WashU Law

H-1B Visa Process and Policy Updates
2025-11-20 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Chicago) | Zoom Event
The Career Center invites you to join us for an informative session on the H-1B visa process and recent policy updates, featuring Alanna Ow — a former Director of USCIS with extensive experience in immigration and visa matters. This is a unique opportunity to gain direct insight from someone who has overseen key aspects of U.S. immigration policy and to get answers to your specific questions about the H-1B process.

📍 Location: Zoom

You are welcome to submit your questions in advance using this Google Sheet, or you may pose your questions directly to Ms. Ow during the Zoom session.

This program is tailored for all international law students considering post-graduation employment in the U.S. to attend this valuable discussion.

We hope you will join us!

Please reach out to Carmen Ubarri or Mahili Rojas with any questions!

NLG - Panel on International Student Workers and Unionization at Washington University
2025-11-19 18:00 - 19:30 | Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom (310)
The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) will host a panel discussion addressing the challenges, importance, and broader implications of international student worker unionization efforts at Washington University. The panelists are Professor Sheldon Evans; Dr. Ilaria Patania, who is an Assistant Professor of Archaeology at Washington University and a former international graduate student; Dr. Augusto Medeiros da Rosa, a Senior Lecturer in Physics at Washington University and a former international graduate student; and a current international graduate student worker.

Tech/Privacy Law Society - Creators v. AI: A debate on the future of copyright
2025-11-19 18:00 - 19:00 | Cullenbine Classroom (A-B Hall, Room 305)
A debate hosted by the Technology and Privacy Law Society and Cardozo’s AI and the Law Society on the topic of AI and copyright. The event features WashU Law adjunct professor Oliver Roberts, currently teaching AI and Andrew Berger, an adjunct professor at Cornell known for representing the perspective of creatives in these debates, which he has conducted at several law schools nationwide.

Speaker info:Oliver Roberts, Co-Director of the WashU Law AI Collaborative & Adjunct ProfessorAndrew Berger, Adjunct Professor of Law at Cornell

1.5 credits in “areas of professional practice”

WashU Law Wednesday Community Spotlight: Sarah Narkiewicz, Assistant Dean for Clinical Education
2025-11-19 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom Event
Community Spotlight | Experience WashU Law’s commitment to diversity and inclusion through members of our community Learn more about our diverse faculty, staff, students and alumni!

Virtual Program

RSVP: https://forms.gle/B7QigiWtcvz6DmdA7

First Generation Law Society: Paths and Professors
2025-11-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Zorensky Classroom (AB Hall 306)
Join FGLS and WCLS for FGLS’s last event of the semester (and a crowd favorite from last year) as we hear from Professor D’Onfro and Professor Crum on career path timelines! Professor D’Onfro and Professor Crum will be discussing the paths that students should take, depending on if you have firm, public interest, or clerking goals: what steps you should take and when, what opportunities you should be seeking out, and so much more. Professor D’Onfro and Professor Crum will lay out clear timelines that 1Ls, 2Ls, and 3Ls should keep in mind and aim to follow, depending on what you aim to do after graduation.

Weekly SBA General Body Meeting
2025-11-19 12:00 - 12:50, 2025-11-12 12:00 - 12:50, 2025-11-05 12:00 - 12:50 | Greenfield Classroom (A-B Hall, Room 320)

Mental Health and Wellness Programming
2025-11-19 12:00 | Crowder Courtyard (A-B Hall, Room 301)
Please join SBA Mental Health and Wellness for programming in Crowder Courtyard on 11/19 at noon! It will be a fun, relaxing event where we will have a variety of offices throughout campus tabling, all dedicated to promoting the pillars of wellness. Our headliners will be the WUPD dogs Bear and Brookie. Come say hi!

Criminal Law Society - Ballistics 101
2025-11-18 12:00 - 13:00 | Cullenbine Classroom (A-B Hall, Room 305)
This is an event hosted by the Criminal Law Society that will prepare students going into a criminal law internship with all the necessary information they will need to understand the forensic evidence surrounding firearms. Public defender and former Marine Johnny Peddicord will be giving the presentation.

SALDF - Missouri Humane Society’s Animal Cruelty Task Force Investigators
2025-11-18 12:00 - 13:00 | Jordan Foundation Classroom (Room 204)
Join the WashU Law Student Animal Legal Defense Fund and the Missouri Humane Society’s Animal Cruelty Task Force investigators. They are coming to speak and give a presentation on puppy mills in Missouri.

The Admiralty Moot Court Team is now accepting applications!
2025-11-17 17:00
The Admiralty Moot Court Team has extended its application deadline! The Admiralty Moot Court Team practices and competes in the spring, with this year’s competition being held in Charleston, South Carolina on March 19 through 21. Interested students should email Prof. Richard Finneran by 5:00pm on Monday, November 17 with a copy of their resume and a persuasive writing sample. To audition, you will present an oral argument on an issue of your choice and entertain questioning for up to 10 minutes. You may argue any legal issue you designate with your application. More information is available by emailing Prof. Richard Finneran at refinneran@wustl.edu.

Beyond the Bench: Judicial Panel Discussion
2025-11-13 15:30 - 16:30 | Strauss Classroom (A-B Hall, Room 404)
Judge James Dowd (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District), Judge Sarah Pitlyk (U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri), and Judge David Stras (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit) will participate in a panel discussion moderated by Professor Conor Clarke.

AI and Copyright: Understanding the Issues, Lawsuits, and What Comes Next
2025-11-13 13:30
This CLE offers an accessible, in-depth overview of one of today’s most consequential legal debates—the clash between artificial intelligence and copyright law. As generative AI tools rely on vast quantities of copyrighted works for training, courts are now being asked to decide whether such use constitutes lawful fair use or unlawful reproduction. This session unpacks the central legal and policy questions at the heart of ongoing litigation, including The New York Times v. OpenAI, Getty Images v. Stability AI, and other landmark cases.

Speaker: Oliver Roberts, Co-Director, WashU Law AI Collaborative; Adjunct Professor of Law at WashU Law; Co-Head of AI Practice Group at Holtzman Vogel

Participants will gain insight into:

The competing legal theories driving the AI training vs. copyright infringement debate

How courts are analyzing data scraping, transformative use, and market substitution

The practical implications for creators, platforms, and AI developers

Emerging trends in judicial reasoning and what future rulings may mean for copyright law

By the end of this session, attendees will understand both the current legal landscape and the broader policy tensions between innovation, creative rights, and the evolving role of AI in content creation.

Hosted by:Washington University School of Law — AI Collaborative “AI Policy Series”

Eligible for FREE CLE in Missouri, courtesy of WashU Law.

Not eligible for CLE in other jurisdictions, but all are welcome to attend free for non-CLE credit.

Peer Academic Advising Academic Excellence Series
2025-11-13 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-11-06 12:00 - 13:00 | Hullverson Seminar Room (A-B Hall, Room 201)

How Large Language Models Work And What That Means for Courts
2025-11-13 12:00
AI is no longer a distant issue for the judiciary—it is already in the courtroom. Lawyers are filing AI-generated briefs, vendors are marketing “AI for judges,” and fabricated case citations have appeared in both filings and opinions. This CLE cuts through the hype to explain how today’s large language models (LLMs) actually work, why they sometimes make things up, and how courts can harness them responsibly.

Drawing on current examples—including Mata v. Avianca (S.D.N.Y. 2023) and the remarkable story of Cassandra White, a pro se tenant who overturned her own eviction using ChatGPT—the program explores both the dangers and opportunities AI presents to judicial administration. Participants will learn what makes LLMs powerful, where they fail, and what architectural safeguards are required before any AI system should ever assist a court.

Shlomo Klapper, developer of the Learned Hand judicial AI platform, offers an insider’s, non-promotional perspective on what it takes to build technology that upholds—rather than undermines—the judiciary’s core mission of justice, fairness, and efficiency. The session introduces a practical five-question framework for evaluating AI proposals, explains the concept of “hallucination,” and demonstrates the four essential design constraints of trustworthy judicial AI: Evidence-Linking, Procedural Grounding, Auditability, and Multi-Agent Cross-Check.

Speaker: Shlomo Klapper, CEO/Founder @ Learned Hand; J.D., Yale Law School

Moderator: Oliver Roberts, Co-Director, WashU Law AI Collaborative

Hosted by:Washington University School of Law — AI Collaborative “AI Policy Series”

Eligible for FREE CLE in Missouri, courtesy of WashU Law.

Not eligible for CLE in other jurisdictions, but all are welcome to attend free for non-CLE credit.

Impact of AI on Disinformation with Katerina Sedova
2025-11-12 13:00 - 14:00 | Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom (310)
Q&A with Katerina Sedova on the impact of AI on disinformation at noon in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom on November 12. Neil Richards will be the moderator.

Katerina Sedova is a prominent speaker, Atlantic Council fellow, and former US State Department official specializing in Ukraine and in disinformation. She is also a former fellow from CSET where she authored two prominent reports on disinformation.

Final Exam Sessions with your Registrars
2025-11-12 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-11-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Jordan Foundation Classroom (Room 204)
The Registrars will host informational sessions on final exams. Topics that will be covered: Final schedule, exam distribution, honor code, how to use the Exam4 software, new procedures for Take-home exams, etc.

7:30am – Online registration for spring classes for LLM, MLS & Exchange students
2025-11-12 00:00 - 23:59

7:30am - Online registration for spring classes for 2Ls
2025-11-12 00:00 - 23:59

High Stakes, Uncertain Gains: Trump's Economic Experiment So Far
2025-11-11 15:00 - 16:00 | Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom (310)
Join us for a timely and engaging conversation on the impact of dramatic changes in economic policy during the first year of the second Trump administration. In a moderated discussion, economists Steve Fazzari and Chris Varvares will assess what we know so far about the effect of these policies, exploring international trade, financial markets, tariffs, inflation and economic growth. A reception will immediately follow the event.

Conversation with Steve Fazzari and Chris Varvares, economists and Weidenbaum Center Fellows. Elizabeth Larson, Weidenbaum Center, will be moderating.

Talk will run from 3:00-4:00 or 4:15 pm

Reception will start immediately following. Should be done by 5:30 pm.

Sponsored by the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government & Public Policy and the WashU Law Public Interest Law & Policy Speaker Series.

Phi Alpha Delta - Surviving 1L Finals and Keeping Your Sanity
2025-11-11 12:00 - 13:00 | Strauss Classroom (A-B Hall, Room 404)
Join Phi Alpha Delta for a discussion about how to succeed during finals week, tips and tricks for practice exams, how to use time wisely, how to not burn out, and how/when to get help from professors.

SALDF - Guest Speaker Joseph DeVault
2025-11-11 12:00 - 13:00 | Jordan Foundation Classroom (Room 204)
Join the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund and guest speaker Joseph DeVault from the Missouri Animal Alliance Legislation. Joseph is coming to give a brief overview of MAAL, animal law in Missouri, and the legislation he’s working on in the 2026 session.

7:30am - Online registration for spring classes for 3Ls
2025-11-11 00:00 - 23:59

Peer Academic Advising Academic Excellence Series
2025-11-05 12:00 - 13:00 | Morriss Classroom (A-B Hall, Room 202)

Borders of Choice: Interstate, Federal, or Concurrent Regulation of Abortion?
2025-11-05 00:00 - 01:00 | The Janite Lee Reading Room
BORDERS OF CHOICE

Interstate, Federal, or Concurrent Regulation of Abortion?

Join the Federalist Society, If/When/How, the Frick Initiative, and PILPSS for a debate on the evolving tension between state sovereignty and federal authority in post-Dobbs America.

Featuring Susan Appleton, the Lemma Barkeloo & Phoebe Couzins Professor of Law, and Teresa Collett, Law Professor and Director of the Prolife Center at St. Thomas.

Big Tech, Big Issues: TikTok, NetChoice, and Social Media
2025-11-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom (310)
Join the Federalist Society with the Honorable Judge Divine of the U.S. District Judge for the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri, for a conversation examining how conservative legal theory is redefining the balance between executive power, free markets, and online speech in the era of global platforms and algorithmic influence.

BLSA and JLS – Navigating Big Law Firms
2025-11-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Jordan Foundation Classroom (Room 204)
