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Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, describes the legal processes in place for resolving elections.

Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, compares the 2020 election to the 2000 election and whether the 2020 election could be decided in the Supreme Court.

The most existential questions facing us at the end of this election season cannot be answered by lawyers. Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the UW, is quoted.

The Biden team is preparing for the worst. Here are three possible scenarios.

The directive could make it easier to fire some agency researchers and hire others for political reasons.

UW Professor of Law, Steve Calandrillo describes the downsides of switching clocks and how it affects mental health.

“The uprising this summer in defense of Black lives forced a reckoning across the country with racist police violence. Since then, a new consensus has begun to form in Seattle: Past reform efforts have failed to keep Black communities safe from violent policing, while the city has never adequately funded housing, child care, health care or other basic building blocks of safety for Black Seattleites. We must stop pouring hundreds of millions into police budgets and instead begin to divest from policing,” writes Angélica Cházaro, assistant professor of law at the UW.

This year, Washington voters have a say in who they’d like to see on the state Supreme Court. The two justices most recently appointed by Gov. Jay Inslee drew challengers in this election. Two incumbents are running unopposed. Hugh Spitzer, professor of law at the UW, is interviewed.

Judicial races determine who rules in the court of law, but get little exposure .

The Supreme Court of Washington State struck down Tim Eyman’s $30 car tab measure last week, a decision that University of Washington law professor Hugh Spitzer explained to KIRO Radio’s Gee and Ursula Show.

Jeff Feldman, a law professor at the University of Washington, said the case is relatively unprecedented in the history of antitrust law, given the size and nature of the company.

Hugh Spitzer, professor of law at the UW, explains why the Supreme Court of Washington struck down $30 tabs and reversed a 1960 ruling that allowed cemeteries to discriminate against a Black family. [This interview on “The Gee and Ursula Show” begins at 19:57.]

Vista Equity Partners founder will pay $139m but avoid indictment for years of tax evasion.

The Washington state Supreme Court overruled a Supreme Court decision from 1960 that had allowed cemeteries to discriminate on the basis of race. Theodore Myhre, assistant teaching professor of law at the UW, is quoted.

Twitter will pay $100,000 for failing to retain required records about political ads from Washington candidates that ran over a seven-year period before the social media platform banned all political advertising. UW law student Tallman Trask is quoted.

In the coming weeks, leaves will fall, plants will shrivel, temperatures will sink and Americans will experience growing dread over the unpleasant experience that awaits us in November. No, not the presidential election — the end of daylight saving time.

In the coming weeks, leaves will fall, plants will shrivel, temperatures will sink and Americans will experience growing dread over the unpleasant experience that awaits us in November. No, not the presidential election — the end of daylight saving time.

“I’m a freshman at the University of Washington, and should be filled with hope and joy to be at this stage in my life. Unfortunately, and not because of COVID-19, I am coping with overcoming emotional and social trauma resulting from sexual abuse I was victim of when I was a freshman in high school,” writes UW student Kaitlyn Chin.

Clark Lombardi, professor of law at the UW, gives listeners a primer on the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, which outlines the line of succession for the presidency. [Segment begins at 19:27.]

What many people feel about the upcoming U.S. presidential election can be described in one word: Fear.

Some worry there won’t be a peaceful transition of power following the vote next month. Others wonder whether democracy and women’s rights in the United States will radically change with a new Supreme Court. There is also anxiety over U.S. foreign policy, and the tone of the recent presidential debate only added to global uncertainty.

Host Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson is joined by John Emerson, former U.S. Ambassador to Germany; Kathryn Watts, Pendleton Miller Chair in Law at the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ in Seattle; Peter Beyer, Germany’s Transatlantic Coordinator; and Ralph Freund, Vice President of U.S. Republicans Abroad in Germany.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Loren Culp has claimed on multiple occasions that Gov. Jay Inslee’s face mask mandate goes against the state’s constitution. Hugh Spitzer, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.

It could be the wackiest product yet from Amazon — a tiny indoor drone that buzzes around people’s homes as a security sentry. The introduction of the Ring Always Home Cam planned for 2021 has opened up fresh debate on the potential for intrusive surveillance and privacy infringement. Ryan Calo, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.

Mike Angiulo worked at Microsoft for 25 years as an engineering manager and vice president. But it was actually not the work Angiulo originally envisioned doing. He had planned to be a lawyer, delaying those plans after he started at Microsoft in his early 20s. Now, at age 47, nearly three decades later, he’s circling back to his original plan as a student in the UW School of Law.

Amazon drones will probably be zipping around outside your house to drop off packages before too long. But before that day arrives, the drones could also be flying inside your home. Ring, the Amazon-owned smart doorbell and security company, unveiled a flying indoor camera on Thursday morning. Ryan Calo, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.

The images were striking: dozens of former law clerks of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, dressed in black, silently awaiting their former boss on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court this morning. Elizabeth Porter, associate professor of law at the UW, was among them. She clerked for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2002.