News & Events

Congratulations to the finalists of the 2015 William & Mary International Law Negotiation Invitational. AUWCL’s team of Jacqueline Youm (3L) and Courtney Taylor (2L) competed against 15 other law schools at William & Mary School of Law on October 24 – 25.

Starting Nov. 9, Dean Claudio Grossman, chairperson of the United Nations Committee against Torture (UN CAT), will preside over the Committee's 56th session in Geneva, Switzerland, and serve as country rapporteur for Austria.

On Wednesday, Oct. 27, the Attorney General of Colombia Eduardo Montealegre visited American University Washington College of Law to create a partnership on academic cooperation between the law school and the Attorney General’s Office. Through this partnership, American University Washington College of Law will provide trainings for the officials from the Office of the Attorney General in the area of international human rights. 

Last week, American University Washington College of Law Professor Angela Davis delivered the 35th Founders’ Lecture during the Washington Bar Association’s 37th Annual Ollie May Cooper Award ceremony at Howard University School of Law.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2015 Peter James Johnson National Civil Rights Trial Competition 2Ls Christine Varghese, Monisha Rao, Brian Tan, and 3L Stephen Ollar! Competing at the St. John’s University School of Law Oct. 22-25, our students won the case, which focused on a fictional Baloba quarantine story and involved claims of negligence and wrongful discharge in violation of public policy.