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
Austen Parrish joined the Southwestern faculty in 2002. His teaching and research interests are broadly in the area of transnational law, with an emphasis on Canada-U.S. relations. His recent writings have focused on the role of national courts in solving global challenges. In 2007, he was named as Southwestern's Irwin R. Buchalter Professor of Law, and received the First Year Professor Excellence in Teaching Award. During the 2006-07 year, he also taught at Loyola Law School. In 2008, he was appointed as Vice Dean for Academic Affairs.
Prior to entering academia, Professor Parrish was as an associate at O'Melveny & Myers LLP, where he represented various companies, individuals and government entities in complex business litigation. He has practiced in both federal and state trial and appellate courts. Active in pro bono activities, Dean Parrish served as the O'Melveny & Myers supervising attorney for the Anti-Defamation League's Summer Research Program, as a mentor in the firm's mentor program, and as a guardian ad litem for Public Counsel. From 1997 – 2007, he volunteered as attorney/coach for the John Marshall High School team participating in the Constitutional Rights Foundation James A. Cobey Mock Trial Competition, and in 2002 was named "Mock Trial Coach of the Year."
Dean Parrish was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar in law school and served as managing editor of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law and as a student-editor of the Columbia Journal of European Law.
Dean Parrish finds teaching to be very satisfying and says, "There are few things more rewarding than the immediate feedback you receive from students who suddenly 'get it.'"
Publications
Books and Chapters
EFFECTIVE LAWYERING: A CHECKLIST APPROACH TO LEGAL WRITING AND ORAL ADVOCACY (with D. 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 University Press, 2006)
Articles
"Reclaiming International Law from Extraterritoriality," 93 MINNESOTA LAW REVIEW 815 (2009)
"Comity and Parallel Foreign Proceedings: A Reply to Black and Swan," CANADIAN BUSINESS LAW JOURNAL (REVUE CANADIENNE DE DROIT DE COMMERCE), University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
"The Effects Test: Extraterritoriality's Fifth Business," 61 VANDERBILT LAW REVIEW 1455 (2008)
"Litigating Canada-U.S. Transboundary Harm: International Environmental Lawmaking and the Threat of Extraterritorial Reciprocity," 48 VIRGINIA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (with S. Hsu, 2007)
"Changing Territoriality, Fading Sovereignty, and the Development of Indigenous Group Rights," 31 AMERICAN INDIAN LAW REVIEW (Summer 2007)
"Mixed Blessings: The Great Lakes Compact and Agreement, the IJC, and International Dispute Resolution," 2007 MICHIGAN STATE LAW REVIEW (Spring 2007)
"Storm in a Teacup: The U.S. Supreme Court's Use of Foreign Law," 2007 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW (2007)
"Sovereignty, Not Due Process: Personal Jurisdiction Over Nonresident, Alien Defendants," 41 WAKE FOREST LAW REVIEW 1 (Spring 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 268 (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)
