News & Events

Students enrolled in Professor Sunita Patel’s Migrants in the Criminal Justice System course lined up at 4:00 am last week to attend the historic U.S. Supreme Court argument in Abassi v. Ashcroft. The case challenged conditions of confinement following the post 9/11 round-ups and detentions of South Asian and Arab Muslim men. 

The American University Law Review is proud to present its annual Federal Circuit Symposium, Identifying Boundaries in Patent and Trademark Law, on Friday, January 27. The symposium will feature two panels with opening remarks by Judge William H. Pauley III. 

Congratulations to Professor Angela Davis, who was elected as a member of the American Law Institute (ALI). The American Law Institute is the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and improve the law. 

Molly Rose Green ’14 has been hard at work since she finished her time in law school. She has since moved to Kentucky, and received the Yale Initiative for Public Interest Law Fellowship. The focus of her year-long project was to help more people in Kentucky clear their criminal records. She was also recently awarded the 2016 KACDL Clarence Darrow Prodigy Award by the Board of Directors of the Kentucky Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. 

Law, Justice and Development Week (LJD Week) is a unique event hosted yearly at The World Bank, which brings together the global community interested in using law and justice tools to contribute to development. Since 2014, the Program on International Organizations Law and Diplomacy (PIOLD) at American University Washington College of Law (AUWCL) has been a co-sponsor of Law, Justice and Development Week with students from the program supporting the event and helping The World Bank staff host more than 1,200 participants and speakers.