Austen L. Parrish
Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Summer Law Program in Vancouver
B.A., Political Science/Economics, 1994, University of Washington; J.D., 1997, Columbia University; Member, California State Bar
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Phone: (213) 738-5728
Room: BW423
Appointed in 2008 as the school's Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, Dean Parrish brings an international perspective to the classroom. He teaches and writes in the area of transnational litigation, international law and relations, and conflicts of law. He is also an expert on Canada-U.S. transboundary relations, has served as an expert witness in a number of Canadian cases, and since 2003 has directed the school's Vancouver Summer Law Program. His recent writings have focused on critiquing the use of extraterritorial domestic laws and the role that national courts play in solving global challenges.
Dean Parrish has been recognized for his teaching and involvement with students. In 2007, he was named as Southwestern's Irwin R. Buchalter Professor of Law and received the First Year Professor Excellence in Teaching Award. He is actively involved with all three of the school's advocacy honors programs and the school's Law Review and Law Journal. He has also taught at Loyola Law School. Dean Parrish strives to provide his students with "an understanding of how the U.S. legal system relates to the rest of the world - critical knowledge for lawyers of today."
Dean Parrish also brings significant practical legal experience to the classroom. Prior to joining Southwestern, he was an attorney with O'Melveny and Myers LLP, where he represented various companies, individuals and government entities in complex business litigation. He practiced in both federal and state trial and appellate courts. Active in pro bono activities, he has worked with a number of local public interest organizations, such as the Anti-defamation League, the Constitutional Rights Foundation, and Public Counsel Law Center.
Dean Parrish was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar at Columbia Law School. During law school he served as Managing Editor of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law and as a student-editor of the Columbia Journal of European Law.
Publications
Books and Chapters
HARD-NOSED ADVICE FROM A CRANKY LAW PROFESSOR: HOW TO SUCCEED IN LAW SCHOOL (with Cristina Knolton; Carolina Academic Press, 2010)
EFFECTIVE LAWYERING: A CHECKLIST APPROACH TO LEGAL WRITING AND ORAL ARGUMENT (with Dennis Yokoyama; Carolina Academic Press, 2007)
"Sovereignty's Continuing Importance? Traces of Trail Smelter in the International Law Governing Hazardous Waste Transport" in TRANSBOUNDARY HARMS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW: LESSONS FROM THE TRAIL SMELTER ARBITRATION (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006)
Articles
"Duplicative Foreign Litigation," 78 GEORGE WASHINGTON LAW REVIEW 237 (2010)
"Reclaiming International Law from Extraterritoriality," 93 MINNESOTA LAW REVIEW 815 (2009)
"The Effects Test: Extraterritoriality's Fifth Business," 61 VANDERBILT LAW REVIEW 1455 (2008)
"Comity and Foreign Parallel Proceedings: A Reply to Black and Swan," 45 CANADIAN BUSINESS LAW JOURNAL 209 (2009)
"Changing Territoriality, Fading Sovereignty, and the Development of Indigenous Group Rights," 31 AMERICAN INDIAN LAW REVIEW 291 (2007)
"Challenging the Assumption of Equality: The Due Process Rights of Foreign Litigants in U.S. Courts, ILA Weekend-West Conference Proceedings (transcribed remarks)," 5 SANTA CLARA JOURNAL OF INT’L LAW 410 (2007)
"Litigating Canada-U.S. Transboundary Harm: International Environmental Lawmaking and the Threat of Extraterritorial Reciprocity," 48 VIRGINIA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 1 (2007) (with Prof. S. Hsu)
"Mixed Blessings: The Great Lakes Compact and Agreement, the IJC, and International Dispute Resolution," 2007 MICHIGAN STATE LAW REVIEW 1299 (2007)
"Storm in a Teacup: The U.S. Supreme Court's Use of Foreign Law," 2007 ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW 637 (2007)
"Embracing Reciprocity: Revisiting Domestic Solutions to Ontario's Transboundary Pollution Problems," in 35 CANADIAN COUNCIL INTERNATIONAL LAW 73-79 (2006)
"Sovereignty, Not Due Process: Personal Jurisdiction Over Nonresident, Alien Defendants," 41 WAKE FOREST LAW REVIEW 1 (2006)
"Trail Smelter Déjà Vu: Extraterritoriality, International Environmental Law and the Search for Solutions to Canadian-U.S. Transboundary Water Pollution Disputes," 85 BOSTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 363 (2005)
"Avoiding the Mistakes of Terrell R.: The Undoing of the California Tort Claims Act and the Move to Absolute Governmental Immunity in Foster Care Placement and Supervision," 15 STANFORD LAW & POLICY REVIEW 267 (2004)
Other
"Move Over, New Haven and Boston – Innovation Begins Here," LOS ANGELES DAILY JOURNAL (Aug. 7, 2008)"Sovereignty, Not Due Process: Personal Jurisdiction Over Nonresident, Alien Defendants," abridged and reprinted in CYBER JURISDICTION: SOVEREIGN AND PERSONAL DIMENSION (C. Vidya ed., ICFAI Univ. Press, 2008)
"Trail Smelter Déjà vu: Extraterritoriality, International Environmental Law and the Search for Solutions to Canadian-U.S. Transboundary Water Pollution Disputes," abridged and reprinted in WATER POLLUTION: POLICIES AND PERSPECTIVES (K. Kumari, ed., ICFAI Univ. Press, 2007)
"Challenging the Assumption of Equality: The Due Process Rights of Foreign Litigants in U.S. Courts," ILA Weekend-West Conference Proceedings (transcribed remarks), 5 SANTA CLARA JOURNAL OF INT'L LAW 410 (2007)
