A World of Endless Opportunities
The law school’s groundbreaking initiatives and comprehensive programs make an American University Washington College of Law education a complete experience. Students, faculty, and alumni enrich their legal understanding, broaden their perspectives, specialize in cutting-edge legal fields, and serve others by participating in any one of the innovative programs available at the law school.
- Academy on Human Rights & Humanitarian Law
- Brazil-U.S. Legal and Judicial Studies Program
- Business Law Program
- Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law
- Center on International Commercial Arbitration
- Clinical Program
- Criminal Justice Practice and Policy Institute
- Economic Justice Program
- End Silence: The Project on Addressing Prison Rape
- Environmental and Energy Law Program
- Externship Program
- Health Law and Policy Program
- International & Comparative Legal Studies Program
- Law and Government Program
- Lawyering Peace Program
- Legal Language Programs
- Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project
- National Immigrant Women's Advocacy Project
- Office of Public Interest
- Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property
- Program on International Organizations, Law and Development
- Syrian Initiative
- Tech, Law & Security Program
- Trade, Investment and Development Program
- Trial Advocacy Program
- War Crimes Research Office
- Women and the Law Program
AUWCL: Home to the Nation's Top-Ranked Programs
Here at American University Washington College of Law, we take pride of our renowned areas of excellence, including Experiential Education, International and Comparative Law, Trial Advocacy, Intellectual Property, and Health Law initiatives and programs.
Specialty Rankings
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#2in Clinical Training
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#5in Trial Advocacy
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#8in Intellectual Property
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#8in Part-Time Law
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#9in International Law
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#15in Health Care Law
Programs Highlights
Upcoming Events
January
06
8:30AM-4:30PM
Tenley Campus - Yuma YT17 Classroom
Business Basics Bootcamp - Day 1
January
07
8:30AM-6:30PM
Tenley Campus - Yuma YT17 Classroom
Business Basics Bootcamp - Day 2
January
23
3:30PM-6:15PM
Tenley Campus - Yuma YT01 Grossman Hall
Spring 2020 Externship Fair
January
30
5:30PM-8:30PM
Washington College of Law
Public Domain Day 2020 - A Celebration of Our Shared Culture and Heritage
January
31
9:00AM-5:00PM
Tenley Campus - Yuma YT01 Grossman Hall
Volume 69 Annual Symposium Democracy and the Law: 2020
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Recent Publications
International & Comparative Law
The Enemies of Sudan's Democracy Are Lurking Everywhere
Rebecca Hamilton
December 9, 2019
Law & Government
The GOP Says Trump Was Fighting Corruption. He Hasn't Done that Anywhere.
Nancy Boswell
November 27, 2019
Immigration Law
The Fragility of American Citizenship
Amanda Frost
October 9, 2019
Criminal Law
Perjury by Omission
Ira Robbins
September 27, 2019
Immigration Law
The Racism Behind Trump's New 'Public Charge' Immigration Policy, Explained
Cori Alonso-Yoder
August 26, 2019
Public Interest Law
Holes in the Safety Net: Federalism and Poverty
Ezra Rosser
August 1, 2019
Washington College of Law
Justice John Paul Stevens and the Slow Evolution of the Law
Amanda Cohen Leiter
July 18, 2019
Human Rights & Humanitarian Law
Draft Charter of Pompeo's "Commission on Unalienable Rights" Hides Anti-Human Rights Agenda
Rebecca Hamilton
June 7, 2019
Washington College of Law
Acting Differently: How Science on the Social Brain Can Inform Antidiscrimination Law
Susan Carle
May 31, 2019
Intellectual Property, Technology & Cyber
This 'Fake News' Law Threatens Free Speech. But It Doesn't Stop There.
Jeniffer Daskal
May 31, 2019
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