Professor
Margaret Chon

Seattle University
School of Law

mchon@seattleu.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Faculty Profile

Skype username: maggiechon

Talks

• Moderator, Panel Discussion: Race, Justice & the Military.  Tribute to the Veterans of the 1944 Fort Lawton Court-Martial (July, 2008)
• Moderator, Session on Exceptions for Preservation and Education Exceptions for Government, for the Cardozo Law School Conference on Developing International Norms for Limitations to Copyright (March, 2008).
• Moderator, Religion, Pluralism and the Law conference (March 2008)
• Conference Organizer, Globalization & Justice:  Interdisciplinary Dialogues (co-sponsored by the Seattle University Center for the Study of Justice in Society and the Center for Global Justice) (February 2008)
• Moderator, Brown Undone? The Future of Integration in Seattle After PICS v. Seattle School District No. 1 (February 2008)
• Moderator, Africans and the Catholic Church Conference, Seattle University (February 2008)
• Keynote Speaker, The Future of Copyright, University of South Carolina School of Law (October 2007)
• Fair Trade, Brand-based Regulation and New Global Governance, panel on Governance by Marking and Branding, Law & Society Annual Meeting (Berlin, July 2007)
• Intellectual Property’s Quest for Progress, panel on WIPO’s Development Agenda: What Future? ABIFINA II SIPID – Seminário Internacional Patentes, Inovação e Desenvolvimento (Second International Seminar on Intellectual Property and Development) (Rio de Janeiro, July 2007)
• Innovation and Access Within a Human Development Framework, panel on Working Within the Boundaries of Intellectual Property, New York University School of Law Conference of the Engelberg Center on Law and Innovation Policy (June 2007)
• Intellectual Property From Below, Thomas Jefferson School of Law Faculty Workshop (April 2007)
• The Social Movement of A2K, Second Annual Access to Knowledge Conference, Yale University Law School Information Society (April 2007)
• Moderator, Can Our Culture Be Saved?  The Future of Digital Archiving, Seattle University School of Law (April 2007) (co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Justice in Society and the Northwest Chapter of the Copyright Society)
• The Trade Constitution and Patent Law’s Quest for Progress, panel on International Intellectual Property Law Panel, DePaul Center for Intellectual Property Law and Information Technology Seventh Annual Symposium (March 2007)
• Intellectual Property from Below, The Chicago Intellectual Property Colloquium (February 2007)
• Development and Innovation, The University of Michigan Law School Intellectual Property Workshop (February 2007)
• A Substantive Equality Principle in International Intellectual Property, panel on Development, Innovation and International Legal Regimes: The Politics of Knowledge and Knowledge Goods, International Law Association, American Branch (October 2006)
• Moderator, Race and Criminal Law, LatCrit XI (October 2006)
• Moderator, Gender, Class and Race: Alternatives to the Dominant Economic Paradigm, Conference on Law & Economics: Towards Social Justice (September 2006)
• Keynote Speaker, International Association of Korean Lawyers Meeting (August 2006)
• Towards a Development-Oriented International Intellectual Property Balance,  panel for Berkeley Intellectual Property Scholars Conference (August 2006)
• Panelist, The Politics of Global Intellectual Property, AALS Workshop on Intellectual Property, AALS Mid-Year Meeting (June 2006)
• Panelist, Global Citizenship and Social Justice, The International Intellectual Property Regime Complex, Michigan State University College of Law (April 2006)
• Moderator, Patents and Competition: Are We Moving in the Right Direction?, At the Intersection of Antitrust and Intellectual Property Law: Looking Both Ways to Avoid a Collision, Seattle University School of Law (April 2006)
• A Million Little Pieces: Historical Memory and Reparations, panel on Taking Reparations Seriously, Thomas Jefferson Law School (March 2006)
• Panelist, Distributive Justice and Intellectual Property, Symposium on Intellectual Property and Social Justice, University of California Davis School of Law (March 2006)
• Development Rhetoric and Development Potential in FTAs, panel on  IP and FTAs: Strategies, Countermeasures and Alternatives for Sustainable Development, Intellectual Property, Free Trade Agreements and Sustainable Development, American University Washington College of Law (February 2006)
• Co-Faculty Facilitator, The Digital Body, Seattle University Salons (January 2006)
• Intellectual Property and the Development Divide, Second Pacific Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, Seattle University and the University of Washington Schools of Law (October 2005)
• Panelist, University Intellectual Property and Global Access to Health Care, University of Washington (October 2005)
• Panelist, Ethical Issues in Reparations to Aggrieved Groups: What Lessons Can We Learn From the Holocaust?, Oregon Law Institute of the Lewis & Clark Law School (April 2005)
• Panelist, Fair Use: Is it or Isn’t It?, Copyright Society of the U.S.A. Northwest Chapter event, Seattle University (March 2005)
• Panelist, Opening Plenary, (RE) Examining Race and Gender Conference, Seattle University Center for the Study of Justice in Society (March 2005)   
• Panelist, Intellectual Property Rights: Are They A Barrier to New Medical Technologies?, Global Health & Justice: Paradigms for Multidisciplinary Collaboration, University of Washington School of Law (February 2005)
• Speaker, Faculty Brownbag, University of California Davis School of Law (February 2005)     
• Panelist, Judgments Judged and Wrongs Remembered:  Examining the Japanese American Civil Liberties Cases of World War II on their Sixtieth Anniversary, joint conference of the University of North Carolina School of Law, UCLA Asian American Studies Center and Japanese American National Museum (November 2004)
• Panelist, Copyright Law, Second National People of Color Conference, The George Washington University Law School, October 2004
• Panelist, Fair Use, Washington State Lawyers for the Arts Brownbag, June 2004
• Roundtable Planner and Moderator, What Do Rights Have to Do With It?  Intellectual Property and Globalization, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting (May 2004)
• Speaker, The Legacy of Korematsu and Japanese American Redress, University of Chicago Law School (May 2004)
• Planner and Moderator, The Color of Justice, Washington State Supreme Court Gender and Justice Commission in partnership with Chief Leschi School (April 2004)
• Planner and Moderator, Works-in-Progress Roundtable, Debating Globalization: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, Seattle University Center for the Study of Justice in Society (April 2004)
• Panelist, Intellectual Property and Beyond, Symposium on Malthus, Mendel, and Monsanto: Intellectual Property and the Law and Politics of Global Food Supply, University of Oregon Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics (April 2004)
• Moderator, Brown as a Catalyst To Movements For Racial Justice and Equality, From Brown to Grutter: Racial Integration and the Law in the Northwest: A symposium to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, Seattle University School of Law (April 2004)
• Reporter, Workshop on Global Access to Essential Learning Tools, Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (April 2004)
• Participant, IP/Gender: The Unmapped Connections, Program on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest at American University, Washington College of Law (April 2004)
• Panelist, Fair Use and Access Rights, Symposium on Intellectual Property, Sustainable Development and Endangered Species: Understanding the Dynamics of the Information Ecosystem, Michigan State University-Detroit College of Law (March 2004)
• Panelist, Beyond or Behind Borders?  Prescription Drug Access and Arbitrage in a Global Economy, Seattle University School of Law Center for Corporations, Law and Society conference on Corporate Health Care and Governance in the Health Care Marketplace: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (February 2004)
• Panelist, The Legacy of Korematsu and Japanese American Redress, Third Annual Mid-Atlantic Asian Pacific American Law Students Conference, Pushing the Envelope: The Next Challenge for Asian American Lawyers, University of Pennsylvania Law School (January 2004)
• Participant, Dreamkeeping: Empowering Minority Faculty—A Dialogue, Law School Admission Council, Seattle, WA (October 2003)
• Speaker, What Do Intellectual Property Rights Have to Do With Human Rights?  Some Observations on the Brink of a Sabbatical, Pacific Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, Salishan, OR (October 2003)
• Roundtable Participant, Militarisms and Other Isms: A Critical Discussion of Current Affairs, Eighth Annual Lat-Crit Conference, Cleveland, OH (May 2003)
• Co-presenter with Eric Yamamoto, Resurrecting Korematsu: Post 9/11 National Security Restrictions on Civil Liberties, Work-in-Progress, Second Joint Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty/Western Law Teachers of Color, Seattle, WA (March 2003)
• Moderator, Race, Space, and Place: Living in America, Seattle University Philosophy Department (November 2002)
• Moderator,  Assimilation & Resistance in Personal, Professional, and Pedagogical Practices: A Roundtable Discussion, Assimilation and Resistance, Emerging Issues in Law and Sexuality, Seattle University School of Law (September 2002)
• Panelist, Reparations, Professional Development, Northeast People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference (June 2002)
• Moderator, Cultural Property I, Cultural Property II, Law and Society Annual Meeting (May 2002)
• Panelist, The Role of Politics and Ideology in Legal Scholarship, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting (January 2002)
• Panelist, The Digital Divide, Privacy and Other “Revenge Effects,” University of Washington Center for Law, Commerce and Technology Conference on Beyond the Information Superhighway: Searching for the Next Policy Metaphor (April 2001)
• Moderator, Mother-Daughter Panel, Asian Pacific American Women’s Leadership Institute Summit (April 2001)
• Panelist, Gender, Race and the Opportunity Gap: How Technology Choices Can Help or Harm, Pigott-McCone Endowed Chair Event (February 2001)
• Panelist, Incorporating Equal Justice Teaching Throughout the Curriculum, Association of American Law Schools Equal Justice Colloquium (January 2001)
• Panelist, Paracopyright and the Digital Divide: Anti-Circumvention Provisions and Control Over Digital Information, University of Dayton School of Law Program in Law and Technology, Scholarly Symposium on Copyright’s Balance in an Internet World (November 2000)
• Discussion leader, Celebration 2000 Judicial Education Plenary, When Bias Compounds: Insuring Justice for Women of Color in the Courts, Washington State Bar Association (September 2000)
• Moderator, Book Authors’ Panel, Joint Asian Pacific American Law Faculty/Western Law Teachers of Color Conference (May 2000)
• Panelist, Celebrating Women from Diverse Communities, Seattle University William Allen Endowed Chair Event (April 2000)
• Panelist, The Marketplace of Ideas in Cyberspace, Oliver Wendell Homes Symposium and Lectureship, Mercer Law School (March 2000)
• Panelist, Intersectionality, National Women Law Students Association Meeting (March 2000)
High Tech Law, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (November 1999)
• Panelist, Access to Justice Forum, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (November 1999)  
• Panelist, The Future of Legal Practice, Seattle University School of Law Dedication Week Series (October 1999)
• Panelist, Internet Identity Shifting: Consequences for Critical Theories, for panel on Identity Politics and the Internet: Is the Internet Race and Gender Blind?, Fourth Annual Ethics and Technology Conference, Boston College (June 1999)
• Panelist, Dangerous Liaisons on the Internet: The Impact of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, Fourth Annual Entertainment Law Conference (May 1999)
• Moderator, Taxation and Regulation of E-Commerce, Seattle University Intellectual Property Law Society Second Annual Conference (April 1999)
• Moderator, Infusion of Learning from Other Disciplines to Intellectual Property Law, Association of American Law Schools Workshop on Intellectual Property (March 1999)
• Panelist, Internet Identity Shifting: Consequences for Critical Theories, Iowa Journal of Gender, Race and Justice Symposium on Critical Race Feminism: Preparing Legal Thought for the 21^st Century (November 1998)
• Panelist, The Japanese American Internment and Redress: A Legal Inquiry -- Cases, Materials and Study Modules, for panel on Coram Nobis, Legal Education and Community, Civil Liberties Public Education Fund Grant Program National Conference (June 1998)
• Moderator, Bridging Theory and Activism, Fifth Annual Western Law Teachers of Color Conference (March 1998)
• Instructor, Seattle University CLE, Every Lawyer an Internet Lawyer (1998)
• Panelist, Legal Scholarship and Legal Activism, for panel on The Role of Law Schools in Empowering the Asian Pacific American Community, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Annual Meeting, Denver (November 1997)
• Discussant for Lawrence Lessig, The Constitution in Cyberspace, Earl Warren College Program in Law and Society, University of San Diego School of Law (October 1997)
• Panelist, Intellectual Property II, International Association of Korean Lawyers (July 1997)
• Panelist, Intellectual Property Issues in an Electronic Age, NASA Workshop on Desktop Computing and Earth Sciences (July 1997)
• Moderator, Legal Issues in Cyberspace, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, DIAC-97 (March 1997)
• Panelist, Radical Plural Democracy and the Internet, California Western School of Law (February 1997)
• Moderator for plenary session on Teaching Outside of the Classroom, AALS
• Mini-Workshop on Teaching with Technology (January 1997)
• Moderator, Immigrants: Separate and Unequal, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Annual Meeting (November 1996)
• Roundtable Participant, Contesting the Asian American Legal Subject, American Studies Association (November 1996)

• Panelist, Intellectual Value and Intellectual Property, for panel on Law and Information Policy, Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (October 1996)

• Panelist, Hiring and Retention, Third Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty (September 1996)
• Panelist, “The Past Year’s Developments in Copyright” for panel on Intellectual Property Adventures on the Internet, Internet Law Symposium 1996 (September 1996)
• Web Site as Pedagogical Potluck: The development of a class web page, Presentation for the Fourth Annual Conference on Substantive Technology in Law School and Law Practice (July 1996)
• Speaker, Race, Representation and Affirmative Action, Union College Department of Philosophy  (May 1996)
• Guest Lecturer, Copyright and Federal Information Policy, Syracuse University School of Information Science and Technology (March 1996)
• Panelist, The Collaborative Internet Artist: Exploring Identity through Copyright, for panel on Who Owns the Mona Lisa?, Intellectual Property Committee, College Art Association Annual Meeting (February 1996)
• Panelist, The Virtual Legal Subject: Author of Internet Art, for panel on Cultures of Commerce and Communication on the 'Net, University of Oregon Symposium on Information Policy, Value Creation and Entrepreneurship (November 1995)
• Panelist, The Road to Academia and Back, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Annual Meeting (November 1995)
• Speaker, On the Need for Asian American Narratives in Law, Asian American History Month, Williams College (April 1995)
• Guest Lecturer, On the Need for Asian American Narratives in Law, Human Diversity graduate seminar, Syracuse University School of Social Work (April 1995)
• Guest Lecturer, Rhetoric and Community on the Internet, Syracuse University Writing Program (January 1995)
• Panelist, “We the People of Color,” for panel on Conflict and Cooperation Between and Within Communities of Color, Mid-Atlantic Law Professors of Color Conference (February 1995)
• Panelist, “Low Tech High Tech: Some Theoretical and Critical Insights, and Other Unwanted Advice about Teaching with Technology,” for panel on Teaching with Technology, AALS Mini-Workshop on Technology (January 1995)
• Panelist, “Privacy on the Information Superhighway,” for panel on Information Superhighway: Destination?, AALS Mass Communications Law Section (January 1995)
• Panelist, “On the Need for Asian American Storytelling,” for panel on The Relationship Between Law, Asian Pacific American Identity and the Dominant Culture, First Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty (October 1994)
• Panelist, “Simulacra and Autonomous/Anonymous Third World Women,” for panel on Gender, Neocolonialism and the Pacific Experience, Law and Society Association (June 1994)
• Faculty Member, seminar on Government Information: Privacy and Access in an Electronic Environment, Syracuse University School of Information Studies SIRM Program, Washington D.C. (April 1994)
• Guest Lecturer, Digital Photography, Syracuse University School of Visual and Performing Arts (March 1994)
• Guest Lecturer, Computer Graphics, Syracuse University School of Visual and Performing Arts (February 1994)
• Panel Discussant, “Reasons for Reasoning About Sex,” for panel on Sex, Signs, Reason (discussion of Richard Posner's Sex and Reason), Seventh Annual Round Table on Law and Semiotics (May 1993)
• Panel Discussant, “Disembodied Marks: Luke Sky/Skyywalker,” Sixth Annual Round Table on Law and Semiotics (May 1992)
• Guest Lecturer, Asian American Women and the Law, Asian Americans, Civil Rights and the Law, Cornell Law School (September 1991)
• Faculty Member, Recent Developments in Federal Civil Practice, seminar for the Oneida County Bar Association (September 1991)
• Speaker, Attorney Referrals and Fees, proceedings of Korean Law Day  (September 1990)