Dear Friends ~
Greetings from LSJ! There has been an exciting buzz in the air as students have returned to the classroom and we work to get our experiential learning opportunities fully operational once again. I have enjoyed working once again with our students, faculty, staff, and alums on a variety of initiatives since I returned to the role in June after a short medical leave.
Of course, these initiatives include our immersive, experiential learning opportunities. LSJ will be offering four… Read more
Written by: Kaitlyn Laibe
From occupying student government offices, to contributing to international human rights law development, to representing incarcerated folks, LSJ students at UW have a far-reaching impact. In talking with Zoe Fielden, a 2019 UW graduate, I learned that LSJ alums are no different.
When Zoe Fielden graduated, she had already worked with the Seattle Clemency Project (SCP), a local non-profit dedicated to providing relief for incarcerated individuals who are serving… Read more
Written by: Kaitlyn Laibe
Throughout her career, Professor Rawan Arar has tried to make sense of what she was constantly seeing in the news – the individualistic rhetoric around refugees, how states were framing the conversation, and exclusionary legal frameworks. The literatures on refugees, humanitarianism, and law were disjointed, but Arar could see how these issues overlapped in the real world. In this context, she, along with her colleague, David Scott FitzGerald at UCSD, began connecting… Read more
Written by: Kaitlyn Laibe
Many LSJ courses compare law on the books to law in action. While this approach is often taken from behind a podium (or screen), one group of students, accompanied by Professors Megan McCloskey and Stephen Meyers, had the unique opportunity to bring this approach to life during LSJ’s Geneva program this summer.
The initial plan for the trip was to explore the intersection of gender, disability, and age by engaging with various United Nations agencies and international… Read more