THE BRIEFCASE
FOUNDING PROFESSOR JOHN WEAVER RETIRES 10
LAWYER MAGAZINE Fall 2018
In the early 1970s, John Weaver was a lawyer at a midsized firm in Indianapolis. He had never worked as a teacher. He had never been west of the Rocky Mountains. But a hankering for adventure led him across the country to a brand new law school in Tacoma, Washington. The rest, as they say, is history. Actually, the rest was property. Weaver taught property law at Seattle University School of Law since its first day of operation in 1972, when it was affiliated with
the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma. Weaver, the last of the law school’s founding faculty members, retired just four years shy of its 50th anniversary. “It was very exciting, very daunting, and very busy,” Weaver said, remembering the early days of the law school. “But we all found that teaching was what we really liked to do. And our students were about the same age as we were, so there was a sense that we were all in this together.”
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