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On Monday, August 24, 2015 Dean Claudio Grossman announced to the university administration that this year, his 21st year of service, will be his last as Dean of American University Washington College of Law. Read Dean Grossman's message to Alumni.  

On August 18, 2015 American University Washington College of Law welcomed incoming students with iits annual public day of service – In My Back Yard (IMBY). 

Alumnus Matthew Williams ’06 was recently promoted to partner at his firm, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, where he represents top entertainment and technology clients in domestic and international copyright issues. We spoke with him about his path to success. 

The Stephen S. Weinstein Trial Advocacy Program hosted the annual Litigation Skills Summer Institute, geared towards mastering courtroom skills. The institute offered four litigation courses – Fact Witness Depositions, Expert Witness Depositions, Civil Trial Advocacy, and Litigating in a High Tech Courtroom – and participants personalized their studies by choosing one or more of the courses.

After teaching Legal English at AUWCL earlier this summer, Cathy Schenker, associate director of the International Legal Studies Program, traveled to Beijing, China, to teach the course to students at the Chinese University of Political Science and Law (CUPL), July 20-23. It is the first time the course has been offered outside of AUWCL’s Washington, D.C. campus.