SJEL has partnered with the Washington Lawyers for Sustainability (WLS) and Washington Journal for Environmental Law & Policy to host a sustainability symposium on April 20, 2012, at Seattle University. The event will focus on making sustainability legal, economically viable, and socially just. Presenters and speakers will include professors, practitioners, and elected officials.
Faculty Advisor
Professor Henry McGee
Professor Henry "Hank" McGee teaches and has expertise in the areas of land use regulation, environmental law, international environmental law, and housing and community development. Before joining the faculty at Seattle University School of Law in 1994, he served as a county prosecutor in Chicago, a litigator in a Chicago law firm, a civil rights attorney in Mississippi, and regional director of the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity Legal Services Program. He also participated in generating funding for government-aided legal assistance programs in the Midwest.
McGee is a professor emeritus from the University of California/Los Angeles, where he served as director of the UCLA Center for Afro-American Studies, and as director of the UCLA School of Law LL.M. program. He has visited and taught at other universities in Europe, Latin America and South Africa and is a Fellow of the Mexican Academy of Private International and Comparative Law.
Most recently, McGee was awarded the Clyde Ferguson award by the Association of American Law Schools. The honor, named for one of the first African-American tenured professors at Harvard Law School, recognizes a career of outstanding achievement.
Professor McGee is also a violinist with the Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra and is married to Professor Victoria Kill, PhD, who teaches English courses at Seattle University. Between them they have two daughters and five sons.