Gail Lasprogata, JD, LLM

Associate Professor
Genevieve Albers Professor 2007-2010

JD, Villanova University School of Law
LLM, International Law, New York University
BS, cum laude, Boston College

Phone: 206.296.6368

Office: Pigott 403

Email: lasprogg@seattleu.edu

Department: Marketing

Web Address: https://angel.seattleu.edu/

Teaching Areas: Business Law, International Law, Corporate Responsibility

In the News:

Gail Lasprogata, assistant professor of business and international law in Albers, received the prestigious Holmes-Cardozo Award for Research Excellence at the recent Academy of Legal Studies in Business Annual Meeting in San Francisco. The award is for the best paper at the conference. The paper is titled, "Workplace Privacy and Discrimination Issues Related to Genetic Data: A Comparative Law Study of the European Union and the United States," co-authored with Nancy King (Oregon State) and Sukanya Pillay (Univ. of Windsor). Subsequently, the paper was accepted for publication by the American Business Law Journal and should be forthcoming this fall. It concerns recently proposed U.S. legislation protecting employees from discrimination on the basis of their genetic profile and compares the European approach to genetic privacy and international human rights law protecting individual privacy.

Gail Lasprogata's article co-authored with Fred DeKay and Rex Toh, "Attrition Clauses: Outstanding Issues and Recommendation for Meeting Planners," published in the International Journal of Hospitality Management, 2005. 

Gail Lasprogata, assistant professor of business law, was awarded the William O. Douglas Best Paper Award for 2003 for the paper she presented at that same conference last year. That paper was co-authored with Nancy King at Oregon State and titled, "Current Issues in Workplace Privacy in the United States and the European Union: A comparative Law Analysis." it's published in the conference proceedings for 2003.

- Broadway Madison
May 11, 2004 

Terry Foster, assistant dean in the Albers School, and Gail Lasprogata, assistant professor of business law, presented a paper on April 24 to the Pacific Northwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business. The paper is titled, Assessment Can Be Fun! Using the ALSB National Assessment Instrument In A Technology Game To Motivate Student Learning. 

- Broadway Madison
May 3, 2004 

Gail Lasprogata's article, co-authored with Nancy King and Sukanya Pillay, "Regulation of Electronic Employee Monitoring: Identifying Fundamental Privacy Principles of Employee Privacy through a Comparative Study of Data Privacy Legislation in the European Union, United States and Canada," has been accepted for publication in the Stanford Technology Law Review.

Gail Lasprogata presented her paper To Monitor or Not to Monitor? Designing a Multi-Jurisdictional Paradigm for Corporations in the Wake of Emergent Workplace Privacy Protection in the United States, European Union and Canada, at the Academy of Legal Studies in Business Annual Conference in Nashville. Co-Authors were Nancy King of Oregon State and Sukanya Pillay of the University of Windsor School of Law.

Gail Lasprogata had two papers recently accepted for publication. Her jointly authored manuscript with attorney Marya Cotten, "Contemplating Enterprise: The Business and Legal Challenges of Social Entrepreneurship" has been accepted by the American Business Law Journal. Her co-authored paper, Whats in a Domain Name? Online Simulation Delivers Virtual Dispute Resolution Experience for Business Law Students, was accepted for publication in The Journal of Legal Studies Education.

Gail Lasprogata was the recipient of two distinguished awards at the Annual Business Law Conference of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business; in Law Vegas. The awards were for research and teaching. The research award is the Ralph C. Hoeber Award for Outstanding Article in the Journal of Legal Studies Education. Lasprogatas article is titled, Virtual Arbitration: Contract Law and Dispute Resolution Meet in Cyberspace. The teaching award is the Master Teacher Award, which she received for being a finalist in the Master Teacher Competition. This award is for a class exercise on domain name disputes and the ICANN online dispute resolution process. Over 25 submissions were considered. Lasprogata and co-author Nancy King were among four other finalists. 

The article from authors Gail Lasprogata and Diane Lockwood, "Digital Signatures: Rescuing Authentication Technology from a Premature Demise" was accepted for publication in the forthcoming issue of the Journal of Strategic E-Commerce.

Gail Lasprogata was the recipient of two awards at the Annual Business Law Conference of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, one for research and one for teaching. The research award is the Ralph C. Hoeber Award for Outstanding Article in the Journal of Legal Studies Education. The article is entitled, Virtual Arbitration: Contract Law and Dispute Resolution Meet in Cyberspace.

The teaching award is the Master Teacher Award, which was received for being a finalist in the Master Teacher Competition. The award is for a class exercise on domain name disputes and the ICANN online dispute resolution process. It is an intellectual property exercise that incorporates trademark law and online dispute resolution. The entire exercise is conducted online via WebCT. The competition for master teacher is a blind, peer-reviewed process. Over 25 submissions were considered. Gail and co-author Nancy King of Oregon State were among four other finalists. 

Gail Lasprogata  attended the annual conference of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, held in Albuquerque, New Mexico from August 7-11, 2001. Gail Lasprogata delivered the paper, Contemplating Enterprise: Sustaining Social Value in the New Millennium, exploring the ways nonprofit organizations can expand their cause-related impact while increasing their financial self-sufficiency.

Biographical Information:

Gail Lasprogata is an Associate Professor of Business and International Law. She teaches business and international law courses to business undergraduate and graduate students, and courses in corporate social responsibility to executive MBA students. Ms. Lasprogata's research focuses principally on international human rights, globalization with respect to development issues and corporate social responsibility. Her papers have been published in journals such as the American Business Law Journal and the Stanford Technology Law Review. Ms. Lasprogata's recent interest in the intersection of law, culture and science stems from past research in genetics and privacy law, as well as a passion for learning about indigenous traditions and spirituality. In the fall of 2006, Professor Lasprogata spearheaded a conference at Seattle University, Who "Owns" Nature? Biotechnology, Bioprospecting and Indigenous Peoples' Rights, which brought together international indigenous experts and members of the Pacific Northwest life sciences community to engage in constructive dialogue on how to promote biotechnology's positive impact while insuring that the treatment of indigenous peoples and their environments is ethical, responsible and respectful. Ms. Lasprogata is a graduate of Boston College (B.S., business), Villanova University School of Law (J.D.) and New York University School of Law (LL.M. in international legal studies).