News & Events

On July 12, 2018, Adrian Alvarez, a practitioner-in-residence with the Disability Rights Law Clinic, arrived at Casa Padre, a facility on the U.S.-Mexico border in Brownsville, Texas, that the nonprofit Southwest Key operates under a U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) contract to detain unaccompanied immigrant boys. His task: spend two days interviewing six boys—ranging in age from 13 to 17—from Guatemala and Honduras regarding their conditions of confinement.

Beginning this September for the fall 2019 admissions cycle, those seeking admission to the JD program at American University Washington College of Law (AUWCL) will have the option to submit an LSAT score or the score received on the Graduate Record Exam (GRE).

The Society for International Economic Law (SIEL) 6th Biennial Global Conference, hosted by SIEL and American University Washington College of Law, will take place July 12-14, 2018 in Washington D.C. SIEL, the world’s only global scholarly society in international economic law and one of the largest and most important conferences in the area of international economic law, will be hosted for the first time in the U.S.

American University Washington College of Law congratulates Professor and Dean Emeritus Claudio Grossman, who received the first Marshall T. Meyer award presented by the Latin-American Rabbinical Seminary on June 5, 2018 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The award, named after the founder of the Latin-American Rabbinical Seminary and renowned human rights activist Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer, recognizes persons or organizations that have distinguished themselves in the promotion and protection of human rights.

Upon U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s announcement that he will retire at the end of July, American University Washington College of Law faculty reflected on how Kennedy's resignation may ultimately impact the Supreme Court, and what Brett Kavanaugh's nomination could mean for the SCOTUS.