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Award-Winning ResearchIn a resounding affirmation of her scholarly impact, Jihyeon Bae was awarded the prestigious 2025 Stuart Scheingold Prize for Outstanding Paper in Public Law for her groundbreaking work, Invocation of Sovereignty Principle and Regime Types.
Prof. Anthony Gill in an interview by Econlib's EconTalk about property rights and what is acceptable and who says it is.(Interviewer) The question is: Who or what enforces property rights--in America, say? And, what's the simple answer?
Why is it okay to take the little shampoo bottles in hotels home with you but not the towels? And what stops people from taking the towels? Anthony Gill, professor of political science at the UW, is interviewed.Featured
on Econlib
A decade of cancel culture and the assassination of Charlie Kirk have reinvigorated the discussion about free speech - what exactly it is, and what it isn't. James Long, professor of political science at the UW, is interviewed.Featured
on PBS
Prof. James D. Long on KBTC's Northwest Now, along with Seattle U. Law school faculty member Prof.
Among a slew of noteworthy firsts, the 2025 election nationwide and in Seattle featured a turn to youth young voters backing youthful candidates. Mark Alan Smith, professor of political science at the UW, is quoted.Featured
on KUOW
This last Autumn quarter, the department of political science offered a joint graduate/ undergraduate seminar on the Political Theory of 20th-century Jewish-German thinker - Hannah Arendt.
