On Thursday, Oct. 1, the Women and the Law Program, the International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ), and the Institute for Women’s Policy Research hosted a conversation on the global impact of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

American University Washington College of Law is pleased to announce that UN Women has awarded AUWCL's War Crimes Research Office, Academy on Human Rights, and Women and the Law Program a grant for the programs' joint Gender and International Criminal Law Project initiative, "Documenting Good Practice on Accountability for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Guatemala."

The Syrian Initiative to Combat Sexual and Gender-Based Violence is a partnership between local Syrian civil society organizations and American University Washington College of Law that aims to fight impunity and eliminate SGBV in Syria. Acknowledging the complexity of SGBV and being aware of its cultural sensitivity, the initiative is designed as an interdisciplinary programmatic plan to address the root causes of SGBV in Syria. Its plan primarily focuses on fighting the negative societal attitudes towards SGBV survivors that keep them confined to a cage of fear, unable to report the despicable crimes perpetrated against them.

In celebration of its Volumes 8 and 9 all-female editorial boards, the American University Business Law Review, proudly presents the first annual Women in Business Law Leadership Conference on May 7, 2019. The event will feature Kara Stein, former SEC Commissioner, as well as panels on legal transformation and future scholarship.

Tthe Program on Law and Government partnered with the Women and the Law Program, the American Constitution Society and the Federalist Society to host a new panel, Women in Politics: Campaigning in the Year of the Woman.