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American University Washington College of Law’s Black Law Students Association (BLSA) was awarded 2020 Chapter of the Year by the Mid-Atlantic Black Law Student Association (“MABLSA”).

“My legal education was happening at a time when people were being killed for their ideas,” said Macarena Saez, faculty director of the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. “Human rights wasn’t just a theoretical thing but the standard for the violations we were living through.”

American University Washington College of Law is pleased to have six specialty programs highly ranked in the 2021 U.S. News and World Report rankings released March 17, 2020. We are ranked #2 for Clinical Legal Education, #4 for International Law, #4 for Trial Advocacy, #6 for our Part-time JD program, #10 for Intellectual Property, and #11 for Health Care Law.

As a former student-athlete at San Diego State University '16 and current law student at AUWCL, 2L Alexandria Adkins bridges those worlds through her legal scholarship on sports law.

On Monday, March 9, the American University Business Law Review presented its second annual Women in Business Law Leadership Conference. Closing out a week of International Women’s Day celebrations at AUWCL, the all-women conference was designed to showcase the day-to-day work of and incredible contributions by women in business and business law.