International and Comparative Law

Professor and Dean Emeritus Claudio Grossman offered a seminar in human rights in the Training Session for Legal Professionals and Students "Los Derechos de Las Mujeres y los Derechos Humanos” at the Faculty of Law, the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

AUWCL hosts the Program on Comparative Judging, a unique two-day roundtable discussion for Judges from the United States, France, Italy, Japan and Brazil. Judges discussed a wide variety of issues facing Judges in virtually all legal systems around the world.

A presentation and reception was held on the afternoon of June 12 at the headquarters of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington, DC to launch Professor and Dean Emeritus Claudio Grossman’s book International Law and Reparations: The Inter-American System, co-authored by AUWCL alumni Agustina del Campo and Mina A. Trudeau.

Daphna Hacker LL.M. ’96 won the Herbert Jacob Book Prize for her book Legalized Families in the Era of Bordered Globalization, that was named as the best book in law and society scholarship published in 2017.  The prize was presented to Hacker on June 7 at the 2018 Law and Society Association Awards ceremony in Toronto, Canada.

The International Jurist, a magazine from the publishers of National Jurist and Prelaw, has recognized American University Washington College of Law (AUWCL) as one of 25 law schools across the nation to offer the best experience for lawyers from outside the U.S.

LL.M. and JD students attended the Seventieth Session of the International Law Commission. After in depth study of normative texts adopted by the ILC, students had a chance to meet all members of the ILC, discuss current happenings at the Seventieth Session of the ILC as well as share their feedback on proposed drafts.