Nov 16 Wed
2022

Changing In-House Industries & Leveraging Unrelated Experiences

12:00PM - 01:00PM

Come join the Office of Development and Alumni Relations and this month's Mentor of the Month, Hannah Pagán for a webinar. Hannah is Corporate Counsel on the Slack commercial legal team. She negotiates sales contracts with customers for subscribing to the Slack communication and productivity platform and associated services. Prior to Salesforce and Slack, she was Counsel at CoStar Realty Information, Inc., supporting sales contracts for their many products. Before landing in commercial contracts, Hannah also worked in house at Wellstat, a biopharmaceutical firm in Rockville, MD, and at Obsidian Analysis, a government consulting firm in downtown DC.

  • Presentation
  • Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
Nov 16 Wed
2022

International Trends in Human Trafficking

12:00PM - 01:30PM Washington College of Law

Please join us in-person at American University, Washington College of Law for a panel discussion on recent global trends in human trafficking. Lunch will also be provided. The presentations will include discussions on the root causes, debunking myths, diplomatic immunity, strategic litigation, and so much more. This event will be moderated by our very own Humphrey Fellow, Mae Flores. Mae is a Deputy Regional Prosecutor of the Philippines Department of Justice and an anti-trafficking advocate. We will be joined by the following experts:

  • Maggie Baingana, Founder and Managing Partner, Shield Associates in Rwanda
  • Dr. Denise Brennan, Professor and Head of Department of Anthropology, Georgetown University
  • Neha Misra, Global Lead, Migration and Human Trafficking, The Solidarity Center
  • Martina Vandenberg, Founder and President, The Human Trafficking Legal Center

Date: Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Time: 12-1:30 PM

Location: Washington College of Law | Claudio Grossman Hall

Questions? Contact us at nl2860a@american.edu

  • Conference
  • Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
Nov 16 Wed
2022

2022 Arbitration Annual Lecture: The Hidden World of International

02:00PM - 03:30PM Online via Zoom

The 2022 Annual Lecture will be presented virtually in the 2022 fall by Dr Campbell McLachlan KC. More

The Washington College of Law Annual International Commercial Arbitration Lecture, provides a public forum to present and discuss current issues and trends in international Commercial and Investment arbitration. The 2005 inaugural lecture was presented by Gerald Aksen and since then on, has featured the world’s foremost experts in international commercial and investment arbitration.

The Arbitration Annual Lecture seeks to contribute to the development of scholarship and honor individuals who have distinguished themselves in the field.

  • Lecture
  • Open To Students, Faculty/Staff AND
Nov 16 Wed
2022

ESG Information Session with Reco Charity, Associate in Corporate Department at Paul | Weiss

06:00PM - 08:00PM Grossman Hall

Reco Charity is an associate in the Corporate Department and a member of both the Mergers & Acquisitions and the Sustainability & ESG Advisory groups. Reco focuses his practice on advising clients on mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, carve-outs, private equity investments, restructurings, ESG strategy and integration, and general corporate transactions. He provides strategic counsel to global private equity firms and companies across a variety of industries, including manufacturing, technology and healthcare, among others. In addition, Reco represents a number of nonprofit clients on a pro bono basis.

  • Lecture
  • Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
Nov 17 Thu
2022

“An Afternoon with an Advocate” Attorney Lance Wade, Esquire: lead defense counsel in U.S. v. Elizabeth A. Holmes

12:00PM - 01:00PM Washington College of Law- NT01

Join us in a discussion with noted white-collar defense counsel, Lance Wade, in the inaugural "Afternoon with an Advocate" series, presented by the Stephen S. Weinstein Advocacy Program.  Attorney Wade is a partner at Williams & Connolly LLP, and lead defense counsel in U.S. v. Elizabeth A. Holmes, the high-profile criminal fraud case that made headlines around the world and rocked the biotech community.  

Ms. Holmes is a former biotechnology entrepreneur and CEO of Theranos, a now-defunct health technology company that soared in valuation after the company claimed to have revolutionized blood testing by developing methods that could use surprisingly small volumes of blood, such as from a fingerprick. This case is the subject of a book, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, an HBO documentary feature film, The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley; and a Hulu miniseries called The Dropout.  

Dean Roger A. Fairfax will welcome Attorney Wade and Cynthia Goode Works, Director of the Stephen S. Weinstein Advocacy Program, and Asha Scielzo, Director of the Health Law and Policy Program, will serve as moderators. 

This event will be hosted at AUWCL in Room NT01, Ceremonial Classroom. Lunch will be provided. 

Registration is free but required. 

  • Presentation
  • Open To Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff