Nov 04 Mon
2019

Pro Bono Training: Washington Lawyer's Committee Workers' Rights Clnic

12:00PM - 01:00PM

Do you care about workers rights? Are you i nterested in labor and employment law? Looking for a way to give back? For workers that need help with employment law problems, the Washington Lawyers’ Committee holds a weekly Workers’ Rights Clinic where low-income workers can walk in without an appointment and have a one-on-one consultation with a trained Intake Volunteer who will provide legal advice and assistance with brief services, under the supervision of an experienced employment law attorney. Law student volunteers assist attorneys with intake. You must attend a training to participate in the project. Email publicinterest@wcl.american.edu.

  • Training
  • Open To Students
Nov 04 Mon
2019

Seeing the Invisible with Professor Shalleck

04:30PM - 05:30PM Tenley Campus - Warren N104 Seminar Room

How does gender impact the law of Torts, Contracts, Property Civil Procedure? Does the law you discuss in those classes reinforce or challenge traditional gender roles?

Be re-reading the case of O'Brien v. Cunard, Professor Shalleck will help you spot the often overlooked role gender plays in many of your 1-L cases.

Space is limited! RSVP is required!

womenlaw@wcl.american.edu 

  • Seminar
  • Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
Nov 05 Tue
2019

XV Symposium on International Trade: Seeking Answers to a Changing Trading System

08:30AM - 05:00PM Tenley Campus - Warren NT01 Ceremonial Classroom

Please join us for a day-long symposium on international trade on November 5th with policymakers and academics to discuss current challenges in the multilateral and US trading system. The Symposium on International Trade is a premier trade event of the ABCI Institute and WCL’s Trade, Investment and Development Program. The full-day event will include four panels and a luncheon.

  • Conference
  • Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
  • CLE
Nov 05 Tue
2019

IP at Supreme Court Series: Allen v. Cooper

04:30PM - 07:30PM Tenley Campus - Capital C116 Weinstein Courtroom

Issue:
Whether Congress validly abrogated state sovereign immunity via the Copyright Remedy Clarification Act in providing remedies for authors of original expression whose federal copyrights are infringed by states.
PIJIP'S SUPREME COURT SERIES

American University Washington College of Law regularly invites counsel of record and counsel for selected amici to offer post-argument reflections in intellectual property (and related) cases heard by the Supreme Court. These events are held on the afternoon of oral argument before the Court. 

  • Lecture
  • Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
  • CLE
Nov 06 Wed
2019

Impeachment: The Constitutional Remedy of Last Resort

12:00PM - 01:30PM Tenley Campus - Capital C116 Weinstein Courtroom

Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Law Louis Caldera and two attorneys — Daniel Freeman and Alan Baron — who worked for the House Judiciary Committee on every impeachment inquiry in the past 40 years will discuss the impeachment process including the House’s role in an impeachment investigation and its adoption of articles of impeachment, as well as the Senate’s role in the subsequent trials. They will also discuss the philosophy behind the creation of the impeachment remedy contained in the constitution and how effective that philosophy has been. Panel hosted by David Barker. RSVP at https://american.swoogo.com/impeachment

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