International and Comparative Law

Professor of Law Janie Chuang gives Jerome Hall Lecture at Indiana University Maurer School of Law. As one of the leading scholars on labor and human trafficking, her lecture gives an analysis of the success and failures of the United Nations protocol on human trafficking as well as the United States domestic anti-trafficking law and policy.

AUWCL Professor David Hunter and Professor Emeritus Daniel Bradlow recently edited a book titled Advocating Social Change through International Law, published December 2019 by Brill.  

In her public interview with CGTN America, Professor Ala’I discussed international trade tensions and recent interactions with President Trump and the World Trade Organization.

On February 5, 2020, American University Washington College of Law hosted the first workshop of the Comparative Law Initiative in Washington, DC (CLIW) co-sponsored by GW and George Mason Law Schools on the topic of Poland’s Anti-Constitutional Backslide. The lecture focused on Wojciech Sadurski’s new book Poland’s Constitutional Breakdown, which is the first book-length case study on the Polish context and critique of its newly established illiberal democracy. The panelists included Herman Schwartz, Professor of Law Emeritus at AUWCL; Wojciech Sadurski, Challis Professor of Jurisprudence, the University of Sydney & Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School; Mark Graber, Professor of Constitutional Law at University of Maryland Carey School of Law; and Francesca Bignami, Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School.

Professor Janie Chuang has recently seen her research and warnings of the possible abuses of the au pair program in the United States resonate with the courts and reflect in new trends in case law. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit recognized in December 2, 2019 judgment that the au pair program has to adhere to minimum wage standards in force in the state of Massachusetts. The court recognized what Prof. Chuang already demanded in a 2013 article published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender. 

On Wednesday, February 19, AUWCL’s International and Comparative Legal Studies program hosted a transdisciplinary panel discussion about today’s political and social crisis in the Middle East. The panelists, including three Hubert Humphrey Fellows, approached this topic from the perspective of international relations, domestic politics, and international humanitarian law.