Mar 19 Tue
2019

Satellite Technology: The Role in Development and Opportunity for Lawyers

12:00PM - 02:00PM Tenley Campus - Warren NT01 Ceremonial Classroom

The Director General of the International Telecommunication Satellite Organization (ITSO), Mr. Patrick Masambu, will discuss the current legal challenges for satellite technology, and the opportunities these technologies provide for economic development. He will address the international legal framework for the deployment, operation and disposal of satellites, and how they are used to achieve a more just economic development that benefits all countries worldwide.

This conference is aimed at practitioners who work in the field of satellite law, as well as students that are interested in contemporary topics of international law. The program is sponsored by the Program on International Communications Regulation and Policy at American University Washington College of Law, in cooperation with ITSO.

Registration is free, but required.  To register, please go to www.wcl.american.edu/secle/registration.

  • Lecture
  • Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
  • CLE
Mar 19 Tue
2019

Health Law Legislative and Regulatory Practice Colloquium Series: Sex-Based Discrimination under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act: Implications for People who are Transgender

06:00PM - 07:50PM Tenley Campus - Warren N101 Classroom

Health Law and Policy Program presents: Health Law Legislative and Regulatory Practice Colloquium Series - Spring 2019. Join us for a series of events highlighting current developments in health law and policy.

Sex-Based Discrimination under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act: Implications for People who are Transgender

Featuring:

Elliot Kennedy, AUWCL JD 2012, HHS Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Luc Athayde-Rizzaro, AUWCL LLM 2017, Policy Counsel, National Center for Transgender Equality

Mara Youdelman, Managing Attorney, National Health Law Program (tentative)

Cosponsored by the Women and the Law Program, the AUWCL chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, and the AUWCL chapter of the American Constitution Society

RSVP to health@wcl.american.edu

 

  • Conference
  • Open To The Public, Alumni AND Students
Mar 20 Wed
2019

Office of Academic Excellence: Walk-by Wednesdays

10:00AM - 02:00PM Tenley Campus - Yuma Commons

Stop by the Office of Academic Excellence table in the Commons every first and third Wednesday of the month to ask questions you may have about the bar, academic skills or your schedule/classes.

  • Information Session
  • Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
Mar 21 Thu
2019

4th National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference

All Day Washington College of Law

The Fourth National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference will be held March 21-24, 2019, at American University Washington College of Law in Washington, DC. The Conference will feature distinguished keynote speakers, plenary sessions, concurrent panel discussions, works-in-progress workshops, and incubator sessions to discuss research, writing, and pedagogy ideas. 

The theme of the Conference is People of Color and the Future of Democracy. The Conference will explore how people of color and allies, preserve and safeguard democracy in legal teaching and scholarship, particularly with respect to marginalized communities

  • Conference
  • Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND
Mar 21 Thu
2019

Is Congress Broken?

12:00PM - 01:30PM N102

Hear from Congressional experts with a range of perspectives, including:

Kathy Dedrick, Majority Staff Director, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

James Wallner, Senior Fellow, R Street Institute, former Executive Director, Senate Republican Steering Committee


The discussion will be moderated by Professor Bettina Poirier, Senior Affiliate, WCL, Law and Government Program. There will be an opportunity for Q & A during this program.

Pizza and refreshments will be served 

 

  • Seminar
  • Open To Students