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The Preventative Care Gap: Completing The Aca’S Vision For Health, Abby Nagaich

Seattle University Law Review

This Note examines the preventive care mandate under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the legal, political, and practical challenges that threaten its effectiveness. While the ACA significantly expanded access to no-cost preventive services, gaps remain—particularly in behavioral health, obesity management, and equitable service delivery. Ongoing litigation, potential administrative rollbacks, and shifting political leadership further destabilize this critical component of public health policy.

This Note argues that for the ACA to fulfill its original promise—and for any health framework to succeed—preventive care must be redefined as a comprehensive, early intervention approach grounded in both systemic access and patient education. It …

May 16, 2026, Seattle University School Of Law

Commencement Programs

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A Concerted Effort: How The Roberts Court Demolished Anti-Gerrymandering Protections, Samuel Ogden

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

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The Link February 18, 2026, Access To Justice Institute

The Link Newsletter

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Good Newsletter February 3, 2026, Seattle University School Of Law Dean

GOOD NEWSletter

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December 13, 2025, Seattle University School Of Law

Commencement Programs

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The Link October 28, 2025, Access To Justice Institute

The Link Newsletter

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The Lawyer: Fall 2025, Seattle University School Of Law

Lawyer

The Briefcase

Faculty Showcase

A look at the Technology, Innovation Law, and Ethics (TILE) Institute

Out & About

The Legal Writing Program's past, present, and future

Alumni Profile: Stephanie Nichols

Alumni Profile: Kelly Vomacka

Class Notes

Good Newsletter September 2, 2025, Seattle University School Of Law Dean

GOOD NEWSletter

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The Link September 2, 2025, Access To Justice Institute

The Link Newsletter

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Demanding More From Distance Learning: The Virtual & Democratized Futures Of Legal Education, Antonio M. Coronado, Gabriela Elizondo-Craig

Seattle University Law Review Online

Antonio M. Coronado and Gabriela Elizondo-Craig examine the transformative potential of online legal education through their work at Innovation for Justice, where they lead virtual legal training programs for community-based justice workers. They trace the development and limitations of ABA Standard 306, highlighting how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed both the rigidity of traditional legal education and the possibilities of technology-enabled learning. Drawing on adult education theory and best practices in online pedagogy, Coronado and Elizondo-Craig challenge prevailing critiques of distance legal education and advocate for a learner-centered, accessible, and inclusive model. Their experience demonstrates how online legal education, when intentionally …

Towards A Critical Legal Tech Education: A Decolonial Approach, Diego H. Alcalá Laboy

Seattle University Law Review Online

The intersection of law, technology, and decolonial theory offers a critical framework for exposing and challenging power asymmetries embedded in both legal and technological systems. Drawing from his experience as a criminal defense attorney and legal academic, Diego H. Alcalá Laboy critiques how surveillance technologies, often framed as tools for justice, disproportionately harm marginalized communities. Grounded in Latin American decolonial theory, particularly the modernity/coloniality/decoloniality triad and the concept of pluriversality, he argues for reimagining legal scholarship and pedagogy to disrupt Eurocentric and universalist assumptions. Using a colonizer/colonized framework, he advocates for bottom-up knowledge creation that centers the voices of those …

Session 6: Ai Regulation: The Role Of Washington State Legal Organizations, Alicia Burton, Michele Carney, Ryan Harkins, Craig Shank, Drew Simshaw, Christon Skinner, Leslie Veloz

SITIE Symposiums

In session six of the SITIE 2025 Symposium, the panelists discuss how legal institutions in the State of Washington are responding to the challenges surrounding artificial intelligence (AI). Being aware that AI is continuing to evolve and will inevitably be integrated more into the legal field, this session discusses the benefits and concerns of AI and what legal institutions like the Board of Judicial Administration, Washington State Bar Association (WSBA) Committee on Professional Ethics, and the Washington State Bar Association Legal Technology Task Force are doing to educate lawyers and what changes, if any, are being done to address AI …

Ethical Lawyering In The Age Of Generative Ai, Mandi Chang

Seattle Journal of Technology, Environmental, & Innovation Law

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No Lawyer, No Jail: A Critical Case Study Of Pragmatism And The Flaws Of “Purposeful” Decision Making In Argersinger V. Hamlin, Alisa Smith, Sarah K. Stice

Seattle University Law Review

By releasing conference notes and internal communications, Supreme Court Justices provide insight into the otherwise private decisionmaking process, shedding light on how case outcomes and legal reasoning are framed and negotiated. The watershed case of Argersinger v. Hamlin (1972) extended the constitutional right to counsel to some, but not all, misdemeanor defendants. The case was argued twice, and the Court relied on empirical and authoritative sources to answer complex and practical questions about requiring counsel. This case study employs critical discourse analysis to uncover what influenced the Justices’ decisions and how they framed, shaped, and constructed social realities to foreground …

Modern Day Colonialism Through HawaiʻI’S Quiet Title And Partition Laws, Cheyann Fujii

Seattle University Law Review

This Note will attempt to highlight important aspects of Hawaiian history to provide readers with a clear picture on how Native Hawaiians are still impacted by colonialism, specifically when plaintiffs bring a quiet title or partition action against Native Hawaiian owners of kuleana lands. Before colonization, the concept of private land ownership did not exist in Hawai‘i, and Native Hawaiians adopted a feudal system by dividing land into geographical areas. Missionaries and businessmen brought Western ideas to Hawai‘i and influenced legislation such as the Great Māhele and the Kuleana Land Act of 1850, which solidified the concept of private property. …

Case Law On American Indians: September 2023 - August 2024, Thomas P. Schlosser

American Indian Law Journal

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The Link April 29, 2025, Access To Justice Institute

The Link Newsletter

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The Link April 15, 2025, Access To Justice Institute

The Link Newsletter

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The Link April 1, 2025, Access To Justice Institute

The Link Newsletter

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The Lawyer: Spring 2025, Seattle University School Of Law

Lawyer

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Good Newsletter March 28, 2025, Seattle University School Of Law Dean

GOOD NEWSletter

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The Link March 19, 2025, Access To Justice Institute

The Link Newsletter

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The Link March 4, 2025, Access To Justice Institute

The Link Newsletter

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The Link February 18, 2025, Access To Justice Institute

The Link Newsletter

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The Link February 4, 2025, Access To Justice Institute

The Link Newsletter

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The Link January 21, 2025, Access To Justice Institute

The Link Newsletter

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The Link January 7, 2025, Access To Justice Institute

The Link Newsletter

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Kansas, Elizabeth Ford

Thin Blue Advantage: Police Exceptionalism and the Two-Tier System of Public Sector Collective Bargaining

The Kansas system of public sector collective bargaining grants very limited rights to bargaining to both police and non-police units. In particular, the Kansas Public Employer Employee Relations Act (PEERA) sets the scope of bargaining very narrowly, and Kansas Public Employee Relations Board (PERB) construes its own authority to order bargaining even more narrowly. For those reasons, there are very few PERB decisions and even fewer that deal with the scope of bargaining. Of the bargaining decisions that exist, most are in the police or firefighter context, which may be an indication that the Board is more likely to order …

Corporate Governance Speech, Sarah C. Haan

Seattle University Law Review

The State has always regulated the intra-firm communications that make corporate governance possible, most commonly by mandating disclosures of information by a corporation to its shareholders. Some such laws are labeled “securities regulation,” but securities regulation is a broad category that extends to speech by actors who are outside the corporate enterprise as well. Also, the conventional securities regulation category does not capture all such laws; other examples, including informationforcing mandates, can be found in state corporate law. This Article uses the term “corporate governance speech” to describe the communications among shareholders, directors, and officers through which corporate governance is …