News & Events

The Center on International Commercial Arbitration is hosting an outstanding series of events this fall, starting with the 12th Annual International Commercial Arbitration Lecture Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017, 5:30 p.m. at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP. The 2017 Annual Lecture will be presented by Pierre Mayer, emeritus professor at the University of Paris I and international arbitrator. The lecture is sponsored by Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP.

Pernell Jackson, currently in his second year at AUWCL, didn’t plan to go to law school.  Following a five-year stint in the armed services, he decided to pursue law enforcement and joined the Prince Georges County police department. “As a police officer I felt I was helping victims pick up the pieces from a crime,” he said. “But I could see that as a prosecutor, I could seek justice on their behalf by focusing on the criminal. That’s when I decided to pursue law.”

AUWCL welcomed Securities and Exchange Commissioner Michael S. Piwowar to the law school early this semester to speak to an enthusiastic group of students. The Sept. 12 event kicked-off the Business Law Program’s line-up of events for the 2017–2018 academic year.

The American University Washington College of Law Program on Law and Government and the ABA Public Education Division are hosting an in-depth discussion of the most high profile cases of the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court term, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017, at 5:30 p.m.  For the first time, the American Bar Association and AUWCL are pairing their annual “Preview” events to bring together an outstanding group of experts in immigration law, civil rights, voting rights, privacy, criminal justice, and more.

American University Washington College of Law congratulates Professor Fernando Laguarda, faculty director of the Program on Law and Government, on his election as the next Board Chair of TPRC, the leading interdisciplinary conference on technology and telecom policy. His one year term began on Sept. 11, 2017.