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Each summer, the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law hosts the Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court Competition and its world-renowned Program on Advanced Studies in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, providing practical approaches to human rights law and helping to strengthen humanitarian laws around the world.

American University Washington College of Law recently awarded Kyle Ehlers ’21 with the Myers Scholarship Award. The Myers Law Scholarship, AUWCL’s most prestigious donor award, provides one-year scholarships to full-time JD students who show academic promise and performance.

On Monday, April 26, Congressman and AUWCL Professor Emeritus Jamie Raskin and Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett ’94 joined the American University community for a conversation on insights from their experiences as impeachment managers in the second impeachment trial of former President Donald J. Trump.

American University Washington College of Law 3L Catherine “Cat” Walker has been named recipient of the 2021 Peter M. Cicchino Awards for Outstanding Advocacy in the Public Interest.

Offered for the first time at AUWCL this spring, the 8-week Movement Lawyering course was taught by Adjunct Associate Professor Tasnim Motala. “As movement lawyers, we fight for big and systemic change. We recognize that the law is not and has never been neutral to race, class, sexuality, and gender, and that justice and freedom will not come without challenging the foundations of our legal regime that uphold and entrench these inequalities.”