Expanding Opportunities: AUWCL Innovates Online Education and LL.M. Programs

TABLE OF CONTENTS
message from dean grossman: 1
new law campus: 2-3
commencement 2014: 4-5
expanding opportunities: 6
international law: 7
programs: 8-21
faculty: 22-35
events: 36-37
who’s who: 38-39
campus update: 40-44
Claudio M. Grossman
Doctor of the Science
of Law, Licenciado en
Ciencias Jurídicas y
Sociales, Dean
Anthony E.Varona
AB, JD, LL.M., Associate
Dean for Faculty and
Academic Affairs
Mary Clark (2013-2014)
AB, JD, Associate
Dean for Faculty
and Academic Affairs
Lia Epperson (2014)
BA, JD, Associate
Dean for Faculty
and Academic Affairs
Robert D. Dinerstein
AB, JD, Associate Dean for
Experiential Education
Jenny M. Roberts (2014)
BA, JD, Associate Dean
for Scholarship
Stephen I.Vladeck
(2013-2014)
BA, JD Associate Dean
for Scholarship
David B. Jaffe
BA, JD, Associate Dean
for Student Affairs
Billie Jo Kaufman
BS, MS, JD, Associate
Dean of Library and
Information Services
Khalid R.O. Khalid
BA, MA, Assistant
Dean of Finance
and Administration
Rebecca T. Davis
BS, MAT, Assistant
Dean for Academic
Services, Registrar
Akira Shiroma
BA, JD, Assistant
Dean of Admissions
and Financial Aid
Khadijah Al-Amin-El
BA, MBA, Interim Director
of Development and
Alumni Relations
Traci Mundy Jenkins
BA, JD, Assistant
Dean for Career and
Professional Development
David Aaronson
BA, MA, LL.B., LL.M.,
Ph.D., Director of the
Stephen S.Weinstein Trial
Advocacy Program
Michael W. Carroll
AB, JD, Director of the
Program on Information
Justice and Intellectual
Property
David Hunter
BA, JD, Director of the
International Legal
Studies Program
Teresa Godwin Phelps
BA, MA, MSL, Ph.D.,
Director of the Legal
Rhetoric Program
Jamin Raskin
Program on Law and
Government
Ann Shalleck
AB, JD, Director of the
Women and the Law
Program
David Snyder
Business Law Program
ADMINISTRATION

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MESSAGE FROM DEAN GROSSMAN
Dear Alumni and Friends:
I am pleased to share with you the Annual Report of American University
Washington College of Law (AUWCL) for 2013-14, an academic year defined
by our community’s ongoing innovation, development, and commitment to
superb legal education.
As a result of a comprehensive faculty retreat held in spring 2013, I
appointed a new Faculty Committee on Career Development, chaired last
year by Professors Jamin Raskin and Angela Davis, to address the challenging
situation facing legal education.The response of our faculty was extraordinary.The Faculty Committee formed
11“faculty practice groups”to empower students with more subject matter-specific and practice-specific career
information and counseling in areas such as business law, international law, and intellectual property. These
groups, which have nearly 800 student members, supplement the work of the Office of Career and Professional
Development by offering AUWCL students strategic career advice, practice area insights, networking ideas and
connections, and academic planning. This admirable and extraordinary commitment of time, creativity, and
effort to assist our students and develop unique, focused career initiatives is unparalleled in legal education and
a perfect example of our faculty’s dedication to the entire AUWCL community.
Each day, AUWCL students benefit from a superb legal education in a dynamic and creative law school
environment. This creativity was exemplified this year through the more than $3 million in grant awards from
federal and private sponsors that support the rule of law around the world and create many important research
positions for our students. The law school’s new Online Learning Program continues to expand its educational
offerings that are made available to a worldwide audience, anytime, anywhere. An Online Certificate
in International Commercial Arbitration, taught by renowned experts from our Center for International
Commercial Arbitration, was offered for the first time this past spring and our successful Lawyer Re-Entry
and Legal Spanish Programs will be offered online for the first time in the upcoming academic year. I am
also pleased to share that the ABA has recently approved two exciting new LL.M. Programs in Human Rights
and Intellectual Property that will expand upon our law school’s current programs and leadership in these
important areas of the law.
It is with great enthusiasm that I report that construction of our new state-of-the-art law campus is well
underway, as you can see on pages 2-3.There is a tremendous atmosphere of excitement at American University
Washington College of Law as we look forward to moving to the new facility, one block from the Tenleytown
Metro Station, in fall 2015. This location will further connect our law school to the Washington community
and multiply opportunities for our students, faculty, and alumni alike. We hope you will visit our campus in
upcoming years.
Claudio Grossman,
Dean

TENLEY CAMPUS BY THE NUMBERS
VISIT TENLEY2015.WCL.AMERICAN.EDU FOR CONSTRUCTION UPDATES AND
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FUTURE HOME OF AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW. DOORS ARE OPENING IN AUGUST 2015, AND
THE CLASS OF 2016 WILL BE THE FIRST TO GRADUATE FROM THE NEW CAMPUS.
GROUNDBREAKING IN JUNE 2013 NOVEMBER 2013 MARCH 2014

MORE FEATURES
• Buildings will total 312,000 square feet
• Flexible space for active learning
• Cutting-edge, flexible conference facility accommodating high-profile
events large and small
• Alumni Center providing alumni with research and business resources
• Scenic outdoor space with terrace seating and outdoor dining areas
• A future Nebraska Wing green roof (Library 2nd floor roof) of
approximately 7,200 square feet
• 5,400 square foot outdoor courtyard
JUNE 2014
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Classrooms accommodate
over 100 students each
22
Classrooms accommodate
40-100 students each
1
Block from AU-Tenleytown Metro Station
8½ Acres for the law school’s
permanent home
16
Seminar rooms
3
Courtrooms
(the largest being a technologically equipped
60 seat courtroom used for classes and mock
courtroom activities)
8,000 Square feet of space
for the Clinical Program
2½
Floor state-of-the-art library
37,400 Square feet of
teaching space
JULY 2014
t bottom: The Tenley Campus continues to make
progress as construction moves above ground.
When complete, American University Washington
College of Law will be one of the most
technologically advanced schools in the nation,
fully equipped to prepare students to meet the
challenges of the 21st century and beyond.
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COMMENCEMENT 2014
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW WELCOMED
JUDY A. SMITH ’86, FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF SMITH COMPANY,
A LEADING STRATEGIC AND CRISIS COMMUNICATIONS FIRM, AND
CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF ABC’S “SCANDAL,” AS THE SPRING
2014 COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER.

“Character matters,”said Smith, in her address to 464 JD, 184 LL.M., and
seven SJD graduates.“[Character] is how you lead your life. It is the kind
of decisions you make. It is whether you lead a life of integrity. That is
important.Your career is extremely important, but it is not what defines
your success.What defines your success is your character.”
Prior to founding Smith Company, Smith was a partner at several
Washington, D.C.-based public relations firms. Before that, she
served as senior vice president of corporate communications at NBC.
Additionally, she served as NBC’s chief spokesperson for domestic and
international programming and business ventures, and also helped
with the groundbreaking launch of MSNBC. In 1991, Smith joined the
White House with her appointment as special assistant and deputy press
secretary to President George H.W. Bush. During her tenure she provided
the president and his Cabinet with communications advice on a wide
range of foreign and domestic issues.
Smith, who was the first African-American woman to serve as the
executive editor of the American University Law Review, was awarded an
honorary Doctor of Laws by American University President Neil Kerwin.
Student speaker for the ceremony,
Marcus Childress, described
the unique training he and his
classmates received at AUWCL.
“We have all been changed,”said
Childress.“We have been molded,
shaped, and transformed to be
abnormal—abnormal because we
have been taught how to think
creatively about the law, society,
and the world around us.”
“Let us remember that we are not
simply spectators of life,”said Dean
Claudio Grossman.“We have the transformative power that is provided
by a superb legal education and your own commitment, imagination,
and creativity.You have studied at a law school renowned for its unique
ability to imagine and shape a better world. This important value started
with our founding mothers.”
CHARACTER MATTERS, IT IS
HOW YOU LEAD YOUR LIFE. IT
IS THE KIND OF DECISIONS YOU
MAKE. IT IS WHETHER YOU
LEAD A LIFE OF INTEGRITY.
THAT IS IMPORTANT. YOUR
CAREER IS EXTREMELY
IMPORTANT, BUT IT IS NOT
WHAT DEFINES YOUR SUCCESS.
WHAT DEFINES YOUR SUCCESS
IS YOUR CHARACTER.
—JUDY A. SMITH ’86
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American University Washington College
of Law is constantly innovating, developing
new programmatic initiatives and creating
opportunities to address current and emerging
legal issues. In 2013-14, online education and
Master of Laws programs were expanded
significantly.
OFFERING SPECIALIZED
LEGAL TRAINING TO A
WORLDWIDE AUDIENCE
The Online Certificate in International
Commercial Arbitration was successfully
launched this spring, and will be offered
again during the 2014-15 academic year. The
online courses prepare participants with the
foundational knowledge and skills to succeed
in the complex and ever-changing field of
international arbitration.The curriculum
explores a range of topics, including the
legal principles and practical implications of
International Commercial Arbitration and
International Investment Arbitration.
“American University Washington College of
Law has undertaken an exciting endeavor in
online education,”said Claudio Grossman, dean,
American University Washington College of Law.
“Our new online certificate program enhances
our course offerings and expands the law
school’s global connections, allowing individuals
to have access anytime, anywhere to AUWCL’s
superb legal education.”
More online courses are scheduled to begin
this fall. The law school’s successful Lawyer
Re-entry Program will be offered online for
lawyers looking to resume, transition in, or
reinvent their professional lives. Through
pre-recorded lectures, online interactive
sessions, written assignments, and exercises,
participants will reclaim their careers and find
support among a cadre of talented lawyers. The
Legal Spanish Program will also be offered in
the fall. Ideal for lawyers, paralegals, and legal
professionals who conduct business in Spanish,
the program is designed to help participants
improve their knowledge and use of complex
legal terms in client interactions.
“The online chat is an important component
of the program because it creates a community
within the online learning platform to help
participants interact and exchange ideas,”said
Susana Medina-Day, coordinator of the Legal
Spanish Program.
Several new cutting-edge courses are being
developed for fall 2015, including one in
Information and Communications Technology
(ICT) Policy and Regulation.
UNIQUE OPPORTUNITIES
FOR LAWYERS SEEKING
ADVANCED STUDY
The law school is also pleased to announce
new LL.M. programs in Intellectual Property
Law and International Human Rights and
Humanitarian Law, expanding on the law
school’s existing programs in these important
specialties.
The LL.M. Program in International Human
Rights and Humanitarian Law is the only
hybrid program of its kind in a U.S. law
school.With online and residential (in-person)
course components, this program is designed
for practitioners and other human rights
professionals who wish to pursue advanced
studies in international human rights law and
humanitarian law alongside their existing
work responsibilities.
Students enrolled in the LL.M. Program in
Intellectual Property Law will learn from
a large and accomplished IP faculty, while
taking classes in Washington, D.C. and Geneva,
Switzerland – two global centers of IP law and
policymaking.The Program emphasizes the
international and public interest aspects of
the field while providing the best in practical
training in litigation, prosecution, licensing,
and advocacy.
EXPANDING OPPORTUNITIES
THROUGH ADVANCED STUDY
AND ONLINE EDUCATION

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AUWCL CO-HOSTED MEETING
OF UN HUMAN RIGHTS TREATY
BODY CHAIRS
In January, AUWCL, in cooperation with the
American Society of International Law (ASIL)
and the International Bar Association (IBA),
hosted the chairs of the 10 UN Human Rights
Treaty Bodies and representatives from the
Office of the High Commissioner for Human
Rights for special consultations on the ongoing
treaty body strengthening process.This unique
initiative gave the chairs the opportunity to help
positively impact the protection and promotion
of human rights while reaffirming the treaty
bodies’ independence and autonomy. Dean
Claudio Grossman served as chair of the UN
Human Rights Treaty Bodies and has been the
chair of the UN Committee against Torture since
April 2008. Generous support for the event was
provided by Sigrid Rausing Trust.
NEW PROGRAM LAUNCHED ON
INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION
COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
(ICT) POLICY AND REGULATION
In February, AUWCL announced the launch of a
new program on International ICT (Information
Communications Technology) Policy and ICT
Regulation, made possible through a partnership
with the International Telecommunications
Satellite Organization (ITSO).The Program
includes seminars, lectures, targeted trainings,
and internships focused on leading issues and
current developments in the field of international
information communications technology (ICT)
policy and regulation.The Program is being
developed under the leadership of AUWCL
alumna and adjunct professor Dr. Renata
Brazil David, director of legal affairs at ITSO.
The Program is part of AUWCL’s Program on
International Organizations, Law and Diplomacy.
During the 2014-15 academic year, there will
also be a course on International ICT Policy and
Regulation offered to JD and LL.M students.
NEARLY 500 ATTEND ANNUAL
GROTIUS LECTURE TO OPEN ASIL
ANNUAL MEETING, ILA BIENNIAL
CONFERENCE
In April, AUWCL and ASIL welcomed nearly
500 attendees to the 16th Annual Grotius
Lecture to open the 108th ASIL Annual Meeting
and the 76th International Law Association
(ILA) Biennial Conference in Washington, D.C.
This year’s distinguished lecturer was NYU Law
Professor Radhika Coomaraswamy, former U.N.
special rapporteur onViolence Against Women,
and former U.N. under-secretary general and
special representative of the Secretary General
for Children and Armed Conflict. She delivered
her lecture on“Women and Children: The Cutting
Edge of International Law.”Diane Marie Amann,
professor at University of Georgia School of Law
and the International Criminal Court Prosecutor’s
special adviser on Children in Armed Conflict,
served as the event’s distinguished discussant.
ACADEMY ON HUMAN RIGHTS
AND HUMANITARIAN LAW
CELEBRATED 15TH ANNIVERSARY
The Academy on Human Rights and
Humanitarian Law celebrated 15 years of
promoting human rights and humanitarian law
and strengthening links between human rights
organizations, practitioners, and educators
worldwide. Each year the Academy offers the
Program of Advanced Studies on Human Rights
and Humanitarian Law, and in 2014 offered 19
courses taught by world-renowned scholars and
practitioners.The Academy sponsored Human
Rights Month, which offered additional academic
opportunities through conferences, panels, and
films.The Academy also hosted the 19th Annual
Inter-American Moot Court Competition in May,
with a total of 99 participating teams from a
record 27 different countries, involving more
than 300 students, professors, and human rights
professionals.
UNIQUE LEADERSHIP IN
INTERNATIONAL LAW
This year American University Washington College of Law continued to expand our international reach
and contributed to shaping worldwide legal issues through our scholarship, international programs, and
special trainings and opportunities in international law. Read a few highlights from 2013-14 below.
s above top: Dean Claudio
Grossman, Dr. Renata Brazil
David (ITSO), Jose Toscano
(ITSO), and Carlos Portales
announce the International
ICT Policy and ICT Regulation
Program. above bottom:
NYU Law Professor Radhika
Coomaraswamy, Dean Claudio
Grossman, and Georgia School
of Law Professor Diane Marie
Amann at the 16th Annual
Grotius Lecture.
s above: NYU Law Professor
Radhika Coomaraswamy
delivers the 16th Annual
Grotius Lecture.

PROGRAMS
WHAT MAKES AN AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF
LAW EDUCATION A COMPLETE EXPERIENCE ARE THE GROUNDBREAKING
INITIATIVES AND COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAMS. STUDENTS, FACULTY, AND
ALUMNI ENRICH THEIR LEGAL UNDERSTANDING AND BROADEN THEIR
PERSPECTIVES SIMPLY BY PARTICIPATING IN ANY ONE OF THE INNOVATIVE
PROGRAMS AVAILABLE AT THE LAW SCHOOL. HIGHLIGHTS OF THESE
PROGRAMMATIC ACTIVITIES FROM 2013-14 APPEAR IN THIS SECTION.
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE LAW SCHOOL’S PROGRAMS AND
CENTERS IS AVAILABLE AT WCL.AMERICAN.EDU/PROGRAMS.

CLINICAL PROGRAM
This year, the Clinical Program served 229
students in 10 in-house clinics, and sent eight
additional students to the D.C. Law Students
in Court Clinic.The Clinic continued to
cultivate and instill creative, client-centered
lawyering skills and an ethic of service among
clinic students while providing high-quality
representation to a variety of indigent and
under-served clients.
The work of student attorneys
led to many high points
this year. For instance, the
Intellectual Property Law Clinic
filed an amicus brief before the
U.S. Supreme Court in American
Broadcasting Companies, Inc.
v. Aereo, Inc. Students from the
International Human Rights
Law Clinic testified before the
Inter-American Commission on
Human Rights on refugees’ access to information
for preparing asylum claims. And, students in the
Disability Rights Law Clinic, working in concert
with other D.C.-based organizations, submitted
proposed legislative language to the D.C. City
Council to provide a time limit for guardianships
and introduce the concept of supported
decision making.
The Clinic continued to enhance its reputation
in national and international settings through
faculty scholarship, case results, and partnerships
with prominent organizations in the legal services
and human rights fields.This year, Clinic faculty
also formed internal committees to help increase
student and alumni employment and to raise the
Clinic’s public profile.
LEGAL RHETORIC PROGRAM
The Legal Rhetoric Program is directed by
Professor Teresa Godwin Phelps, who is regarded
as a pioneer in the teaching of legal writing.
She has brought over 25 years of experience in
developing legal writing theory and pedagogy to
create a legal writing and research program that
is among the nation’s best.
This year, Legal Rhetoric faculty collaborated
outside of the department to maintain a culture
of excellence in legal writing at the law school.
The Program held writing sample workshops
with the Office of Career and Professional
Development (OCPD), coached and evaluated
moot court teams, presented during the Lawyer
Re-Entry and Legal Analysis Programs,
coordinated pedagogical approaches with library
faculty, and began working with Moot Court
Honor Society to improve competition briefs.
Faculty also contributed to a variety of AUWCL
activities by leading presentations at several
Doctrinal Commons sessions; participating in
numerous panel events, the EJF Auction, and
the Law Revue; and chairing an Integrated
Curriculum section.
The program faculty increased international
visibility by presenting at an Applied Storytelling
Conference in London and contributing to
international journals and in internationally-
focused symposia.The program faculty also
continued its national and regional visibility by
publishing in national legal writing journals and
in the Journal of Legal Education; presenting at
national conferences; serving on the Association
of Legal Writing Directors Board and the
editorial board of Legal Communication
Rhetoric; giving the keynote address at a national
s above: An Immigrant Justice
Clinic client provided testimony
at a congressional briefing on
proposed legislation concerning
U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) holding
facilities.
t bottom: International Human
Rights Law Clinic students
Jaqueline Zamarripa and Diana
Navas presented before the
Inter-American Court of Human
Rights in Mexico City on the
topic of unaccompanied migrant
youth detained in the U.S.
• Civil Advocacy Clinic
• Community and Economic Development
Law Clinic
• Criminal Justice Clinic
• D.C. Law Students in Court
• Disability Rights Law Clinic
• DomesticViolence Clinic
• Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property
Law Clinic
• Immigrant Justice Clinic
• International Human Rights Law Clinic
• Janet R. Spragens Federal Tax Clinic
• Women and the Law Clinic
AUWCL CLINICAL PROGRAMS
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Learn more about students’ experiences in the Clinical Program.Watch our video at wcl.american.edu/clinical.

conference; publishing in the Virginia Bar
Journal and Human Rights Quarterly; serving on
Virginia State Bar Task Force on Legal Writing;
and continuing to lead the ABA Media Alert
Project for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
D.C. Circuit.
STEPHEN S. WEINSTEIN TRIAL
ADVOCACY PROGRAM
The Stephen S.Weinstein Trial Advocacy
Program, administered by Professors David E.
Aaronson, director; Elizabeth I. Boals, associate
director; and Elizabeth L. Lippy, assistant
director, continued to experience remarkable
growth during the 2013-14 academic year.
The Program offered a record 17 specialized
trial advocacy courses in 39 small sections to
more than 475 students, while adding new
courses in Fact Witness Deposition and Expert
Witness Depositions, as well as a redesigned Plea
Bargaining course.The Program offered its first
Litigation Skills Summer Institute (LSSI) in
July 2013 featuring four intensive experiential
courses focused on depositions, trial skills, and
technology in the courtroom.The LSSI will be
offered annually and is available to law students
and practitioners.
The Advocacy LL.M., which now features
graduate fellowships and Criminal and Civil Trial
Advocacy Certificate opportunities, continued to
grow with five 2014 graduates and eight students
currently enrolled.
A Mock Trial Honor Society (MTHS) Training
Workshop and Intra-Society Mock Trial
Competition was initiated in August 2013 to
give MTHS members a jumpstart on their trial
skills development and to evaluate students
for competition selection.This year, the MTHS
fielded teams for 16 competitions across
the nation. Among other achievements, two
AUWCL teams advanced to the final rounds at
the regional tournament for the National Trial
Competition with one emerging as the Regional
Champion representing AUWCL in the national
competition in Austin,Texas.
Finally, the Program hosted the Sixth Annual
Capitol City Challenge Mock Trial Competition
in spring 2014. Competitors from 20 law schools
nationwide competed in six full-trial rounds held
at AUWCL and D.C. Superior Court and were
evaluated by 120 experienced judges
and attorneys.
INTERNATIONAL LEGAL STUDIES
PROGRAM
The International Legal Studies Program
(ILSP) is one of the most intellectually and
culturally diverse LL.M. programs in the nation.
The program incorporates a rich array of
international law courses, experiential learning,
and special events that allow students to network
with leading faculty, practitioners, diplomats,
business leaders, and policymakers. ILSP’s
fall 2013 total enrollment was 168 lawyers,
exchange students, fellows and scholars from
61 countries speaking 39 languages.This included
12 Humphrey fellows and 32 international
visiting scholars hosted throughout the year.
This year, to help students who plan to take
the NY Bar Exam, ILSP has added U.S.
Criminal Law and U.S. Constitutional Law
to the curriculum and organized information
sessions about the NewYork Bar Exam and the
new pro bono requirement. ILSP introduced a
successful volunteer service day in partnership
with the Capital Area Food Bank to introduce
LL.M. students to the U.S. service culture by
experiencing it on a local level.
ILSP sponsored the 16th Annual Grotius Lecture,
which opened the 108th ASIL Annual Meeting
and the 76th International Law Association (ILA)
Biennial Conference, with distinguished lecturer,
NYU Professor Radhika Coomaraswamy.
ILSP, in cooperation with the Office of Career
and Professional Development, supported the
International Law Faculty Practice Group by
coordinating the International Practice Group
Career Counseling Event and organizing events
with the Program on International Organizations
and Office of Global Opportunities. ILSP
supported the AUWCL Development Office in
s above: Eleven legal scholars
and professionals from around
the world participated in
the Hubert H. Humphrey
Fellowship Program.
t below top: Students Corey
Peterson and Kyle O’Grady
won the final round of the
2014 National Trial Competition
Regional Tournament,
co-hosted by AUWCL.
below bottom: At the Annual
Embassy Reception hosted by
ILSP, international students
networked with ambassadors
and staff from local embassies,
alumni, local law firms, and
faculty and staff.

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creating an International Leadership Council
of LL.M. alumni who have donated generously
to the Capital Campaign and agreed to help our
continued outreach to ILSP alumni.
AUWCL’s first semester-long Legal Spanish
Program was held this spring with 17
participants.The 12-week program focused on
cross-cultural communication, U.S. criminal law,
and U.S. immigration law. The in-person Legal
Spanish Program will be taught again in the fall
and an online edition is being planned.
BUSINESS LAW PROGRAM
The Business Law Program continues to give
students, faculty, and alumni countless curricular
and extracurricular opportunities to pursue
interests in business law.The Program offers more
than 150 courses in or related to law and business
and supports programming in the field.
This year, the Program initiated the Faculty
Practice Group in Business Law, which sponsored
resume reviews, encouraged faculty-student
mentoring relationships, helped expand and
develop alumni contacts, and implemented
immediate student email capability for
opportunities that led to interviews and jobs.
As part of this initiative, the program also
reoriented student and Founders’ Celebration
programming to emphasize jobs, featuring events
such as“How to ChooseYour Courses—With
Jobs in Mind.”Program faculty also revamped
the business law curriculum in hot topic areas,
including new, revised, or rationalized courses in
banking law and consumer financial regulation.
The AU Business Law Review is now in its third
volume and is publishing regularly, and other
student organizations continue to flourish.They
run the gamut from the general Business Law
Society to the more specialized International
Trade and Investment Law Society as well as
the new and rapidly growing Transactional
Law Society.The Business Law Review
devoted its annual symposium to“Corporate
Counterterrorism: The Role of Private Companies
in National Security.”
SUPERVISED EXTERNSHIP
PROGRAM
In recent years, the Supervised Externship
Program has seen unparalleled growth as
more than 450 students work annually in field
placements throughout Washington, D.C., across
the country, and overseas.The Externship
Program provides students with the opportunity
to earn academic credit for unpaid substantive
legal work performed under the supervision of
experienced attorneys with government agencies,
federal and state courts, some of the nation’s
most prestigious not-for-profit organizations,
and law firms engaged in public interest work.
Every year, students take advantage of these
experiential opportunities to develop their legal
skills, build professional networks, and explore
career options.
To assist students with identifying and obtaining
externships in their area of study, the Externship
Program initiated career-counseling sessions
in which faculty, staff, and alumni in specific
practice areas reviewed students’ resumes and
offered individual guidance.The Program also
organized field placements by legal specialty
so students could access this information more
easily.These placements were instrumental in
forming a series of subject-specific mini-fairs
targeting second- and third- year law students.
The smaller fairs supplemented the annual
Externship Fair, which attracted more than 130
organizations and 500 students.The Fair allowed
students to learn about upcoming externship
opportunities; network with other students,
professionals, and alumni; participate in informal
interviews with organizations; and apply to a
variety of summer, fall, and spring externship
opportunities in Washington, D.C. Many students
were able to secure internships and externships
at this event.
Externs also benefited from externship seminars
offered at the law school, which allowed them
to share their experiences with other students,
reflect on their work in the context of the legal
profession, cultivate their professional identify,
and develop important lawyering skills.
s above top: As part of ILSP’s
International Week, students
took part in an International
Speed Networking event,
sponsored by the Office of
Career and Professional
Development. above bottom:
Representatives greet students
at the annual Externship Fair.

PROGRAM ON INFORMATION
JUSTICE AND INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY
The Program on Information Justice and
Intellectual Property (PIJIP) – a leading
intellectual property and information law
research program – coordinates the intellectual
property and information academic program
at AUWCL.The Program coordinates the
curriculum and advising for students seeking
a JD, one of two LL.M. programs with
concentrations in intellectual property law
and policy, as well as those concentrating in
intellectual property studies in pursuit of an SJD.
PIJIP also operates a unique summer session with
a focus on international intellectual property law
with courses offered in Washington, D.C., and
Geneva, Switzerland.
This year, PIJIP increased its efforts to help
students specializing in intellectual property by
hosting career coaching events, including a spring
IP firm roundtable, IP externship fair, resume
advising sessions with AUWCL alumni working
in IP, and a networking luncheon with Google
attorneys.
The Program held 22 public events during the
academic year where leading academics and
policymakers discussed current developments in
domestic and international IP law.These included
eight Supreme Court Series seminars, two works-
in-progress workshops on trademark scholarship
and patent scholarship, and the first annual
Patent+Policy Forum on“Current Proposals to
Amend U.S. Patent Law.”
PIJIP also launched the U.S. volunteer affiliate
of the Creative Commons Affiliate Network.
These affiliates are comprised of volunteer
organizations based in many countries that
support and promote Creative Commons
activities in their area.Teams focus on public
outreach, community building, and research,
as well as promoting and sharing the Creative
Commons mission. us.creativecommons.org/about
PROGRAM ON INTERNATIONAL
AND COMPARATIVE
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
The Program on International and Comparative
Environmental Law (PICEL) exposes students to
domestic and international environmental issues
and provides research, networking, and advocacy
opportunities.
Throughout the year, the program placed 15
students in internships with government agencies
and NGOs through the Environmental Advocacy
Externship Seminar. Program faculty assisted
the Environment, Energy and Natural Resources,
Oil and Gas, Land Use, and Construction Law
Faculty Practice Group in its activities, including
a career advice and resume review session and a
networking reception in March.Twelve adjuncts
and alumni joined faculty and staff to meet
individually with 29 students. PICEL also held
a networking event for alumni, adjuncts, and
current students in October. In addition, students
had the opportunity to participate in the World
Bank annual and spring meetings.
PICEL hosted the ninth annual Summer Session
on Environmental Law with participants from
27 countries.The session included a new course
on Development Finance and the Environment
as well as the third annual Seminar on Trade
and Environment in conjunction with the
Organization of American States Department
of Sustainable Development.The Program
also organized five conferences that included
talks on the future of climate change litigation;
environmental peacebuilding in the Middle East;
practicing environmental law at General Electric
in China; the relationship between pillage, armed
conflict, and natural resource extraction; and
upcoming climate change negotiations in Peru.
PICEL faculty also coached two moot court teams
that participated in the Stetson International
Environmental Moot Court Competition and the
Pace National Environmental Law Moot Court
Competition.The Pace National team reached the
quarterfinal rounds and brought home the title of
Best Brief.
s above: Students Eric Gleysteen
and Liz Dukette won the
2013 National IP LawMeet
Competition, held virtually
in November.
s above top: The Third Annual
Mid-Atlantic SJD Roundtable
was held at AUWCL in December.
t below top: Professor David
Hunter with GermanVera, advisor
to the Commission of Foreign
Affairs of Peru for the 20th
Conference of the Parties for the
UN Framework Convention on
Climate Change.
left: Susan Johnson ’14, Professor Amanda Leiter, and
Rose Monahan ‘15 pose with awards won at the Pace
National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition.
The AUWCL team, coached by Leiter, advanced to the
quarter-finals and won Best Brief – Respondent.

SJD PROGRAM
The SJD Program is a vibrant center of
intellectual life at AUWCL.With approximately
20 active SJD candidates from around the world,
the SJD Program is designed for aspiring legal
academics and other top legal professionals
to pursue sustained independent research and
writing in a given field of legal specialization.
The incoming SJD class for 2013-14 included five
scholars from South Korea,Taiwan, Spain, Brazil,
and Saudi Arabia. At the end of the academic
year, the new scholars publicly presented their
research findings to the AUWCL community.
This year, three SJD Candidates were sponsored
by outside organizations – CONACYT, Sergio
Arboleda University, and the Saudi Arabia
Cultural Mission.
In December, the Third Annual Mid-Atlantic
SJD Roundtable was held at AUWCL.The event
provided more than 30 current SJD candidates
from six law schools with the opportunity to
informally present excerpts from their works-
in-progress with their colleagues from the
Mid-Atlantic region. Participating universities
included American University Washington
College of Law, the Beasley School of Law
(Temple University), Columbia Law School,
Georgetown University Law Center, University
of Pennsylvania Law School, and University of
Virginia School of Law.
PROGRAM ON LAW
GOVERNMENT
The Program on Law Government provides
opportunities for lawyers and law students to
study the law of government while interacting
with leading practitioners and scholars in
public law fields.The Program is home to
the LL.M. in Law and Government, the SJD
Program, the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional
Literacy Project, the Summer Institute on Law
and Government, and the Jurist-in-Residence
Program.
The LL.M. in Law Government offers students
an opportunity to pursue graduate legal work on
U.S. public law.The LL.M. Program welcomed
48 incoming students in 2013-14, growing to
81 students total, drawn from 21 countries, 16
states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
In October, the LL.M. in Law Government
marked its 15th anniversary at an event featuring
keynote speaker Justice Allen H. Loughry (LL.M.
’99, SJD ’03) of the WestVirginia Supreme Court
of Appeals.
The Program organized over 30 events including
scholarly conferences, trips to government
agencies, and networking events for JD, LL.M.,
and SJD students. Panels focused on topics
ranging from healthcare.gov to racial profiling
and the current U.S. Supreme Court term.The
Program also collaborated with the Public Law
and Government, Civil Rights and Liberties,
Disability Law, and Education Law Faculty
Practice Group to sponsor a fall resume review
session, which attracted more than 60 JD and
LL.M. students and included 30 reviewers who
were full-time and adjunct faculty and alumni.
This year, the Marshall-Brennan Project sent 43
law students to teach in 13 high schools in D.C.
and Prince George’s County, thanks to generous
support from the Morris and Gwendolyn
Cafritz Foundation and the Bernstein Family
Foundation-D.C.The Project hosted two national
events: a conference entitled“From Constitutional
Literacy to Political Action: Marshall-Brennan
Alumni Schooling America,”and the sixth annual
National Marshall-Brennan High School Moot
Court Competition.
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THE PROGRAM HAD SEVEN
GRADUATES IN 2013-14:
• Christy Tang (Hong Kong)
Faculty Advisor: Padideh Ala’i
• Morad Elsana (Palestine)
Faculty Advisor: Ezra Rosser
• Sana Onayeva (Kazakhstan)
Faculty Advisor: Jerome Levinson
• Jungwon Hur (South Korea)
Faculty Advisor: Heather Hughes
• Luna Barakat (Israel)
Faculty Advisor: Perry Wallace
• Juan Antonio Gaviria (Columbia)
Faculty Advisor: David Snyder
• Eduardo Lycurgo Leite (Brazil)
Faculty Advisor: Peter Jaszi
s above top: The Office of
Development and Alumni
Relations and Dean Claudio
Grossman hosted December
graduates for a celebration
at the law school.
above bottom: Program on
Law and Government Director
Jamin Raskin presented
Representative Donna Edwards
with the 2013 Award for
Excellence in Public Service.
s above: AUWCL welcomed five
new scholars from around the
world to the SJD Program.

HEALTH LAW AND
JUSTICE PROGRAM
The Health Law and Justice Program (HLJP),
launched in 2011, is led by Faculty Director
Lindsay Wiley and Associate Director Matthew
Pierce. HLJP conducts multidisciplinary research
emphasizing the role of law in promoting access
to health care and healthy living conditions.
The Program also oversees the law school’s
rich health law curriculum; sponsors events on
current developments in health law; and supports
opportunities for students to expand their
health law experience through participation in
student organizations, health law competitions,
internships, and externships. HLJP also hosts the
Summer Health Law and Policy Institute, which
offers students and practitioners a selection of
cutting-edge health law courses.
This year, HLJP forged new partnerships,
including one with the D.C. Department of
Health, which pledged to support proposed
research on state laws governing pharmacist-
provided immunizations.The Program also
received additional funding for research on state
prescription monitoring programs.This project
provided research experience and funding for
several students, and the proposed research on
pharmacist-provided immunizations includes
funding for student researchers.
HLJP helped create and expand the Health/
Food and Drug/Life Sciences Law Faculty
Practice Group to provide a repository of career
information for students interested in these fields.
The practice group coordinated career advising
sessions with faculty and OCPD and held fall and
spring networking sessions with students and
alumni.The group also promoted the visibility of
the law school among health law professionals
by hosting conferences and panel discussions on
recent transformational developments in health
law, including the implementation of health
reform and the rollout of health exchanges, the
global health implications of USAID v. AOSI,
and efforts to promote digital health
and telemedicine.
PROJECT ON ADDRESSING
PRISON RAPE
The Project on Addressing Prison Rape, under the
direction of Professor BrendaV. Smith, continues
to address the impact, causes, and critical
consequences of sexual violence in custody. Since
2000, the Project has aimed to address sexual
victimization of adults and youth in custody
by: (1) identifying and analyzing the problem of
prison rape; (2) training; (3) development and
refinement of agency policy and state law; and
(4) enforcement of law and policy.
This year, the Project received $325,000 and a
$1.4 million dollar award from the National
PREA Resource Center funded by the Bureau of
Justice Assistance (FY 2012-2015). As part of its
ongoing efforts, the Project developed three sets
of FAQs for the PREA Resource Center website,
hosted online learning communities for current
TTA subject areas, and provided coaching to 10
BJA Demonstration Grant Sites.
The Project also developed materials for the field
of corrections including formal training curricula
in PREA 101, Gender Responsive Strategies for
adults and juveniles, and Human Resources. An
update to the inmate handbook End Silence was
completed, as were three graphic novels for adult
inmates addressing sexual abuse and PREA.
Finally, the Project hosted four regional
workshop/training events for more than 200
people representing over 35 different correctional
agencies; hosted 12 web-chat/webinars on topics
such as gender responsive strategies and LGBT
issues in adult and juvenile agencies for more
than 3,500 people from the corrections, advocacy,
and legal communities; and delivered over 15
training or technical assistance programs for
prisons, jails, and juvenile facilities.
Project staff were consulted by major media
outlets like Pro Publica, The NewYork Times,
The Washington Post, The NewYorker, NPR,
and the Associated Press.
t below top: Teams registered
from over 28 countries compete
in the Inter-American Human
Rights Moot Court Competition.
below bottom: Students from the
University of West Indies, Cave
Hill Campus celebrate their
victory at the competition.

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ACADEMY ON HUMAN RIGHTS
AND HUMANITARIAN LAW
The Academy was created to promote human
rights and humanitarian law as well as to
strengthen links between human rights
organizations, practitioners, and educators
worldwide and to address the need for a
specialized, scholarly legal approach to human
rights law.
As part of Human Rights Month, the Academy
hosted 11 panels, which ran concurrently with
the 2013 Program of Advanced Studies in Human
Rights and Humanitarian Law.Three of these
panels were co-sponsored by ASIL. Additionally,
the Academy hosted a live webcast panel in
the fall 2013 semester, which reflected on the
situation in the Dominican Republic, as well as
a meeting sponsored by UNICEF and UNFPA
relating to human rights in Latin America and
the Caribbean.
The 2014 Summer Program offered 19 courses
in English and Spanish taught by more than
40 world-renowned human rights professionals
while celebrating its 15-year anniversary.The
program welcomed six new faculty members:
Malcolm Langford, John Cerone, FransViljoen,
Israel Doron, Siobhan McInerney-Lankford, and
Felipe Gomez Isa. Also in 2014, the Academy will
host the 19th Annual Inter-American Human
Rights Moot Court Competition. Over 100 teams
registered from 28 countries, along with more
than 180 judges and 80 observers.
The Academy’s staff has established new
initiatives toward promoting human rights law,
including the development of a new Master
of Laws in International Human Rights and
Humanitarian Law, which recently received
ABA acquiescence, to begin spring 2015.The
Academy also held resume review and advising
sessions where staff and students networked with
professionals in the field and gained summer
and fall internships. In addition, Co-Directors
Claudia Martin and Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón
co-authored two volumes of a book with the
Office of the Ministerio Público Fiscal de la
Ciudad de Buenos Aires.
CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND
HUMANITARIAN LAW
The Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian
Law explores emerging intersections in the
law and creates new tools and strategies for
the advancement of international human
rights norms. In addition to ongoing work with
students, including skills-development seminars,
lunchtime-learning sessions, conferences, and
workshops, the Center runs grant-funded
projects to shape the global conversation
around key issues.
In 2013-14, the Center continued intensive work
with two partner law schools in Cali, Colombia
to enhance the teaching and learning of human
rights, and expanded the Speak Truth to Power
Human Rights Teaching Fellows Program to
include both middle schools and high schools,
in collaboration with the RFK Center for Justice
and Human Rights.
Collaborating with AU’s main campus, the Center
launched a full week of activities co-sponsored
by all AU Deans and the Kay Spiritual Life
Center, called Human Rights Across AU; created
Human Rights andYou (and Donuts!), a weekly
community building/networking event; and held
the 14th Annual Human Rights Film Series.
The Human Rights Brief reorganized hrbrief.org
to expand its impact as a premier online resource
for human rights news, analysis, and resources.
Nearly real-time coverage of public hearings
of the Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights continued in English and Spanish with
over 2,000 unique visitors in less than four days
for each session.The Center also held 13 human
rights training webinars for legal aid attorneys,
which are now posted on the Center’s website,
and conducted an interactive global webinar
series on human rights and private military
and security contractors.
To expand opportunities for jobs and alumni
connections,The Center held a Lunch with
Practitioners Series for students to meet and
hear career advice from noted human rights
practitioners and coordinated with 12 AUWCL
offices to create a map of nearly 700 alumni
working in the field.
s above top: Speakers from the
Academy’s“International Court
of Justice and the Protection of
Human Rights: Recent Judgments
and Its Impact”panel.
t below top: Diego Rodríguez-
Pinzón, co-director of the
Academy, welcomes over
100 teams to the 19th Annual
Inter-American Human Rights
Moot Court Competition.

UNITED NATIONS COMMITTEE
AGAINST TORTURE PROJECT
The law school’s diverse array of experiential
education opportunities includes the one-of-a-
kind United Nations Committee against Torture
(UN CAT) Project.The Project, established in
2004 following Dean Claudio Grossman’s election
to the Committee, includes a specialized seminar
on the prohibition of torture under international
law and a unique field component: experiencing
the UN CAT’s official proceedings in Geneva,
Switzerland.
Since 2009, with the support of the Kovler
Foundation, the UN CAT Project has accepted
10 students, up from the original figure of six.
Participants conduct extensive research, writing,
and analysis under the supervision of Dean
Grossman and Project Coordinator Jennifer de
Laurentiis, on the prevention and prohibition
of torture in countries around the world. This
unique experiential learning opportunity allows
students to acquire firsthand insight into the
work of the UN and human rights advocates
while providing input into the very issues before
the Committee, enabling these future attorneys
to lend their voices to vital work.
The Project also organizes presentations by
and meetings with human rights practitioners,
government officials, NGOs, numerous AUWCL
alumni, Committee and secretariat members, etc.,
providing students with additional educational
experiences and key access and networking/job
opportunities. This year, the Project organized
two events, including a two-day consultation
of the 10 chairs of the UN human rights treaty
bodies.The consultation resulted in the adoption
of a statement by the chairpersons that positively
impacted the intergovernmental process on treaty
body strengthening.The event was co-sponsored
with the American Society of International Law
and the International Bar Association, with
support from The Sigrid Rausing Trust.
UNROW CLINIC
UNROW’s story began in 2000 when five Texas
trial lawyers—Walter Umphrey, Harold Nix,
Wayne Reaud, John O’Quinn, and John Eddie
Williams (UNROW)—made gifts totaling
$2 million to American University Washington
College of Law. Over the past 14 years, that gift
has supported student involvement in human
rights litigation through participation in the
UNROW Human Rights Impact Litigation Clinic.
Students in the UNROW Clinic gain invaluable
practical experience.This year, students
wrote complaints in two very different cases,
communicated with opposing counsel, researched
and filed discovery requests, responded to
motions, and began preparing their own motions
for summary judgment.Work in the UNROW
Clinic provides students with practical lawyering
skills that truly set them apart.
The UNROW Clinic traveled to Costa Rica this
year to observe a trial before the Inter-American
Court on Human Rights.The group, consisting
of law students Marie Soueid, Sydney Pomykata,
and Michaela Spero, and Clinic Director Ali
Beydoun, joined Dean Claudio Grossman and
Professor Juan Mendez as they presented the case
Brewer Carías v.Venezuela.The UNROW Clinic
provided research support to Grossman, Mendez,
and the other attorneys for the case and the
students authored three articles on the case for
the Human Rights Brief special coverage section.
Additionally, UNROW has concentrated its
efforts on two cases in active litigation in the U.S.
District Court for the District of Columbia. Clinic
members traveled to Madrid, London, and New
York City to meet with clients, attend hearings,
and connect with other human rights advocates.
UNROW continued its advocacy efforts in the
field of solitary confinement with clinic member
Jacob Zoghlin publishing a piece on youth in
solitary confinement in the Human Rights Brief.
s above: UNROW Clinic students
joined Dean Claudio Grossman
and Professor Juan Mendez in
Costa Rica as they presented the
case Brewer Carías v.Venezuela
before the Inter-American Court
on Human Rights.
s above: Students and faculty join
Dean Grossman, chair of the
UN Committee against Torture
(UN CAT), for the Committee’s
51st Session in Geneva as part
of the UN CAT Project.

IMPACT LITIGATION PROJECT
The Impact Litigation Project (ILP) seeks to
strengthen democracy in the Americas through
the litigation of pivotal cases on freedom of
expression, access to justice, and due process
before the Inter-American Human Rights System.
The Project was founded in 2006, and since
then, has worked with more than a dozen other
universities throughout Latin America and
Europe.
This year, ILP received a grant from the Open
Society Foundation to offer training on the Inter-
American System of Human Rights for activists
and government officers. More than 50 people
attended the two trainings at the Inter-American
Commission of Human Rights in June and
October 2013. ILP, along with theVance Center
of the NewYork City Bar Association, organized
a meeting on strategic litigation in international
human rights that was attended by participants
from 10 Latin American countries, including
law professors, activists, and private attorneys
interested in pro bono work.
The Project continued to build a docket of cases
with students preparing legal research and
memos on comparative law and international
standards, submitting amicus briefs before the
Inter-American Human Rights System and
constitutional courts in Latin America, and
drafting petitions before the Inter-American
Commission of Human Rights.
Additionally, the ILP Seminar on Strategic
Litigation in International Human Rights was
offered to 10 JD students and 11 LL.M. students.
This experiential learning seminar allows
students to work on cases before the Inter-
American Human Rights System and support
human rights litigation throughout
Latin America.
LAWYER RE-ENTRY PROGRAM
The Lawyer Re-entry Program is designed for
lawyers looking to resume, transition in, or
reinvent their professional lives. It is especially
suited for lawyers whose careers might not have
followed the traditional linear model.
Led by Linda Mercurio, Esq., a professional
development trainer and coach, and American
University Washington College of Law faculty
and career experts, the Lawyer Re-entry Program
offers sessions on reclaiming professional identity,
job search strategies and tools, as well as legal
research, writing, and technology.
This special program – one of only two law
school-based programs in the country – is now
being offered online, providing participants with
flexibility and convenience and allowing them to
reinvent their careers while also managing other
competing interests, such as family commitments
and current employment.
More than 150 attorneys with degrees from a
wide range of law schools have participated in
the program since its inception in 2008.
Upon completion of the course, participants
receive access to Westlaw and Lexis for a period
of time and benefit from one-on-one coaching
to sustain re-entry or re-invention efforts.
Participants also receive a certificate and are
eligible to receive continuing legal education
credits.
PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW
AND POLICY PROGRAM
The Public International Law and Policy
Program, a highly selective experiential education
opportunity at AUWCL, provides students and
alumni with an opportunity to work as research
associates with the Public International Law
and Policy Group (PILPG), a global pro bono law
firm. In 2013-14, approximately 45 select students
(JD/MA, JD, LL.M., and MA) participated in
providing pro bono legal assistance to over a
dozen parties involved in peace negotiations,
post-conflict constitution drafting, and
transitional justice planning.These students
also benefit by utilizing PILPG’s unsurpassed
professional network of public international
lawyers, consisting of over 750 alumni and other
working professionals.
As part of the program, teams of students
working in cooperation with alumni advised
• The Syrian opposition during the Geneva peace
negotiations,
• Civil society organizations on constitutional
reform initiatives in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
• Civil society organizations with constitutional
reform in Egypt,
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• The Libyan government on transitional justice
and constitutional development,
• South Sudan on preparations for a new
constitution,
• Syrian opposition members, local officials,
and NGOs on transitional justice mechanisms
and the development of a hybrid war crimes
tribunal,
• TheYemeni government on the preparation of
a new constitution, and the conclusion of their
National Dialogue,
• TheYemeni government and civil society
groups on decentralization and transitional
justice, and
• Kenyan civil society organizations on
the establishment of transitional justice
mechanisms to deal with electoral violence.
Students also provided legal assistance with
ceasefire negotiations in Burma and offered
strategic litigation to protect citizens’ rights
and access to justice in Kosovo.
WOMEN AND THE LAW PROGRAM
The Women and the Law Program emphasizes
the role of law and legal education in removing
barriers to women’s full participation in society.
AUWCL’s students, and the school’s unparalleled
gender and law curriculum, are at the heart
of the Women and the Law Program’s mission.
In conjunction with the faculty, the Program
provided hands-on assistance for students
seeking jobs in women’s rights, LGBTI advocacy,
and family law via resume review, externship
fairs, and fellowship application mentoring.
The Program also extended learning beyond
the classroom with 20 student events, featuring
alumni speakers and networking opportunities.
The Program launched a new initiative: the
Student Debt and Education Justice Project
(studentdebtjustice.org). Professors Ann Shalleck
and Daniela Kraiem addressed a national
convening of regulators and experts in student
debt, presenting ideas for legal representation of
borrowers and reframing of public responsibility
for funding higher education.
The Program continued its collaboration
with the War Crimes Research Office on
the Gender Jurisprudence Collections
(genderjurisprudence.org), an online database
of cases addressing sexual and gender-based
violence tried in international and hybrid
criminal tribunals.The project received a
$485,000 grant from the U.S. Department of
State’s Office of Global Women’s Initiatives and
funds from OSI to work with local partners to
create legal research tools for advocates, court
staff, and lawyers involved in the prosecution of
the sexual and gender-based crimes that occurred
during the conflict in Bosnia.
At the invitation of the Parliament of Brazil and
the World Health Organization, Daniela Kraiem
delivered training to parliamentarians and public
health officials from Latin America on the use
of human rights instruments in the prevention
of maternal mortality. The Program also
continues its collaboration with Law Students
for Reproductive Justice, serving as the academic
home for the LSRJ Fellowship Program.
WAR CRIMES RESEARCH OFFICE
The War Crimes Research Office (WCRO) was
established in 1995 to promote the development
and enforcement of international criminal and
humanitarian law. Now in its 18th year, the
WCRO has worked toward this goal primarily
by providing specialized legal assistance to
international and internationally-supported
criminal courts and select accountability
mechanisms operating at the national level.
New WCRO initiatives included: 1) a
collaboration with the Open Society Justice
Initiative on a project related to state-based
reparations for serious human rights violations
and 2) the publication of a report entitled
Finding Patterns through Documentation:
Reconstructing the History of Torture and Cruel,
Inhuman and Degrading Treatment of Detainees
in Afghanistan, based on documentation
emerging from the Afghanistan Documentation
Project, established to collect and create a fully
searchable and publicly accessible database
of documents regarding human rights and
humanitarian law violations committed in
Afghanistan since 1978.
WCRO continued to provide support to the War
Crimes Section of the State Court of Bosnia
and Herzegovina by providing legal assistance
and training to legal officers and conducting
roundtable discussions with judges on issues of
international criminal law and procedure.The
s above top: Kari Tapiola, special
advisor to the director-general
of the International Labour
Organization, speaks at AUWCL
about the ILO’s protection of
human rights worldwide.
t below: Participants compete in the
International Arbitration LL.M.
Competition.

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WCRO also continued to make improvements to
its Gender Jurisprudence Collections and, with
the Women and International Law Program,
received a $485,000 grant from the
U.S. Department of State.
Through its International Criminal Court (ICC)
Legal Analysis and Education Project, which
aims to produce public analyses of critical
issues raised by decisions of the ICC, the WCRO
published two more comprehensive reports,
bringing the total number of reports in this
series to 18, each disseminated to more than 500
individuals in 110 countries. The reports focused
on issues related to the rights of the accused and
the process of applying to participate as a victim
in proceedings before the ICC.
The WCRO also held the eighth annual Summer
Law Program in The Hague.
CENTER ON INTERNATIONAL
COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION
The Center on International Commercial
Arbitration, dedicated to providing high-
level training on salient issues and current
development in the field of arbitration, is directed
by Horacio A. Grigera Naón, an independent
international arbitrator and former secretary
general of the International Court of Arbitration
of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).
In 2013, more than 65 students and practitioners
from the U.S. and abroad participated in the
International Commercial Arbitration Summer
Program, and more than 100 people attended the
Eighth Annual Lecture presented by Bernard
Hanotiau and the second symposium on Salient
Issues in International Commercial Arbitration.
The Center has also secured a partnership and
scholarships to the 2014 Summer Program with
the Dispute Resolution Center of the Brazil-
Canada Chamber of Commerce. Arnold Porter
will continue sponsoring the Annual Lecture.
The Program’s first session of the new Online
Certificate Program in International Commercial
Arbitration launched January 2014.This is the
law school’s first online certificate program with
additional programs being implemented in the
coming year.
In addition to the International Arbitration
LL.M. Competition, the Center organized
partnerships with the Externado University
of Colombia and the Dispute Resolution
Center of the Bogota Chamber of Commerce
for the inaugural edition of the International
Investment Arbitration Moot Competition. Nearly
150 students from more than 20 law schools
participated in the competitions and more than
100 practitioners visited the law school to act as
arbitrators and coaches.
As part of their ongoing efforts to support student
opportunities, the Center secured internships
for students with the ICC Court of Arbitration
(Paris), the Hong Kong International Arbitration
Center, Sergio Bermudes Advogados (Rio de
Janeiro), the Mexico Trade and NAFTA Office
(Washington, D.C.), and the Mexican Ministry of
Economy (Mexico City).
PROGRAM ON INTERNATIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS, LAW AND
DIPLOMACY
During the Summer Program on International
Organizations, Law and Diplomacy, the theory
and practice of contemporary international
organizations, law, and diplomacy is taught
through courses and experiential learning
with experts and officials from international
organizations in Washington, D.C. and Geneva,
Switzerland.The Program is open to law
students, graduate students, and practitioners
interested in international organization affairs.
While in D.C., students take courses on subjects
including regional organizations, international
development organizations, and the law of the
war on terror.The Geneva portion of the program
is especially unique: courses are hosted in, or
have significant activities in, the headquarters of
international organizations with the participation
of their officials. Organizations in Geneva include
the World Trade Organization and International
Labor Organization, while the Human Rights
and International Humanitarian Law class visits
and discussions feature the UN Human Rights
Council and the International Committee of the
Red Cross, among others.To support their career
paths, students also take advantage of numerous
networking opportunities and internship
offerings with officials from the organizations.
In addition, the program holds speaker series
events throughout the academic year in D.C.
s above top: A team from AUWCL
competed in the final round
of the ELSA Moot Court
Competition on WTO Law, held
in Geneva, Switzerland.
above middle: His Excellency
Børge Brende, Norwegian
Minister of Foreign Affairs,
speaks at AUWCL on“The
Arctic: Major Opportunities -
Major Responsibilities.”

For 2013-14 these included“The History and
Future of the World Trade Organization”with
WTO officials,“EU-US Transatlantic Trade and
Investment Partnership”with an EU Ambassador,
“The Arctic: Major Opportunities – Major
Responsibilities”with the Norwegian Foreign
Minister,“The Role of Intergovernmental Satellite
Organizations”with the ITSO Director-General,
“Careers in International Organizations”with
a World Bank official, and“The International
Labor Organization and the Promotion and
Protection of Human Rights at Work”with the
Special Advisor to the ILO Director-General.
OFFICE OF THE DEAN,
GLOBAL OPPORTUNITIES
The Office of Global Opportunities creates
international initiatives for students and
faculty to help develop research, educational,
and professional opportunities.The Office also
directs the law school’s unique International
JD Dual Degree Programs, extensive semester
exchange programs, and long-standing Summer
Abroad Programs.The Office organizes faculty
colloquia and finalizes all AUWCL domestic and
international cooperation agreements.
Working toward its goal to be the touchstone for
JD students regarding the globalization of their
legal education, Office of Global Opportunities
staff, in conjunction with OCPD, organized
two student events focused on launching an
international legal career.The Office also
created an external advisory group, conducted
student body surveys, and worked closely with
the AUWCL faculty practice group to enhance
employment and educational opportunities for
students abroad.
The Office enrolled and advised 24 students
in its International JD Dual Degree programs,
which allow law students to earn two law
degrees – a JD from the United States and
either a JD-equivalent or LL.M. degree from
Australia, Canada, France, or Spain.Twelve
of these students graduated this spring and
13 new students will begin the program in the
fall. An additional 25 students participated in
semester exchange programs with six AUWCL
students attending overseas law schools and
19 foreign-trained attorneys studying in our
LL.M. programs.Twelve AUWCL students will
participate in fall semester exchange programs
in Europe, Asia, and South America.
Helping to keep AUWCL at the forefront
of international legal education, the Office
represented the law school and its global
perspective at conferences, colloquia, and events;
finalized 33 agreements with 16 affiliated
entities in nine countries; and hosted the Fourth
Annual International Legal Education Abroad
Conference, achieving its largest attendance
to date.
NEW PROGRAMS:
• International Information and
Communications Technology (ICT) Policy
and ICT Regulation Program
• Semester exchange programs at University
of Essex (England), Universidad de Los
Andes (Colombia), and University of
Stockholm (Sweden)
s above top: Participants in the
summer 2013 Brazil-U.S. Legal
and Judicial Studies Program.
above: The Brazil-U.S. Legal and
Judicial Studies Program hosted
an exclusive screening of“Bacuri’s
Eyes,”a new documentary by
Portuguese director Maria de
Medeiros.

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BRAZIL-U.S. LEGAL AND
JUDICIAL STUDIES PROGRAM
The Brazil-U.S. Legal and Judicial Studies
Program is a comparative law program focused
exclusively on Brazil and the United States, and
their respective legal and judicial institutions.
Led by Senior United States District Judge
Peter J. Messitte, this unique program offers
a direct comparison of Brazilian legal and
judicial institutions with those of the United
States. Participants in the program gain a
firmer understanding of both systems as well
as substantial practical knowledge as the two
countries continue to increase their interaction
with one another.
In addition to a weeklong course for students
and occasional talks by prominent Brazilians, the
Program coordinates seminars on comparative
law topics for Brazilian judges, prosecutors,
lawyers, academics, and students.Topics at
these weeklong seminars have included social
security, alternative dispute resolution, and
criminal justice. More than 30 Brazilian judges,
prosecutors, and court administrators attended
seminars on each of these topics. Recently, Judge
Messitte coordinated a seminar in Boston for
the General Consulate of Brazil that examined
immigration law, criminal law, and contract and
tort laws.
The Program also supports activities that
already exist between AUWCL and Brazil
in international commercial arbitration,
international trade, intellectual property,
environmental law, and human rights.
The Advisory Council to the Program counts
among its members two former Presidents
of Brazil’s Supreme Federal Tribunal, former
Presidents of its Superior Tribunal of Justice,
its Superior Tribunal of Labor, and the Tribunal
of Justice of Rio de Janeiro, as well as former
American Bar Association President Steven Zack.
SUMMER PROGRAMS
PROGRAMS IN D.C.
PROGRAMS ABROAD
Summer programs abroad offer students an opportunity to study law in
some of the most fascinating parts of the world. Courses cover an array of
practice areas, including international criminal law, intellectual property law,
environmental law, international business and trade law, and human rights
law. Site visits offer unparalleled access to the people and organizations
shaping law on a global level.
Each summer, students and practitioners gather from around the country and
the globe for one-to-four week specialized law programs in D.C. and abroad.
They learn from experts in the field, network with peers and policymakers,
and receive intensive training in cutting-edge topics that will give them a
competitive advantage.
Learn more about our summer opportunities at wcl.american.edu/summer.
AUWCL’s intensive D.C. summer programs prove invaluable to students and
practitioners who benefit from instruction from world-renowned experts.
Programs offer rigorous legal training in current hot practice areas, from
anti-corruption to health care compliance and governance. Networking
events and site visits offer participants additional access to top legal
professionals.
• Anti-Corruption Law (U.S. and
International)
• Comparative Law (Brazil and U.S.)
• Health Law and Policy Institute
• Hospitality and Tourism Law
• Human Rights and Humanitarian
Law
• Intellectual Property Law (D.C.
and Geneva)
• International Commercial
Arbitration
• International Organizations, Law
and Diplomacy (D.C. and Geneva)
• Judicial Reform in Latin America
and the United States
• Law and Government
• Legal English
• Litigation Skills
• Chile/Argentina
• Europe - London, Paris, Brussels,
Geneva
• Geneva, Switzerland
• The Hague, Netherlands
• Turkey
right: Environmental Law
Summer Session students on a site
visit to the Department of State.

FACULTY
THE FACULTY AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW ARE
SCHOLARS ON ONE HAND, AND INCREDIBLE TEACHERS ON THE OTHER. THEY
SHARE A LOVE FOR THE LAW, A PASSION FOR TEACHING, AND A BELIEF THAT
THE MORE ACCESSIBLE THEY ARE TO STUDENTS, THE MORE THOSE STUDENTS
WILL GROW. WHEN THEY’RE NOT AT THE LAW SCHOOL, THEY’RE OUT IN D.C.
AND AROUND THE WORLD MAKING CONNECTIONS ON OUR STUDENTS’ BEHALF.
THIS SECTION SHOWCASES OUR FACULTY MEMBERS’ PUBLICATIONS, HONORS,
APPOINTMENTS, AND AWARDS FOR 2013-14.
TO SEE MORE FACULTY ACTIVITIES, INCLUDING SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS AND
MEDIA APPEARANCES, VISIT WCL.AMERICAN.EDU/FACULTYACTIVITIES2014.
PROFESSORS DAVID CHAVKIN AND ROBERT VAUGHN
GIVE 66 YEARS TO AUWCL
With a combined 66 years of dedicated service to AUWCL, the entire law school community celebrates the retirement of Professors
David Chavkin and RobertVaughn. We are proud of their achievements and grateful for their contributions to AUWCL and the
legal community.
David Chavkin joined the law school in
1990 after a long and varied career in
public interest law and government.
While at AUWCL, he specialized in
clinical legal education, health law, and
civil procedure. He has participated as
an accreditation site evaluator for the
ABA and AALS. Chavkin has also served
as treasurer and member ex-officio of the executive committee of
the AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education, chair of the
AALS Section on Litigation, and as a consultant on health care
financing for the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He has written
numerous articles, scholarly journals, and monographs on clinical
legal education, Medicaid, and other health care and policy
issues. Chavkin is the author of Clinical Legal Education: A Text
for Law School Clinics.
During his career at AUWCL, Robert
Vaughn has been scholar-in-residence of
King’s College of the University of
London; a visiting academic at Monash
University in Melbourne, Australia; a
visiting professor at the University of
San Diego School of Law; and a visiting
professor at Ritsumeikan University
School of Law in Kyoto, Japan.While at AUWCL, he received
nine awards for outstanding teaching, including the university’s
highest faculty award for American University’s Teacher/Scholar
of theYear, and four awards for scholarship.Vaughn has taught
and published on a variety of topics regarding public information
law, public employment law, consumer law, and whistleblower
protection. He has consulted with the Treasury and Civil Service
Committee of the House of Commons, the World Bank, and the
Office of Legal Cooperation of the Organization of American
States, and testified before Congress on civil service reform, the
Freedom of Information Act, and whistleblower protection.

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David Aaronson
B.J. Tennery Professor of Law; Director,
Trial Advocacy Program
Publications
2013 Cumulative Supplements,
Maryland Criminal Jury Instructions and
Commentary, Third Edition,TwoVolumes, LexisNexis (2014);
Co-author,“Modernizing Jury Instructions in the Age of Social
Media,” Texas Center for the Judiciary, In Chambers (2014).
Padideh Ala’i
Professor of Law
Publications
“Civil Consequences of Corruption in
International Commercial Contracts: U.S.
National Report,”American Journal of
Comparative Law (2014); Co-editor, Research Handbook on
Transparency, Edward Elgar Publishing (2014); Co-author,
“Transparency in International Economic Relations and the
Role of the WTO,”in Research Handbook on Transparency,
Edward Elgar Publishing (2014); Co-author,“Trade and
Climate Change”in Intellectual Property and Climate Change,
Edward Elgar Publishing (2013); Author,“The Origins of
GATT/WTO”in International Trade Law and the WTO,
Federation Press (2013).
Jonas Anderson
Assistant Professor of Law
Publications
Co-author,“Informal Deference: A
Historical, Empirical, and Normative
Analysis of Patent Claim Construction,”
Northwestern University Law Review, vol. 108 (2014).
Kenneth Anderson
Professor of Law
Publications
Co-author, Chapter 3: The President’s
NDU Speech and the Evolution of
Counterterrorism Policy, The Hoover
Institution Press (2013); “A Proxy Air Force?” The Hoover Digest
of Public Policy, vol. 3 (2013);“Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum:
The Alien Tort Statute’s Jurisdictional Universalism in Retreat,”
Cato Institute (2013); “The Case for Drones,”Commentary
Magazine, vol. 135, no. 6 (2013); Co-author,“Law and Ethics for
Autonomous Weapon Systems,”Stanford University,The Hoover
Institution (2013).
Jonathan Baker
Professor of Law
Publications
“Antitrust Enforcement and Sectoral
Regulation: The Competition Policy
Benefits of Concurrent Enforcement in
the Communications Sector,”Competition Policy International,
vol. 9 (2013).
Susan Bennett
Professor of Law; Director, Community
and Economic Development Clinic
Honors, Appointments, and Awards
Recipient, Egon Guttman Casebook Award
(2014); Appointed, Board of Directors,
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (2013); Fulbright
Senior Specialist Award, Appointed for Exchange with the
Universidad Catolica de Chile (2013).
Susan Carle
Professor of Law
Publications
Defining the Struggle: National Organizing
for Racial Justice, 1880-1915, Oxford
University Press (2013);“Revisiting the
Debate about Conceptions of Agency in Social Movement
Scholarship: Kenneth Mack’s Representing the Race,”Law and
Social Inquiry (2013);“Some Thoughts on Ethical Participation in
the Legal Education Industry,”Akron Law Review (2014); Guest
Blogger, Legal History Blog (December 2013).
Organization of American Historians Liberty Legacy Award:
Best Book on“The Civil Rights Struggle From The Beginnings
of the Nation to the Present”for Defining the Struggle:
National Organizing for Racial Justice, 1880-1915 (2014); Chair,
Association of American Law Schools, Professional Development
Committee (2013-14); Member, Legal Ethics Advisory Committee,
National Disability Rights Network (2013-14); Member,
American Bar Association Center for Professional Responsibility
Diversity Committee (2013-14); Member, Planning Committee,
XXVIIth World Congress of the International Association for
Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR) (2013-14).
Michael W. Carroll
Professor of Law; Director, Program
on Information Justice and Intellectual
Property
Publications
“Pinterest and Copyright’s Safe Harbors
for Internet Providers,”University of Miami Law Review,
vol. 68 (2014).
TENURED AND TENURE-TRACK FACULTY

Janie Chuang
Associate Professor of Law
Publications
“The U.S. Au Pair Program: Labor
Exploitation and the Myth of Cultural
Exchange,”Harvard Journal of Law and
Gender, vol. 36 (2013).
Mary Clark
Professor of Law; Associate Dean,
Faculty and Academic Affairs
Publications
“U.S.Women’s Legal History,”in Teaching
Legal History: Comparative Perspectives,
Wildy, Simmonds Hill (2014);“Book Review: Citizenship and
the Origins of Women’s History in the United States,”Law and
History Review, Cambridge University Press (2014).
Llezlie Green Coleman
Publications
“Procedural Hurdles and Thwarted
Efficiency: Immigration Relief in Wage and
Hour Collective Actions,”Harvard Latino
Law Review, vol. 16, no. 1 (2013).
Jorge Contreras
Publications
“No Matter How Small ... Property,
Autonomy, and State in Horton Hears
a Who!”NewYork Law School Law
Review, vol. 58 (2014);“Compulsory Licensing of Intellectual
Property: AViable Policy Lever for Promoting Access to Critical
Technologies?”in Trips and Developing Countries – Towards
a New IP World Order?, Edward Elgar (2014); Blog,“Industry
Responds to White House Calls for Prior Art, Examiner
Training,”Patently-O, University of Missouri School of Law
(2014);“Comments Submitted to FTC on Patent Assertion
Entities 6(b) Study,” U.S. Federal Trade Commission (2013);
Blog, “The Landscape of Proposed Patent Law Amendments – A
Comparative Look,”Patently-O, University of Missouri School
of Law (2013); Conference Proceedings,“Current Proposals to
Amend U.S. Patent Law,”Patent+Policy Forum 2013, AUWCL’s
Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property
(2013);“Fixing FRAND: A Pseudo-Pool Approach to Standards-
Based Patent Licensing,”American Bar Association Antitrust
Law Journal, vol. 79, no. 1 (2013); Blog,“Samsung Proposes a
Patent Pledge to Settle EC FRAND Investigation,”Patently-O,
University of Missouri School of Law (2013); Blog,“Non-SSO
Patent Commitments and Pledges,”Antitrust Competition
Policy Blog, University of Florida (2013); Co-author,“Intellectual
Property Landscape of Material Sustainability Standards,”
Columbia Science and Technology Law Review, vol. 14 (2013);
“The Topsy-Turvy ITC,”infojustice.org (2013);“Confronting the
Crisis in Scientific Publishing: Latency, Licensing and Access,”
Santa Clara Law Review, vol. 53 (2013); Written testimony,
“Comments Submitted to FTC on Patent Assertion Entities 6(b)
Study,” U.S. Federal Trade Commission (2013); Written testimony,
“Comments on NIH Draft Genomic Data Sharing Policy,”
National Institutes of Health (2013).
“Elizabeth Payne Cubberly Scholar Award,”(2014); Appointed,
Editorial Review Board Member, The Journal of Philosophy,
Science Law, Georgia Tech (2014).
Jennifer Daskal
Publications
“Lethal Targeting of U.S. Citizens: AP
Report Raises More Questions than
Answers,”justsecurity.org (2014);“What the
No Fly List Teaches Us about Bit Data,”justsecurity.org (2014);
“Counterterrorism under the Radar,”justsecurity.org (2014);
“After the AUMF: Iraq and Al Qaeda Redux,”justsecurity.org
(2014);“Pre-Crime Restraints: The Explosion of Targeted,
non-Custodial Prevention,”in Cornell Law Review, vol. 99
(2014); Co-author,“After the AUMF,”Harvard National Security
Law Journal, vol. 5 (2014);“U.S. v. Hamdan: A Death Knell for
Military Commissions,”Journal of International Criminal Law,
vol. 11 (2013);“The Geography of the Battlefield: A Framework
for Detention and Targeting Outside the ‘Hot’ Conflict Zone,”
University of Pennsylvania Law Review, vol. 161 (2013);“NDAA
Redux - Provision on Lethal Targeting,”justsecurity.org (2013);
“Progress on the 2014 NDAA — A GuantanamoVictory,”
justsecurity.org (2013); Co-author,“Associated Forces, Material
Support, and the Hidden Flaws in Ali v. Obama,”justsecurity.
org (2013);“Senate to Take CriticalVote on Guantanamo’s Fate,”
justsecurity.org (2013); Co-author,“The Case of Abu Anas al-Libi:
The Domestic Law Issues,”justsecurity.org (2013);“Preview - Al
Bahlul in the D.C. Circuit: The Fate of Military Commissions at
Guantanamo,”justsecurity.org (2013); Co-author,“Westgate, al
Shabaab, and the AUMF,”justsecurity.org (2013);“Limitless Wars:
Lessons from 9/11 for Syria (andVice-Versa),”ACSlaw.org (2013).
Angela J. Davis
Professor of Law
Publications
“There But For the Grace of God Go I”in
How CanYou Represent Those People?,
Palgrave Macmillan (2013);“In Search
of Racial Justice: The Role of the Prosecutor,”NYU Journal of
Legislation and Public Policy, vol. 16, no. 4 (2013).
Appointed, Chair of the Board,The Sentencing Project (2014).

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Robert Dinerstein
Professor of Law; Associate Dean for
Experiential Education
Publications
“On Torture, Ill-Treatment and People with
Psychosocial and Intellectual Disabilities:
Some Thoughts About the Report of the Special Rapporteur,”
in Torture in Health Care Settings: Reflections on the Special
Rapporteur on Torture’s 2013 Thematic Report, Center for
Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Anti-Torture Initiative
(2014);“Learning to be a Lawyer: Embracing Indeterminacy and
Uncertainty,”in Transforming the Education of Lawyers: The
Theory and Practice of Clinical Pedagogy, Carolina Academic
Press (2014).
Paul G. Hearne Award for Disability Rights, ABA Commission
on Disability Rights (2013).
Walter Effross
Professor of Law
Publications
“Building Blogs (and Law Firm Web Sites)
Ethically and Effectively,”Washington
Lawyer (January 2014);“Ten Tips for
Landing J.D. Jobs for Law Students and Graduates,”National
Law Journal (July 15, 2013);“Greetings and E- [But Not So-]
licitations!: Disclosures, Disclaimers, and Designs of Ethical
and Effective Law Blogs and Law Firm Web Sites”and“Topics
for Law Blogging: 125+ Suggestions,”presented at“Posts of
Distinction: Starting, Sustaining, and Showcasing a Blog on
Legal Policy Issues,”AUWCL (2013).
Lia Epperson
Associate Professor of Law; Director,
SJD Program
Publications
“The Promise and Pitfalls of Empiricism in
Educational Equality Jurisprudence,”Wake
Forest Law Review, vol. 48 (2013).
Christine Haight Farley
Professor of Law
Publications
“The Pan-American Trademark Convention
of 1929: A BoldVision of Extraterritorial
Meets Current Realities”in Trademark
Protection and Territoriality: Challenges in the Global Economy,
Edward Elgar Press (2014); Op-ed,“Racial Slurs and Football
Team Names: What Does Trademark Law Have to Say?”
Constitution Daily (November 2013); Lead author, Amicus Curiae
Brief of Law Professors, Paddle Tramps Manufacturing Co. v.
Alpha Chi Omega et al. (U.S. Supreme Court, 2013).
“2013 Irish Legal 100,”IrishVoice Newspaper (2013); Selected for
the Fulbright Specialist Roster,The Fulbright Foundation (2013).
2014 FACULTY APPOINTMENTS
Lia Epperson
Associate Dean for Faculty and
Academic Affairs
Professor Lia Epperson has been
appointed associate dean for faculty and
academic affairs as well as professor
of law. She joined the law school in
2010 and became director of the SJD
Program in 2012. Epperson is a nationally recognized expert in
the areas of civil rights, constitutional law, and education policy.
Her scholarship centers on the constitutional dialogue between
federal courts and the political branches, and its implications
for educational equity. She previously served on the law faculties
of the University of Maryland and Santa Clara University, and
as a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, focusing
on federal civil rights enforcement of educational policies and
practices. Prior to becoming a law professor in 2005, Epperson
directed the education law and policy group of the NAACP Legal
Defense Educational Fund (LDF). Before her time at LDF,
Epperson was an attorney with Morrison Foerster in Palo Alto,
CA, and a law clerk to the Honorable Timothy K. Lewis of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Jenny M. Roberts
Associate Dean for Scholarship
Professor Jenny Roberts, co-director
of the AUWCL Criminal Justice Clinic,
has been appointed associate dean
for scholarship. Her teaching and
research focus on the nation’s criminal
justice system, and in particular on
the constitutional, professional, ethical, and informal norms
governing the right to counsel in criminal cases. Roberts is co-
president of the Clinical Legal Education Association, serves as
the reporter for the National Association of Criminal Defense
Lawyers (NACDL) Task Force on Restoration of Rights and
Status after Conviction, and sits on the board of the Mid-Atlantic
Innocence Project. She also is member of the Academic Advisory
Board for the NACDL’s“Getting Scholarship into Courts Project.”
Roberts previously taught at Syracuse University and in NYU’s
Lawyering program. Prior to teaching, she was a Senior Research
Fellow at NYU Law School’s Center for Research in Crime
Justice, a public defender in Manhattan, and a law clerk in the
Southern District of NewYork.

Amanda Frost
Professor of Law
Publications
Book Review,“Reflections on Judging
by Richard A. Posner,”London School
of Economics Review of Books (2014);
Opening and Reply Briefs, Yanez-Marquez v. Holder (Fourth
Circuit) (Lead Counsel);“HonoringYour Oath in Political
Times,” The Pound Institute (2013);“Judicial Ethics and
Supreme Court Exceptionalism,”Georgetown Journal of
Legal Ethics, vol. 26 (2013).
Appointed,“Pound Institute Academic Fellow,” The Pound
Civil Justice Institute (2013).
Robert Goldman
Professor of Law;
Louis C. James Scholar
Publications
“Extraterritorial Application of the Rights
to Life and Personal Liberty, including
Habeas Corpus, During Situations of Armed Conflict”in Counter-
Terrorism Strategies in a Fragmented International Legal Order:
Meeting the Challenges, Edward Elgar (2013).
Claudio Grossman
Professor of Law; Dean; Raymond I.
Geraldson Scholar for International
and Humanitarian Law
Publications
Foreword,“The Future of International
Criminal Justice,”Penn State Journal of Law and International
Affairs, vol. 3 (2014);“The U.N. Committee Against Torture and
the Eradication of Torture in Health Care Settings,”in Torture in
Healthcare Settings: Reflections on the Special Rapporteur on
Torture’s 2013 Thematic Report (2014);“Freedom of Expression
and the Rule of Law,”in Vienna+20 - Advancing the Protection
of Human Rights,Vienna: Neuer WissenschaftlicherVerlag
(NWV) (2013); Summary of Participation,“Key Issues in Drafting
Anti-Torture Legislation, Expert Meeting, 2-3 November 2012,”
Report: Experience, Advice and Good Practices, publication
of the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) (2013);
“Statement of Claudio Grossman, Chairperson of the United
Nations Committee against Torture, to the 68th Session of the
United Nations General Assembly,Third Committee, Item 69(a),”
(2013);“Opening Remarks and Panel II Remarks”on“The Role of
the Committee against Torture in Providing Full and Adequate
Reparation toVictims,”in Litigation Before the UN Committee
against Torture: Strengthening This Important Tool against
Torture, Human Rights Brief, vol. 20, no. 4 (2013);“Introduction”
on“The Future of the Inter-American System of Human Rights,”
Human Rights Brief, vol. 20, no. 2 (2013);“Interview of Mr.
Claudio Grossman,”Human Rights Treaties Division Newsletter,
Office of the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights (2013).
Appointed, Steering Committee of the American Association
of Law Schools Deans Forum (2014); Re-elected, fourth term as
Chair of the United Nations Committee against Torture (2014);
Appointed, President, Inter-American Institute of Human Rights
(2014);“The Chilean Academic of theYear,”North American-
Chilean Chamber of Commerce (2013); Member, Honorary
Committee for the Charles Horman Truth Foundation’s“Tribute
to Justice”(2013); Elected chair of United Nations Human Rights
Treaty Bodies (one-year term) (2013).
Lewis Grossman
Professor of Law
Publications
“The Origins of American Health
Libertarianism,” Yale Journal of Health
Law, Policy, and Ethics, vol. 13 (2013); Food
and Drug Law: Cases and Materials, 4th Edition, Foundation
Press (2013).
David Hunter
Professor of Law; Director, International
Legal Studies Program; Director,
Program on International and
Comparative Environmental Law
Publications
Co-author, Climate Change and the Law, 2nd Edition, LexisNexis
(2013); Co-editor, Yearbook of International Environmental
Law, vol. 23 (2013);“International Environmental Law: Sources,
Principles and Innovations,”in Routledge Handbook on Global
Environmental Politics (2013);“Making Private Companies Pay
their Share for Climate Change: A New Study Could Revive
Climate Change Litigation,”Center for Progressive Reform Blog
(2013).
Elected Chair, Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide-U.S.
(2014); Re-elected Chair, Project on Government Oversight
(2014); Re-elected Treasurer, Bank Information Center (2014).
Peter Jaszi
Professor of Law; Faculty Director,
Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual
Property Clinic
Publications
“Fair Use and Education: The Way Forward,”
Law and Literature. vol. 25, no. 1 (2013).
Cynthia Jones
Publications
“‘Give Us Free’: Addressing Racial
Disparities in Bail Determinations,”New
York University Journal of Legislation and
Public Policy, vol. 16 (2014);“‘I AM Ronald Cotton’: Teaching
Wrongful Convictions in a Criminal Law Class,”Ohio State
Journal of Criminal Law, vol. 10 (2013).

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Appointed,Vice President, Board of Trustees,The Sentencing
Project (2013); Appointed, Development Coordinator, Pretrial
Justice Institute Board of Trustees (2013); Co-founder, AUWCL
Criminal Justice Practice and Policy Institute (2013).
Billie Jo Kaufman
Professor of Law; Associate Dean for
Library and Information Services
Appointed,Tenure Reviewer,Villanova Law
School (2014).
Benjamin Leff
Publications
“Tax Planning for Marijuana Dealers,”Iowa
Law Review Online, vol. 99 (2013).
Amanda Cohen Leiter
Publications
“Symposium: The Greenhouse Gas
Cases and the Importance of Deference,”
SCOTUSBlog (2014).
Binny Miller
Professor of Law; Director,
Criminal Justice Clinic
Appointed, Maryland Bar Task Force on Bar
Admissions (2013).
Elliott Milstein
Professor of Law
Publications
Co-author, Transforming the Education of
Lawyers: The Theory Practice of Clinical
Pedagogy, Carolina Academic Press (2014).
Fernanda Nicola
Professor of Law
Publications
“The Politics of Regulatory Cooperation and
the Divergence in Administrative Cultures
in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment
Partnership (TTIP),”Law Contemporary Problems (2014);
Co-author,“The Contractualization of Family Law in the United
States,”American Journal of Comparative Law (2014);“Global
diffusion of U.S. Legal Thought: Waning Influence, Selective
Exportation and Education Crisis,”in Constitutionalism in the
Americas (2014);“Critical Legal Histories in EU Law,”American
University International Law Review, vol. 28, no. 5 (2013);
“Intimate Liability: Tort Law, Family Law and the Stereotyped
Narratives of Interspousal Torts,”William and Mary Journal of
Women and the Law, vol. 19, no. 3 (2013);“Conceptions of Justice
from Below: Distributive Justice as a Means to Address Local
Conflicts in European Law and Policy”in Europe’s Justice Deficit,
Hart Publishing (2013).
Diane Orentlicher
Professor of Law
Publications
Op-ed,“Seeking justice for Syrians,”Reuters
“Great Debate”(Sept. 13, 2013);“The
Tension between Law and Politics: Can the
ICC Navigate a Multi-polar World?”in 108 ASIL Proceedings of
the 107th Annual Meeting (2013);“Review Essay: FromViability
to Impact: Evolving Metrics for Assessing the International
Criminal Tribunal for the formerYugoslavia,”International
Journal of Transitional Justice (2013);“Owning Justice and
Reckoning with Its Complexity,”Journal of International
Criminal Justice, vol. 11, no. 3 (2013).
Nancy Polikoff
Professor of Law
Publications
“From Third Parties to Parents: The Case of
Lesbian Couples and Their Children,”Law
and Contemporary Problems, Duke Law
School (2013).
Andrew Popper
Professor of Law
Publications
“More than the Sum of all Parts: Taking
on IP and IT Theft through a Global
Partnership,”Northwestern Journal
of Technology and Intellectual Property, vol. 12 (2014);“In
Personam and Beyond the Grasp: In Search of Jurisdiction and
Accountability for Foreign Defendants,”Catholic University Law
Review, vol. 63, no. 1 (2014);“Comment on the Proposed Revisions
to Rule 26 of the FRCP,”Regulations.Gov (2014).
Jamin Raskin
Professor of Law; Director, Program
on Law and Government
Publications
“The Marshall-Brennan Constitutional
Literacy Project: American Legal
Education’s Ambitious Experiment in Democratic
Constitutionalism,”Denver University Law Review, vol. 90
(2013);“The Gospel of Citizens United: Corporations Pray for the
Right to Deny Workers Contraception,”People for the American
Way (2014);“Citizens Derided: Corporate Politics and Religion
in the Roberts Court,”Harvard Law School Labor and Worklife
Program (2014).

Jayesh Rathod
Associate Professor of Law; Director,
Immigrant Justice Clinic
Publications
“Distilling Americans: The Legacy of
Prohibition on U.S. Immigration Law,”
Houston Law Review, vol. 51, no. 3 (2014); Co-author,“Promoting
Language Access in the Legal Academy,”University of Maryland
Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class, vol. 13, no. 1
(2013);“The Transformative Potential of Attorney Bilingualism,”
Michigan Journal of Law Reform, vol. 46, no. 3 (2013).
Association of American Law Schools Teacher of theYear for
AUWCL (2014).
Ira P. Robbins
Professor of Law and Justice; Director,
JD/MS Dual Degree Program in Law
and Justice; Barnard T. Welsh Scholar
Publications
Co-author,“Last Words: A Survey and
Analysis of Federal Judges’ Views on Allocution in Sentencing,”
Alabama Law Review, vol. 65 (2014); Habeas Corpus Checklists
(new edition),Thomson/Reuters/West (2014); Prisoners and
the Law (new edition, six volumes),Thomson/Reuters/West
(2013);“What Is the Meaning of ‘Like’?: The First Amendment
Implications of Social-Media Expression,”Federal Courts Law
Review (2013);“‘Bad Juror’ Lists and the Prosecutor’s Duty to
Disclose,”The Champion, vol. 37, no. 9 (2013).
“SSRN Top Ten Download Lists,”Social Science Research
Network (SSRN) (2014); Participation on Amicus Curiae brief,
Miller v. State of Maryland, Maryland Court of Appeals (2013);
“Must-Read Article,”NACDL Getting Scholarship into Court
Project (2013).
Jenny M. Roberts
Professor of Law; Co-Director, Criminal
Justice Clinic
Publications
“Collateral Damage: America’s Failure to
Forgive or Forget in the War on Crime,”
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (2014);
Co-author, Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions:
Law, Theory, Practice,West Publications (2013);“Effective
Plea Bargaining Counsel,”Yale Law Journal, vol. 122 (2013);
“Crashing the Misdemeanor System,”Washington and Lee Law
Review, vol. 70 (2013).
Award, Outstanding Scholarship, Research, Creative Activity, and
Other Professional Contributions, American University (2014);
Elected, Co-President, Clinical Legal Education Association
(2014); Board of Directors, Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project
(2013-16); Appointed, Member, Academic Advisory Board,
“Getting Scholarship into Courts Project,”National Association
of Criminal Defense Lawyers (2012).
Ezra Rosser
Professor of Law
Publications
Co-author, Poverty Law, Policy, and
Practice, Aspen / Wolters Kluwer (2014);
“Self-Determination, the Trust Doctrine,
and Congressional Appropriations: Promise and Pitfalls
of Federal Disentanglement from Indian Health Care,”in
Fédéralisme et Gouvernance Autochtone/Federalism and
Aboriginal Governance, Presses de l’Université Laval (2013).
Appointed,Visiting Scholar, UC Davis Center for Poverty
Research (2013).
Herman Schwartz
Professor of Law
Publications
Op-ed,“Filling JudicialVacancies to Protect
the Progressive Legacy,”Reuters (Jan. 2014);
Op-ed,“Democrats: It’s the States, Stupid!”
Reuters (2013); Op-ed,“The Real IRS Scandal,”Reuters (2013).
Ann Shalleck
Professor of Law; Director, Women and the
Law Program; Carrington Shields Scholar
Publications
Co-author, Transforming the Education of
Lawyers: The Theory Practice of Clinical
Pedagogy, Carolina Academic Press (2014);“The Role of Legal
Education in Addressing Student Debt: Representation of Low-
Income Borrowers in Clinical Programs,”Suffolk Law Review,
forthcoming, 2014;“The Feminist Academic’s Challenge to Legal
Education: Creating Sites for Change,”Journal of Law and
Policy, vol. 20 (2012)
Brenda V. Smith
Professor of Law
Publications
Co-author, National Training Curricula,
Human Resources and Administrative
Investigations, United States Department
of Justice PREA Resource Center and The Project on Addressing
Prison Rape (2014); Co-author, National Training Curricula,
Responding to Sexual Abuse ofYouth in Custody, Addressing
the Needs of Boys, Girls, and Gender Non-ConformingYouth,
United States Department of Justice PREA Resource Center
and The Project on Addressing Prison Rape (2014); Co-author,
National Training Curricula, Gender Responsive Strategies
in Responding to Sexual Abuse in Custody, United States
Department of Justice PREA Resource Center and The Project

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