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