News & Events

On October 17, American University Librarian Nancy Davenport and  Washington College of Law Associate Dean of Library & Information Resources and Professor of Law Billie Jo Kaufman hosted a reception in honor of the new Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, who was sworn into office on September 14, 2016.

The American University Washington College of Law War Crimes Research Office and the Women in International Law Program have been awarded a grant of nearly $500,000 ($496,297 in total) by the U.S. Department of State for their project, “Strengthening Government Ability to Hold Perpetrators Accountable for Conflict-Related Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in the Central African Republic.”  The project builds upon the Gender and International Criminal Law Project, including the Gender Jurisprudence Collections, a free online research tool created by the programs. 

The Legal Writing Institute Board of Directors has announced the establishment of the Teresa Godwin Phelps Award(s) for Scholarship in Legal Communication. The creation of the Phelps Awards – named after Professor Phelps, who directs the Legal Rhetoric Program at American University Washington College of Law – supports LWI's discipline-building priority.  

In the context of the partnership between AUWCL and the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (ITSO), the law school will host ITSO’s 37th Assembly of Parties October 12-14, 2016. The Assembly of Parties is ITSO’s most important meeting and it is attended by ministers, ambassadors, and other prominent government officials from ITSO’s 149 member states.

AUWCL Professor Angela J. Davis participated in a discussion of contemporary issues in African American lives during the Library of Congress National Book Festival. Davis, an expert in criminal law and procedure, discussed the key issues of the Black Lives Matter Movement with Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor of Princeton University’s Department of African American Studies.  The discussion was moderated by Professor Jabari Asim, Director of the Graduate Creative Writing Program at Emerson College.