Margaret Chon

Biography

Since joining the Seattle University faculty in 1996, Margaret Chon has been a dedicated teacher as well as a prolific scholar in both intellectual property and critical race theory. She is currently the Associate Dean for Research and Centers, responsible for nurturing the law school faculty's academic excellence and showcasing its rapidly growing scholarly reputation. Her current scholarship is a genre she characterizes as global intellectual property equality. Along with several co-authors, she is working on a second edition of the textbook Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment, to address post 9-11 challenges.

Following graduation from law school in 1986, 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 embarking on 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. Throughout her legal career, she has been and continues to be active in many community and professional organizations.

Books

Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment (Aspen 2001) (with Eric Yamamoto, Jerry Kang, Carol Izumi and Frank Wu).

Book Chapters

Copyright and Capability for Education: An Approach from Below in Intellectual Property and Human Development: Current Trends and Future Scenarios (Public Interest Intellectual Property Advisors, eds., forthcoming 2010, Cambridge University Press).

A Rough Guide to Global Intellectual Property Pluralism in Working Within the Boundaries of Intellectual Property (Rochelle Dresyfuss, Harry First and Diane Zimmerman, eds., forthcoming 2010, Oxford University Press).

A Substantive Equality Principle Within Global Copyright, in Questions on Copyright (Faculdade de Direitos de Campos [Brazil], ed.) (2009).

Substantive Equality in International Intellectual Property Norm-Setting, in Intellectual Property, Trade and Development (Daniel Gervais, ed., 2007, Oxford University Press).

Resurrecting Korematsu: Post 9/11 National Security Restrictions on Civil Liberties (Eric Yamamoto ed., 2003) (with Eric Yamamoto), available at: www.law.ucla.edu/kang/racerightsreparation/
Update__Ch__8/chon_yamamoto_race_rights_ch8.pdf.

Erasing Race? A Critical Race Feminist View of Internet Identity-Shifting, in Cyberethics (Halbert and Inguili, eds. 2001); Critical Race Feminism: A Reader 2d ed. (Adrien Wing, ed. 2003).

New Wine Bursting From Old Bottles: Collaborative Internet Art, Joint Works, in A Copyright Anthology: The Technology Frontier (R. Chused, ed. 1998).

False Flattery Gets Us Nowhere, in The Bell Curve Debate: A Reader (1995).

Reasons for Reasoning About Sex, in The Eyes of Justice 17 (1993).

Articles

Global Intellectual Property Governance (Under Construction), in Theoretical Inquiries in Law (Michael Birnhack, ed., forthcoming 2010).

Marks of Rectitude, 77 Fordham L. Rev. 2311 (2009).

Slouching Towards Development in International Intellectual Property, 2007 Mich. St. L. Rev. 71, with Denis Borges Barbosa and Andrés Moncayo von Hase.

Intellectual Property From Below: Copyright and Capability for Education, 40 UC Davis Law Review (2007); excerpted in Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Analysis and Sources (Graeme Austin and Laurence Helfer, eds., Cambridge University Press 2010).

Intellectual Property and the Development Divide, 27 Cardozo Law Review 2821 (April 2006).

Walking While Muslim, 68 Law and Contemporary Problems 215 (Spring 2005), with Donna E. Arzt.

Reflections on Asian American Heritage Month (distributed by the Progressive Media Network and re-published under various titles, May 2002).

Transforming Talks: Public Dialogue About Social Justice in a Post-9-11 Age, 1 Seattle J. Soc. Just. 13 (2002).

A Symposium Tribute to Judge A. Leon Higginbotham Jr.: The Mentor and His Message, 33 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 973 (2000).

Erasing Race? A Critical Race Feminist View of Internet Identity-Shifting, 3 J. Gender Race & Just. 439 (2000), reprinted in Cyberethics (Halbert and Inguili, eds. 2001); Critical Race Feminism: A Reader 2d ed. (Adrien Wing, ed. 2003).

The Marketplace of Ideas in Cyberspace, 51 Mercer L. Rev. 859 (2000).

Introduction: Critical Race Praxis and Legal Scholarship, 5 Mich. J. Race & L. 35 (1999) (with Keith Aoki).

Radical Plural Democracy and the Internet, 33 Cal. W. L. Rev. 143 (1997).

Introduction: Internet Law Symposium, 20 Seattle U. L. Rev. 613 (1997).

Chon on Chang on Chen, 81 Iowa L. Rev. 1535 (1996).

New Wine Bursting from Old Bottles: Collaborative Internet Art, Joint Works, and Entrepreneurship, 75 Or. L. Rev. 257 (1996).

On the Need for Asian American Narratives in Law: Ethnic Specimens, Native Informants, Storytelling and Silences, 3 UCLA-Asian Pac. Am. L.J. 4 (1995).

Cyberspace and the Law, 5 Internet Res. 91 (1995). (resource review)

Combatting Anti-Asian/Pacific Islander Violence appendix to Crimes Motivated by Hatred: The Constitutionality and Impact of Hate Crime Legislation in the U.S., 1 Syracuse J. Legis. Pol'y 47 (1995).

Reasons for Reasoning About Sex, The Eyes of Justice (proceedings of the Seventh Round Table on Law and Semiotics, Center for Semiotic Research in Law, Government and Economics at Penn State, R. Kevelson, ed., 1993).

Postmodern "Progress": Reconsidering the Copyright and Patent Power, 43 DePaul L. Rev. 97 (1993).

Multidimensional Lawyering and Professional Responsibility, 43 Syracuse L. Rev. 1137 (1992).

Retention of Knowledge and Self-care Skills After an Intensive In-patient Diabetes Education Program, 2 Diabetes Res. and Clinical Prac. 51 (1986) (with Margaret Howard, Carol Barnett and Fredric M. Wolf).

Book Reviews and Review Essays

Disoriented: Asian Americans, Law and the Nation-State, 29 Amerasia J. 267 (2003).

Blade Runner Meets Superman: Replicants, Truth, Justice and the American Way, a review of J.M. Balkin, Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology, Jurist Books-on-Law, available at jurist.law.pitt.edu/lawbooks/revfeb99.htm#Chon (February 1999).

Acting Upon: Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics, 76 Or. L. Rev. 765 (1997) (book review).

Being Between: A Review of Chinese Women Traversing Diaspora: Memoirs, Essays, and Poetry, 17 Loy. L.A. Ent. L. Rev. 571 (1997).

Sex Stories: A Review of Sex and Reason, 62 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 162 (1993) (book review), reprinted in Employment Discrimination Law (Ravitch, McDonald and Sumners, eds.).

Digital Works

Learning Cyberlaw in Cyberspace, available at www.cyberspacelaw.org/chon (August 1999) (with Lydia Loren et al.).

Course materials for Internet Law (Spring 1999), available at www.law.seattleu.edu/fachome/chonm.