Feb 20 Thu
2020

Clinical Program Open House!

04:00PM - 06:00PM Tenley Campus - Yuma

Come check out the clinic space (Y265), see where our students do their work, and learn more about our program offerings!  Mingle with clinic faculty, staff, and current students while enjoying some tacos and donuts!

  • Reception
  • Open To Students AND Faculty/Staff
Feb 21 Fri
2020

Examining Conditions of Confinement: Adults and Children Deprived of Human Rights

09:00AM - 03:00PM Tenley Campus - Yuma YT01 Grossman Hall

The first panel will discuss challenges faced by adult women and LGBTQ+ populations, while confined in jails, prisons, and immigration detention facilities. The panelists will discuss issues related to physical and sexual safety, access to reproductive healthcare, and access to medications, as well as, gender-affirming clothing for transgender and gender non-conforming individuals. Lunch will be served during the keynote address given by Charlotte Morrison, senior attorney for the Equal Justice Initiative. The second panel will examine the challenges children face while confined in adult prisons and jails, juvenile detention facilities, and immigration detention. Discussants will focus on the physical, psychological, and sexual safety of juveniles in confinement and educational consequences of being confined.

  • Conference
  • Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
Feb 24 Mon
2020

Champions Challenge - 36 Hours of Giving

07:00AM - 07:00PM

ARE YOU READY TO GO ALL IN FOR WCL?

During the 2020 Champions Challenge, join fellow alumni and the entire American University Washington College of Law community, and make a gift to go #AllInForWCL!

Your gift of any size to WCL will bring us closer to a new philanthropic record – 200 donors in 36 hours.

Accept the challenge. Make your gift on February 24-25.

  • Fundraiser
  • Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
Feb 24 Mon
2020

Redefining Free Speech for the Digital Age

03:00PM - 07:00PM Tenley Campus - Warren NT01 Ceremonial Classroom

The internet has set us free. The internet will destroy our democracy. Both the utopian and apocalyptic hype share a common belief that there is something unprecedented about the power of digital communications online. 

Future Tense and the Tech, Law & Security Program at American University Washington College of Law are launching a collaborative year-long Free Speech Project, an open-minded and far-reaching inquiry into the current state, and future prospects, of free speech. Does the revolution of communications technology we’ve witnessed over the past quarter-century demand a fundamental re-evaluation of traditional (and close to absolutist) American free speech tenets—or should we reassert these tenets as timeless and all the more essential to our current environment? What are the roles and responsibilities of tech companies that mediate our speech online? Who decides what we can and can’t say? 

Please join us for the launch event on February 24 at the American University Washington College of Law, located at 4300 Nebraska Avenue NW, Warren Building, Ceremonial Classroom, where we will begin our exploration of these questions with an exciting group of thinkers to look at how similar debates around speech have played out in the past. 

  • Conference
  • Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
Feb 27 Thu
2020

Symposium on Economic Analysis of Law: 6th Annual Conference of Brazilian & American Judges

08:00AM - 05:45PM Tenley Campus - Warren NT01 Ceremonial Classroom

Thursday, February 27, 2020
Registration: 8am to 9am
Panels: 9 am to 5:45pm
Friday, February 28, 2020
Panels: 9:30am to 6:30pm

  • Conference
  • Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
  • CLE