On Saturday, November 21, the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project will host 80 high school students for its annual William H. Karchmer Fall Moot Court Competition. Forty-nine Marshall-Brennan Fellows from WCL and Howard Law School have worked hard to prepare their students, who hail from eleven DC public high schools and one Montgomery County public high school, for the competition. For more information, please contact Professor Maryam Ahranjani at 202-274-4387 or mahranjani@wcl.american.edu.
On Monday, Nov. 23, the Dean's Diversity Council will hold its Annual Program and Dinner. The opening portion, "Revisiting Scottsboro," begins at 4:15 p.m, and will include an examination of these historical trials from a modern legal, literary, and social perspective. Participants in the conversation will be the Honorable Robert Bell, chief judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryland; WCL Professor Angela Jordan Davis, author of Arbitrary Justice: The Power of the American Prosecutor; and Professor James A. Miller, chair of the American Studies Dept. at George Washington University and author of the recently published Remembering Scottsboro: The Legacy of an Infamous Trial. The dinner program will be presented by Sanya Sukduang '99, partner at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP, on his career path and intellectual property law. The event is sponsored by the Dean's Diversity Council and the Office of Diversity Services.
The Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law has been invited by the United Nations Population Fund to conduct a comparative analysis of the international and regional human rights of elderly persons. Claudia Martin and Diego Rodríguez Pinzón, Academy's Co-directors, are the principal investigators. The project will enable them to expand their research on the rights of the elderly. Vladislav Michal?ík, '08 will assist with the project and coordinate the team of student researchers. Read more about the Academy's human rights training programs.
Professor Robert Dinerstein, director of Washington College of Law's Clinical Program, will be awarded the William Pincus Award at the Association of American Law Schools Annual Conference in New Orleans, January 2010. The Pincus Award honors one or more individuals or institutions of clinical legal education who have demonstrated excellence in service, scholarship, program design and implementation, and other activity beneficial to clinical education or to the advancement of justice.
American University Washington College of Law welcomes two visiting professors for the 2010 spring semester, both of whom will be presenting specialized courses available to our students.
Professor Amichai Cohen, Senior Lecturer at Ono Academic College in Israel, will present Selected Topics in International Law and Politics. The course critically evaluates the international laws and politics associated with recent historical events, in addition to examining decisions of international courts around the globe. Professor Muriel Fabre-Magnan, Professor of Law at the University of Paris I (Sorbonne), will teach Comparative Tort Law, which compares the main western traditions of tort law, including French, Italian, and German law. The course focuses not only on the technical aspects of tort law but also the anthropological dimension.
