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• Visiting Professors Offer Specialized Courses in Spring 2010

  American University Washington College of Law welcomes two visiting professors for the 2010 spring semester, both of whom will be presenting specialized courses available to our students. Professor Amichai Cohen, Senior Lecturer at Ono Academic…

• Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Launches Research Project on Human Rights of Older Persons

  The Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law has been invited by the United Nations Population Fund to conduct a comparative analysis of the international and regional human rights of elderly persons. Claudia Martin and…

• Professor Dinerstein to be Honored with Top AALS Clinical Legal Education Award

  Professor Robert Dinerstein, director of Washington College of Law's Clinical Program, will be awarded the William Pincus Award at the Association of American Law Schools Annual Conference in New Orleans, January 2010. The Pincus Award…

• WCL Hosts William H. Karchmer Fall Moot Court Competition

  On Saturday, November 21, the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project will host 80 high school students for its annual William H. Karchmer Fall Moot Court Competition.  Forty-nine Marshall-Brennan Fellows from WCL and Howard Law School have…

• Dean's Diversity Council Holds Annual Program and Dinner

  On Monday, Nov. 23, the Dean's Diversity Council will hold its Annual Program and Dinner.  The opening portion, "Revisiting Scottsboro," begins at 4:15 p.m, and will include an examination of these historical trials from a…