Clark Lombardi, director of Islamic Legal Studies at the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ, points out that Arabic words are formed out of roots composed of three letters and that “to understand the nuances tucked into the meaning of a word, you need to look not only at the way that one word was used in the Quran, but also at the way in which all its related words are used,” he wrote in an email. The word “jihad” originates from the root j-h-d, with words like “ijtihad” and “mujahid” sharing the same origins.
The growing number of migrants looking for asylum in Tukwila has prompted the city to declare a state of emergency. While local and state governments work to address the influx of asylum-seekers, the people here are no stranger to waiting it out — but they’re excited to move on to the next stage of their lives. Georgina Olazcon Mozo, director of the Immigration Law Clinic at the UW, is quoted.
“What we see is the emergence of two competing designs for getting to the moon and staying there,” said Saadia Pekkanen, founding director of the Space Law, Data and Policy Program at the University of Washington.
Wildermuth, who also helps recommend changes to the state’s endangered species program, said the Endangered Species Act is a commitment, requiring humans to value life outside themselves. “It’s an expensive task,” he said about wildlife conservation.
Local authors in WA state are unhappy because their works are being used to program artificial intelligence without their permission. Alex Alben, affiliate instructor of law at the UW, is interviewed.
“Many judges would not be happy that a deposition was taken at which both sides were not present,” said Jeff Feldman, a ºìÌÒÊÓƵ professor who teaches civil procedure. “It appears that this all could have been avoided.”
Companies like Meta and Bloomberg draw upon a database of 191,000 books to train the tools. Local writers aren’t happy, and lawsuits are in the works. Alex Alben, affiliate instructor of law at the UW, is quoted.
“We saw a record number of food litigation lawsuits filed from 2020 to 2023, with hundreds of new suits every year,”ºìÌÒÊÓƵ affiliate instructor Tommy Tobin, a lawyer at Perkins Coie and a lecturer at UCLA School of Law, recently told CNN. “Food litigation is a fast-growing area of law,” he added.
Members of law enforcement, community organizers and more weigh in on the trial of three Tacoma officers charged in the 2020 death of Ellis. David B. Owens, assistant professor of law at the UW, is interviewed.
Republican presidential hopefuls have largely shunned TikTok, the hugely popular video-sharing app that some in both parties allege is a potential spy mechanism for China. Ryan Calo, professor of law and in the Information School at the UW, is quoted.
In a historic policy shift, long-ousted tribes are collaborating, cooperating and co-managing parks. Monte Mills, professor of law and director of the Native American Law Center at the UW, is quoted.
“We saw a record number of food litigation lawsuits filed from 2020 to 2023, with hundreds of new suits every year,” said ºìÌÒÊÓƵ affilaite instructor Tommy Tobin, a lawyer at Perkins Coie and Lecturer at UCLA Law, adding that “food litigation is a fast-growing area of law.”
It’s a legal gray area, according to Bill Bailey, an associate law professor at the University of Washington who has been both a prosecutor and defense counsel in trials spanning four decades.
Opinion: The highest court in the land is also the only one with no binding ethical rules, and public trust in the court’s legitimacy is fading.
Monte Mills, director of the Native American Law Center at the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ and a former professor at the University of Montana law school, said that if tribes are lending through online services, courts have generally found that they are not subject to states’ usury laws and are able to utilize the lending companies to bring in more revenue and employment for tribal members.
Monte Mills, director of the Native American Law Center at the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ who formerly taught at the University of Montana’s law school, said lawsuits playing out in court may have serious implications for tribal sovereignty. And he said the tribal lending landscape is “tricky.”
Doug Ross, an antitrust expert with the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ, said the Federal Trade Commission will take a close look at the potential impacts of the divestiture in every region, including Alaska.
When two giant companies merge, federal antitrust laws could kick in, prompting the companies to sell off some stores in order to please the Federal Trade Commission. That's currently the plan for Kroger and Albertsons. On Friday, the two companies announced an agreement to sell 413 stores to C&S Wholesale Grocers, including 104 in Washington state. The companies added that no stores will close as a result of the merger. Douglas Ross, professor of law at the UW, is interviewed.
Because ethics is both subjective and not legally binding, they can readily be trumped by capitalist imperatives, said Ryan Calo, a professor at the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ and a former member of the ethics board at Axon.
Bob Gomulkiewicz, a University of Washington law professor who teaches a class on the First Amendment, doesn’t see the Kennedy ruling as quite that significant. He said the ruling is consistent with decades of Supreme Court precedent saying teachers and students don’t “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate,” as a seminal 1969 case put it.
Zahr Said, who teaches tort law at the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ, agreed Hawaiian Electric could be seeking to shift not just blame in a general sense but legal liability.
Opponents of the capital gains tax in Washington state are not giving up. Conservative think tank Freedom Foundation asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to hear an appeal in another bid to overturn the state’s new capital gains tax law. Hugh Spitzer, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
“Law enforcement officers have discretion in the sense that they hold the video (and) they control whether or not there is an ongoing investigation,” said Mary Fan, a law professor at the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ and an expert on police body camera policies across the country.
ChatGPT and other next-generation strains of artificial intelligence have revolutionized the tech world over the past year, and policymakers are ramping up their efforts to respond. Ryan Calo, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
“RICO laws punish more severely the participation in a criminal enterprise to commit a series of crimes, recognizing the greater harms posed by a group of people acting with the purpose of committing multiple crimes,” Mary Fan, a law professor at the University of Washington, explained in an email.
