5-Minute Lectures: Indigenous Rights and Columbus Day, w/Prof. Ezra Rosser
The Student Advisory Board’s 5-Minute Lecture Series brings together WCL professors and students to chat about today’s hottest legal topics in human rights. These mini-lectures include a short intro, with a Q&A to follow. Join us for coffee and cookies the week of October 14th to explore the intersections of human rights and immigration, climate change, gender, race, intellectual property, indigenous rights, and citizenship.
- Lecture
- Open To Students AND Faculty/Staff
5-Minute Lectures: Intellectual Property, w/Prof. Meredith Jacobs
The Student Advisory Board’s 5-Minute Lecture Series brings together WCL professors and students to chat about today’s hottest legal topics in human rights. These mini-lectures include a short intro, with a Q&A to follow. Join us for coffee and cookies the week of October 14th to explore the intersections of human rights and immigration, climate change, gender, race, intellectual property, indigenous rights, and citizenship.
- Lecture
- Open To Students AND Faculty/Staff
The Shift in Stop and Frisk
A discussion on changes in searches and seizures and stop and frisks. Reviewing recent Supreme Court opinions, District of Columbia, Virginia and Maryland cases addressing reasonable suspicion, probable cause, and exigent circumstances. How these changes effect officer's actions when performing stop and frisks and establishing reasonable suspicion or probable cause.
Featuring the following speakers:
Professor Angela Davis, Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law.
Kenneth Troccoli, Senior Litigator, Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Eastern District of Virginia; Adjunct Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law
Michael Bruckheim, Partner, Bruckheim & Patel, Washington, D.C.; Adjunct Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law
CLE Credit Information:
1.0 CLE credit hours will be provided for states of New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia upon the request of attendees. American University Washington College of Law is an accredited CLE provider for Virginia and Pennsylvania, with reciprocity for New York and New Jersey, and with accreditation for all other states applied for as requested. An application requesting MCLE credit for this activity is pending for approval by the State Bar of California.
For more information upon how to obtain CLE credits by attending this symposium, please contact cle@wcl.american.edu.
- Conference
- Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
- CLE
MD Bar Exam/Character & Fitness
Learn about the character and fitness requirements to be barred in Maryland from a Maryland bar examiner! Join the Office of Academic Excellence on Tuesday, October 15 from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm in NT08.
- Information Session
- Open To Students
Commonly Asked Bar Questions
Stop by the Commons to ask the OAE and Lexis any aching questions about the bar exam!
- Presentation
- Open To Students