News & Events

American University Washington College of Law congratulates Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón, professorial lecturer in residence and co-director of the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, on his appointment to the United Nations Committee against Torture.

The AUWCL mock trial team won Second Place at The Summit Cup Mock Trial Competition hosted by University of Denver Sturm College of Law in Denver, Colorado the last weekend of September.  The competition is an invitation only tournament of champions.

The Center on International Commercial Arbitration is hosting an outstanding series of events this fall, starting with the 12th Annual International Commercial Arbitration Lecture Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017, 5:30 p.m. at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP. The 2017 Annual Lecture will be presented by Pierre Mayer, emeritus professor at the University of Paris I and international arbitrator. The lecture is sponsored by Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP.

Pernell Jackson, currently in his second year at AUWCL, didn’t plan to go to law school.  Following a five-year stint in the armed services, he decided to pursue law enforcement and joined the Prince Georges County police department. “As a police officer I felt I was helping victims pick up the pieces from a crime,” he said. “But I could see that as a prosecutor, I could seek justice on their behalf by focusing on the criminal. That’s when I decided to pursue law.”

AUWCL welcomed Securities and Exchange Commissioner Michael S. Piwowar to the law school early this semester to speak to an enthusiastic group of students. The Sept. 12 event kicked-off the Business Law Program’s line-up of events for the 2017–2018 academic year.