Upcoming Events

Additional events and program listings are available on the WCL Calendar

Recent Highlights

Apr 2012 - The National Immigrant Women's Advocacy Project received a sub-award totaling $21,000 from the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence (ultimate source U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) for the Women of Color Network.

Apr 2012 - The National Immigrant Women's Advocacy Project received a sub-award totaling $245,267 from Legal Momentum (ultimate source U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance) for its Connecting Law Enforcement to Immigrant Victims of Crime Project.

Apr 2012 - The National Immigrant Women's Advocacy Project received a sub-award totaling $578,568 from Legal Momentum (ultimate source U.S. Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women) for the Immigrant Women’s Technical Assistance Project.

Apr 2012 - The Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law received a $15,000 award from "The Woods" Charitable Foundation for the Human Trafficking and Forced Labor Program's Nepal Research Project.

Mar 2012 - The Women & International Law Program and the War Crimes Research Office received a two-part award totaling $195,774 from the Open Society Institute for the third year of their collaborative Gender & International Criminal Law Jurisprudence Database Project.

 

Welcome to the Office of Grants and Programs

The Office of Grants and Programs supports many of the law school's innovative initiatives and works closely with AU's Office of Sponsored Programs. Please contact us with questions!

GRANT-RELATED NEWS

Certificate Ceremony held in April for Humphrey Fellows

The annual Certificate Ceremony celebrates the Humphrey Fellows’ accomplishments during their program. Speakers included representatives from the U.S. Department of State and the Institute of International Education, Humphrey Fellows and Humphrey Coordinators. The Humphrey Fellowships were granted competitively to mid career professional candidates from developing countries that showed commitment to both the public and the private sector. This year Washington College of Law is hosting eleven Fellows from Angola, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Chile, Egypt, Jordan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Yemen and Zimbabwe. Click here for more information on the Humphrey Fellowship Program at WCL.

American University Washington College of Law and Legal Momentum Collaborate to Form New National Immigrant Women's Advocacy Project (NIWAP)

NIWAP will address the needs of immigrant women victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and other crimes by advocating for reforms in law and policy and providing training and technical assistance to lawyers, judges, law enforcement, social workers, and policy advocates across the United States. MORE...

WCL Fellow Macarena Saez Plays Key Role in Landmark Decision by the Inter-American Court on Human Rights

Macarena Saez is a Fellow in the International Legal Studies Program and teaches at WCL in the areas of Comparative Law and Comparative Family Law. She is also a recipient of funding from the Ford Foundation for her work on the Latin American Initiative on Justice, Gender, and Sexuality.

Saez, along with two co-counsel from Chile, represented Judge Karen Atala after the Chilean Supreme Court awarded custody of her three daughters to her ex-husband because Atala was living with her same-sex partner. The Inter-American Court on Human Rights ruled that the Supreme Court's holding in Karen Atala V. Chile violated the American Convention on Human Rights. MORE...

 

CURRENT GRANT OPPORTUNITIES

Kluge Center Fellowships for Residential Research in Humanities and Social Sciences - Deadline July 15

Research Grant on Understanding Violence, Aggression, and Dominance from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation - Deadline August 1

2013-14 Core Fulbright Scholar Program - Deadline August 1

Fellowship for Humanists and Social Scientists from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University - Deadline October 1


Additional grant resources can be found at the following links:

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