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Professor Marleen Hein-Dunne works with international LL.M. students to help them develop substantial legal reading and comprehension skills. American University Washington College of Law has recently presented Professor Hein-Dunne with the Adjunct Teaching Award for her outstanding teaching and mentoring. We talked to Professor Hein-Dunne about English as a global language, the differences in legal writing cultures, and her students’ success.

The Honorable Bernice Donald, a judge on the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and this year’s Jurist-in-Residence, spent two days at American University Washington College of Law this October meeting with students and sharing her insights on judicial decision-making. Judge Donald, a longtime champion of equal justice, became the first female African-American judge in the history of Tennessee in 1982.

Recently, the City of Chicago made history when it passed the reparations ordinance, the first of its kind legislature to address police brutality in the country. Shubra Ohri ’12 helped push support for this reform.  

This fall, The Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law and the American University Center for Media & Social Impact as part of the 16th Annual Human Rights Film Series will feature four exceptional documentary films that explore a broad spectrum of human rights issues under the thematic umbrella of race and justice in America. 

As the Supreme Court begins its new term this week, law professors Jenny Roberts, Steve Vladeck, and Steve Wermiel, along with Chief Counsel of the Constitutional Accountability Center Elizabeth Wydra got together for the annual panel to preview the cases the court is set to hear in the weeks ahead.