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During the week of Nov. 9, 2020, American University Washington College of Law’s Sports and Entertainment Law Society (SELS) and Black Law Students Association (BLSA) hosted a two-part speaker series on race and the power of networking in the sports and entertainment spaces.

American University Washington College of Law has once again received top rankings from PreLaw Magazine, including an A+ for Business Law and an A for Criminal Law in new rankings released in its Fall 2020 issue.

Oct Nov. 6, the Program on Law and Government and the American University Law Review (AULR) hosted a symposium on federal government oversight and accountability, featuring a keynote fireside chat with Glenn Fine, former Inspector General of the Department of Justice and former Acting Inspector General of the Department of Defense.

American University Washington College of Law is proud to announce five outstanding professors as winners of the law school’s annual Teaching and Service Awards. Recipients of the awards were recognized for their innovative teaching and service both in and outside of the classroom during virtual ceremony held Thursday, Nov. 5.

The Disability Rights Law Clinic (DRLC) was founded by Professor and Acting Dean Robert Dinerstein in 2005. Though his work in AUWCL’s nationally-ranked Clinic Program began within the Criminal Justice Clinic, Dinerstein noticed how often these criminal clinic cases raised disability issues. Creating a clinic where student attorneys could work on representing clients with disabilities, who so often do not have quality representation, would benefit both the client and student, he said.