News & Events

Lawyers Have Heart announced that Associate Dean of Student Affairs David Jaffe will serve as co-chair starting with the planning for the 2021 event. This race, in support of the American Heart Association, is the largest of its kind in D.C. each year. AUWCL participated in the 30th Anniversary of American Heart Association’s Lawyers Have Heart race, held virtually this year June 12-14.

For the past several months, WCL has taken a leadership role in our home jurisdiction when it comes to advocating for diploma privilege. Learn how.

American University Washington College of Law Professor Angela J. Davis – a nationally recognized expert in criminal law and procedure with a focus on prosecutorial power and racism in the criminal justice system – was recently nominated and promoted to Distinguished Professor of Law effective Sept. 1.

All law school courses will be delivered remotely for the fall 2020 semester, our community’s access to campus will be scheduled and very limited, and plans for in-person instruction for select 1L courses are therefore suspended.

American University Washington College of Law congratulates Professor Susan Bennett, co-director and founder of the Community and Economic Development Law Clinic, for being awarded American University’s Outstanding Community Engagement Award.