News & Events

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.

This Thursday the Constitutional Court of Colombia will hear oral arguments and expert witness testimonies for its case on marriage equality. The Constitutional Court invited several experts to provide their testimony, including Faculty Director of AUWCL’s Impact Litigation Project Macarena Saez. Saez and Professor Nan Hunter from Georgetown University Law Center are the only two law faculty invited from the United States.

Professor of constitutional law and Director of the Program on Law and Government Jamie Raskin authored an op-ed, where he discusses the politics inside the U.S. Supreme Court as the 2016 presidential race emerges. With several justices already over 80, Raskin analyzes what’s at stake for the new president in terms of potential Court appointees. “Will the new justices bolster the conservatives or the liberals?” he asks. Read the full article here.

AUWCL Practitioner-in-Residence Anita Sinha is featured in this Associated Press story on a lawsuit alleging immigrants were paid $1 a day for janitorial work at a private prison. Sinha, who teaches in our Immigrant Justice Clinic, has researched immigrant labor at private detention centers.