News & Events

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.

On March 8, American University Washington College of Law welcomed leading antitrust academics and practitioners to discuss the themes presented in Professor Jonathan B. Baker's forthcoming book, The Antitrust Paradigm: Restoring a Competitive Economy.