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On Sunday, Colombia elected a new president, Iván Duque Márquez, a 2004 graduate of American University Washington College of Law’s (AUWCL) LL.M. Program in International Legal Studies (ILSP). Duque’s wife, and now Colombian First Lady Maria Juliana Ruiz, is also graduate of the ILSP with a concentration in international business law in 2006.

American University Washington College of Law’s Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law hosted the annual Program of Advanced Studies on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law May 29-June 15, welcoming 125 participants from over 10 different countries.

American University Washington College of Law is hosting the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization's 38th Assembly of Parties June 13-15, 2018. The Assembly of Parties is ITSO’s most important meeting and it is attended by ministers, ambassadors, and other prominent government officials from its 149 member states.

A presentation and reception was held on the afternoon of June 12 at the headquarters of the Organization of American States in Washington, DC to launch Professor and Dean Emeritus Claudio Grossman’s book International Law and Reparations: The Inter-American System, co-authored by AUWCL alumni Agustina del Campo and Mina A. Trudeau.

American University Washington College of Law and 2U, Inc., a global leader in education technology, announced a partnership to offer Law@American, a new online Master of Legal Studies degree. Law@American will be the first MLS offered by AUWCL and represents a new Domestic Graduate Program for 2U.