Lectures and Events

Department Chair Katherine Beckett
Letter From the Chair, Katherine Beckett
(March 13, 2024)
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LSJ department screens ‘Life After Life’
(December 1, 2017)
Colleen Melody
LSJ Alum Helps Contest Trump Actions
(November 29, 2017)
LSJ Major Clara Manahan addresses the UW Foundation Board
LSJ "tells the story of hope"
(May 1, 2017)
Alums speak at Career Night Panel
LSJ Hosts Annual Career Night Panel and Mixer 
(February 10, 2017)
LSJ alumni and current students mingling at the program launch
LSJ Launches Second Annual Mentorship Program
(January 23, 2017)
LSJ Alumni return to campus to serve on LSJs annual Gap Year Panel
4 Benefits of Taking Gap Years: Key takeaways from LSJ’s annual gap year panel
(December 9, 2016)
Happy 15th Anniversary to the Law, Societies, and Justice Program
LSJ Alumni Celebrate 15 Years of Community, Education, and Excellence  
(October 31, 2016)
LSJ 15th Anniversary Celebration Information
LSJ 15th Anniversary Celebration
(August 25, 2016)
Barry Massey, the youngest person to be sentenced to life without parole, speaking to LSJ students at UW on April 18th, 2016.
Barry Massey, youngest person sentenced to life, talks with LSJ students
(April 25, 2016)
LSJ Director Steve Herbert engages in discussion with a panel of attorneys, public defenders, and documentary filmmakers about the Netflix series "Making a Murderer". The group had a conversation about the criminal process in the United States.
Interdisciplinary panel deconstructs “Making a Murderer”
(February 26, 2016)
LSJ alums from 2006 and 2013 mingle over happy hour drinks and silly photo ops.
LSJ Alumni Happy Hour a Success!
(November 18, 2015)
Access to Information as a Human Right Conference Poster
‘Access to Information as a Human Right’ public conference Oct. 5
(September 21, 2015)
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LSJ sponsored event discusses WTO protests 
(December 11, 2014)
Panel educates LSJ majors on post grad pathways
(November 1, 2014)
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LSJ co-sponsoring Social Justice Film Festival
(October 16, 2014)
Honoring the Memory of Timothy Richard Wettack
Endowed Fund Honors the Memory of Timothy Richard Wettack
(September 10, 2014)
Honors Presentation
LSJ Honors Class Tackles Immigration in Washington
(June 3, 2014)
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Information Sessions on 2014-15 Mixed Enrollment Opportunities
(May 10, 2014)
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“Crack in Los Angeles: Historical Reflections on the War on Drugs in Late Twentieth Century L.A.”
(May 2, 2014)
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LSJ Career Night Event
(May 2, 2014)
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“Life Sentences: Women Prisoners Reflect on Reading”
(April 30, 2014)
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Brown Bag Lunch with Professor Beckett
(February 2, 2014)
“Drones, Targeted Killings, and the Law”
(February 1, 2014)
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Martin Luther King Day of Service
(January 15, 2014)
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Information Sessions for “Amsterdam and Seattle: Urban Social Control in Comparative Perspective”
(January 14, 2014)
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“Exploring the Intersections of International Human Rights and Disability”
(December 3, 2013)
A Cheerful Evening at the Annual Alumni Reception
(November 21, 2013)
Litigation Opens the Dialogue for Social Change
(November 18, 2013)
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Two Events for LSJ Majors
(November 15, 2013)
Optimism About the Future of the Law Profession
(October 21, 2013)
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“Unmanned: America’s Drone Wars”
(October 15, 2013)
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“The Future of the Law Profession”
(October 11, 2013)
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“Challenging Prolonged Solitary Confinement in American Prisons”
(October 11, 2013)
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LSJ Alumni Reception and Silent Auction, Friday, November 8th
(October 11, 2013)
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“Undocumented and Unafraid”
(October 4, 2013)
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2013 LSJ Convocation Ceremony
(May 7, 2013)
LSJ panelists speak about working in the legal field – but not as lawyers
(April 23, 2013)
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Spring Quarter LSJ Day of Service
(April 10, 2013)
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LSJ Major Lunch
(March 13, 2013)
LSJ Day of Service: Coming together to assist
(February 19, 2013)
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Panel Discussion with LSJ Alumni
(February 19, 2013)
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LSJ Day of Service
(January 8, 2013)
LSJ Alumni Reunion and Silent Auction a Success
(November 6, 2012)
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Meet Lemon Anderson, three-time felon turned Tony award winning playwright and poet
(October 31, 2012)
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Prof. Lovell’s Book Launch on Nov. 8
(October 27, 2012)
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Alumni Homecoming Reunion and Silent Auction
(September 17, 2012)
Panel addresses regulation of medical marijuana in Washington State
(May 23, 2012)
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2011 Washington Law Review Banquet on May 3
(April 13, 2012)
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Society and Justice reunion
(April 4, 2012)