News & Events

Dean Camille Nelson was named among the Top 35 Women in Higher Education by Diverse Issues in Higher Education magazine. Their special section, “Celebrating Women in the Academy,” was released March 21, 2019. Nelson is the only law school dean on the list that features 11 university and college presidents, several vice presidents and provosts, and the president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities among other exceptional professors and administrators.

American University Washington College of Law’s Black Law Students Association  (BLSA) was awarded 2019 Chapter of the Year by the Mid-Atlantic Black Law Student Association.

On Tuesday, March 19, American University Washington College of Law welcomed former International Court of Justice Judge and former AUWCL Dean Thomas Buergenthal – one of the world’s leading international law and international human rights scholars – for a conversation with Professor and Dean Emeritus Claudio Grossman.

As a champion of diversity and innovation in legal scholarship, American University Washington College of Law is proud to host the Fourth National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference (NPOC19): People of Color and the Future of Democracy, March 21-24.

American University Washington College of Law is pleased to have six specialty programs highly ranked in the 2020 U.S. News and World Report rankings released March 12, 2019. We are ranked #2 for Clinical Legal Education, #5 for Trial Advocacy, #8 for Intellectual Property, #8 Part-time JD program, and #9 for International Law – five programs in the top 10! Our Health Law and Policy Program is at #15 in the Health Care Law category.