Examining Conditions of Confinement: Adults and Children Deprived of Human Rights
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
Champions Challenge - 36 Hours of Giving
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
Redefining Free Speech for the Digital Age
- Conference
- Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
Symposium on Economic Analysis of Law: 6th Annual Conference of Brazilian & American Judges
- Conference
- Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
- CLE
So You Want to be a Public Defender?
Come hear from DC-area current and former public defenders who will discuss their experiences as public defenders, give advice, and answer questions. Pizza will be served! Co-Sponsored by the WCL Criminal Justice Practice and Policy Institute and the Office of Public Interest
- Information Session
- Open To Students AND Faculty/Staff