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Eric Schnapper

Professor of Law,
University of Washington School of Law
P.O. Box 353020
Seattle, WA

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Professor of Law,
University of Washington School of Law
P.O. Box 353020
Seattle, WA 98195

Bio

Professor Eric Schnapper, who joined the University of Washington Law School faculty in 1995, teaches Civil Rights, Civil Procedure, and Employment Discrimination. He served for twenty-five years as an assistant counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., specializing in appellate litigation and legislative activities. In 2010-11 Professor Schnapper argued three U.S. Supreme Court cases: Staub v. Proctor Hospital, Thompson v. North American Stainless, and Borough of Duryea, Pennsylvania v. Guarnieri. In addition, he has handled more than eighty Supreme Court cases, including Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway v. White (2006) and Ash v. Tyson Foods, Inc. (2006), Kolstad v. ADA (1999), Bogan v. Scott-Harris (1998), Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Oil (1998), Faragher v. Boca Raton (1998), and Burlington Industries v. Ellerth (1998). In 2023, Professor Schnapper argued between the U.S. Supreme Court twice – in Gonzalez v. Google, about the scope of section 230 which limits liability of social media companies and in Twitter v. Taamneh, about the liability of corporations for assisting terrorist organizations. Professor Schnapper’s articles on constitutional law and civil rights have appeared in law reviews published by Harvard, Columbia, Virginia, Stanford, and other law schools. He was the recipient of a Marshall Scholarship for study at Oxford University in 1963–65, served as articles editor of the Yale Law Journal, and clerked for the California Supreme Court.