Alumni
- An Eventful Career Think your job is complicated? Try this one: Six months after your first day at work, the gubernatorial election you oversee becomes one of the closest in U.S. history.
- A Perfect Fit If anyone seems born to enter the Foreign Service, it’s Natella Svistunova BA’96, JD’00
- Inner-City Coach Seeks Moral Victories “Boys, you can only stand in the key for three seconds.” “What’s the key?” “Boys, you can’t get five fouls in a game.” “What’s a foul?”
Students
- A Student of the World “Before she even arrived at Willamette, Erin Tofte, a member of the Class of 2011, had a deeper understanding of developing nations than many students. As a Peace Corps volunteer, she helped build wells and latrines for a village in Nicaragua.”
- Public Interest Powerhouse As a kid growing up near a primarily African-American section of Atlanta, Aaron Jeffers experienced prejudice from an unexpected source — law enforcement.
- Family Focused “T here’s something voyeuristic about family law,” said Katie L. Archer, a member of the Class of 2011. “As a lawyer, you’re entrusted with people’s personal information. If they trust you with that, then you need to use it to your advantage — to help them as best you can.”
Faculty
- Teaching Others “ We idealize the law, give it a high sense of purpose,” said Shelaswau Bushnell Crier, who joined the Willamette law faculty as an assistant professor in the fall of 2009. “We have to; we must strive for that ideal of equality and justice.
- Bringing Business Sense to the Law Bringing Business Sense to the Law
- Empowering Others Through the International Human Rights Clinic Empowering Others Through the International Human Rights Clinic