Seth Endo
skendo1.bsky.social
Seth Endo
@skendo1.bsky.social
professor at Seattle University School of Law (primarily civil procedure and professional responsibility)
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Such an exciting opportunity for early career work law scholars! 💪💣🎆
📢 CFP: Columbia–Cornell Jr Scholars Workshop on the Political Economy of Work 🗽 Dec 5–6, 2025 in NYC!

Open to early-career scholars in law, soc, econ, poli sci, history.

Submit 1p abstract by Sept 15
✅ Feedback + mentoring
✅ Travel/lodging support (if needed)

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May 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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I am so excited to say that my article “Alt Legal Services: Revisioning Lawyers' Role in the Fight for Worker Power” was just came out in BJELL! www.law.berkeley.edu/library/ir/b...
Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law
www.law.berkeley.edu
March 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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NEW: The interim U.S. attorney in Washington put his name to a motion dismissing Jan. 6 charges against a person he represented as a defense lawyer, likely violating a swath of conflict rules. "You can't do that," one ethics expert told us.

www.reuters.com/world/us/top...
February 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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In her article, Sarah Louise Bishop identifies an increase in dismissals of copyright infringement claims in federal court before discovery via application of the scènes à faire doctrine, and discusses the problems with the application of the doctrine. connecticutlawreview.law.uconn.edu?p=1249
February 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Delighted to host the American Bar Foundation Washington Fellows dinner yesterday evening at Seattle University School of Law, featuring the incomparable Hon. Margaret McKeown (9th Cir.) discussing her extraordinary book, Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas. 1/2
January 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Attn #adlaw nerds: Call for Papers for Tenth Annual Administrative Law New Scholarship Roundtable here @umichlaw.bsky.social 5/19-5/20: www.yalejreg.com/nc/call-for-...
Call for Papers: Tenth Annual Administrative Law New Scholarship Roundtable - Yale Journal on Regulation
The University of Michigan Law School is very pleased to host the Tenth Annual Administrative Law New Scholarship Roundtable on May 19-20, 2025. For the past nine years, the Roundtable has offered adm...
www.yalejreg.com
January 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Not to sound too wild-eyed, but perhaps the standard 1st year law school subjects should be reconsidered every 100 years or so. Our new paper explains why and how. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Langdell's Subjects
<p>When Christopher Columbus Langdell founded the law school curriculum that we teach, Jim Crow flourished. Women could not vote. The Supreme Court interpreted
papers.ssrn.com
January 18, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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The complaint "reads maybe 98.8% like a perfectly professionally prepared court filing. But like the 98.8% genetic similarity between chimps & humans, that 1.2% is pretty important & ... transforms the complaint from a harbinger of a robot lawyer future into a dumpster fire begging to be dismissed."
First Fully A.I. Drafted Complaint Filed In Federal Court And… It’s Hot Garbage!
Artificial intelligence is not replacing lawyers any time soon.
abovethelaw.com
January 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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For the legal academics out there: favorite law review article by a junior scholar?

Or just favorite law review article is fine too.
January 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Here is a direct link to my paper. Big thanks to the student editors for all their work and also to my wonderful co-authors!

lawreview.uchicago.edu/print-archiv...
Shedding Light on Secret Settlements: An Empirical Study of California's STAND Act | The University of Chicago Law Review
Catalyzed by the #MeToo movement, states have adopted a spate of laws restricting secret settlements. In 2018, California led the charge with the Stand Together Against Non-Disclosure (STAND) Act, whi...
lawreview.uchicago.edu
January 2, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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KPMG plans new US legal business under Arizona program reut.rs/421ocJc
January 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Though it's two years away, I'm already excited for the International Legal Ethics Conference (ILEC) 2026! It will be at Houston (thanks to the amazing Renee Knake Jefferson @legalethics.bsky.social). If you're interested in ethics, it's a can't miss event!

legalethics.substack.com/p/ilec-xi-20...
ILEC XI 2026 - Save-the-Date!
The next International Legal Ethics Conference will be held at the University of Houston December 2-4, 2026
legalethics.substack.com
December 3, 2024 at 3:58 PM
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Call for Papers - 14th Annual Junior Federal Courts Workshop - Cornell Law School, 4/25/2025. Junior scholars in fields of federal courts, civil procedure, civil rights litigation, constitutional law are encouraged to apply. Abstracts due 1/15/25.

community.lawschool.cornell.edu/junior-facul...
14th Annual Junior Faculty Federal Courts Workshop – Cornell Law School Community
The workshop will begin on the morning of Friday, April 25, 2025. Each panel will consist of three to four junior scholars, with a senior scholar commenting on the papers and leading a group discussion.
community.lawschool.cornell.edu
December 19, 2024 at 5:48 PM