Property, International Intellectual Property, Race and Law
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A.B. Cornell University College of Arts and Science 1979; M.H.S.A. University of Michigan School of Public Health 1981; J.D. cum laude University of Michigan Law School 1986.
Following law school, Professor Chon worked for a year as a staff attorney at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She then clerked for the Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. After her clerkship, she practiced intellectual property law with Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis in Philadelphia. Just prior to her teaching career, she served in an administrative clerkship with Chief Judge Dolores K. Sloviter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, where she assisted in the revision of the local Third Circuit rules.
Before joining the Seattle University law school faculty in 1996, she was a tenured member of the Syracuse University College of Law faculty. Since then, she has visited at a number of different law schools in the United States and abroad. From 2006-08, she directed the Center for the Study of Justice in Society at Seattle University. In January 2009, she will return to the University of Michigan, where she was a student, to teach as a visiting professor at the law school.
Professor Chon’s current scholarly interests include technology, law and critical theory. She is particularly interested in exploring the recent encounters between intellectual property and global development. She is also a prolific scholar in the race and law area, and is a co-author of Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment (Aspen 2001). A frequent speaker at national and local conferences, she emphasizes the social justice dimensions in each of her areas of inquiry.
Professor Chon has served on numerous national and local committees, including more than a half dozen committees of the Association of American Law Schools, as well as the Board of Governors of the Society of American Law Teachers, the Washington State Supreme Court Gender and Justice Commission, the Washington State Bar Association Access to Justice Technology Bill of Rights Committee and various regional people of color scholarship conferences. She has co-convened or co-organized over a dozen scholarly conferences. Her professional passion is developing peoples’ capacities for social justice change, whether through her teaching, scholarship or community work.