Congratulations to the National Moot Court Team on their incredible performance at the National Finals of the ABA’s National Appellate Advocacy Competition! With one team in the top eight and another in the top sixteen, no other school in the country showed such consistent success in this year’s National Finals. 3Ls Rachel DiSibio, Nyla Khan,…
WashULaw recently hosted its Election Law Conference at Anheuser-Busch Hall. Fifteen scholars from across the U.S. gathered to present and discuss scholarship with their peers. Discussion topics included: Election Law and Race, Election Law after the 2020 Election, Election Law and Quantitative Methods, and Election Law and Democratic Theory. The keynote panel was moderated by…
The WashULaw Jessup team competed in the International Rounds of the Philip C. Jessup World Cup Moot Court competition, held from March 30 to April 6, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Congratulations to Mina Nur Basmaci, who was awarded the second-best oralist in the World Cup competition. This is an impressive achievement given that the competition…
Professor MJ Durkee, who was recently installed as the William Gardiner Hammond Professor in Law, attended the American Society of International Law’s (ASIL) Annual Meeting in Washington DC. While there, Professor Durkee was reelected to the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law, the top peer-reviewed publication in the field. Additionally, as…
WashULaw students Ben Wagoner, Chanho Roh, and Don Phillips recently competed at the Interscholastic Transactional Law Competition hosted by Duke Law. The team was coached by Professor and Board of Advisors Chair Cash Nickerson, and they won the silver medal, on March 23rd in Raleigh Durham, North Carolina. While they are close friends, Ben, Chanho,…
We are pleased to announce the honorees for this year’s Distinguished Alumni Awards, celebrating WashULaw graduates who have achieved success in their respective fields. Congratulations to these honorees! Dean’s Medal Howard Cayne, JD ’79 Retired Partner, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer Distinguished Alumni Award Greg Hewett, JD ‘94 Principal, GH Consulting Harry Joe, JD ‘75…
“Contract-Wrapped Property,” an article authored by Professor Danielle D’Onfro has been published in the Harvard Law Review. In the abstract, she writes: For nearly two centuries, the law has allowed servitudes that “run with” real property while consistently refusing to permit servitudes attached to personal property. That is, owners of land can establish new, specific requirements for…
Professor Conor Clarke presented “Income Inequality and the Corporate Sector” (with Wojciech Kopczuk of Columbia University) at the University of California, Irvine School of Law as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium hosted by Natascha Fastabend. For the series, leading tax scholars and tax-policy experts are invited to present their works-in-progress to a tax law…
Bhavya Arora is taking care of business… people… and plants. Born in India, Bhavya grew up in New York City. He arrived at WashULaw with prior legal experience, having worked at a Civil Rights and Personal Injury firm after receiving degrees in Political Science and Psychology from St. John’s University. But his love of law…
Congratulations to WashULaw alum Anthony Jones, JD ’11 who was honored at the Reservation Economic Summit as a Native American 40 Under 40 award winner by The National Center For American Indian Enterprise Development. Jones is an Associate Attorney at Dorsey & Whitney LLP where he provides advice and representation in relation to American Indian law…
Congratulations to 3L Tosin Agunloye, who was selected to receive the Chapman and Cutler LLP Maynard H. Jackson, Jr. Diversity Scholarship! The scholarship, established to support a law student, is named for the late Maynard Jackson, the first African American Mayor of Atlanta and a public finance partner at Chapman (1982-1990). Chapman and Cutler hosted…
Professor Trevor Gardner presented at the Race, Racism, and the Law Symposium at Harvard Law School, organized by Aziza Ahmed (Boston University) and Guy Uriel-Charles (Harvard). Professor Gardner authored a chapter that will be published in a Race, Racism, and the Law handbook edited by Ahmed and Uriel-Charles. Recent scholarship from Professor Gardner includes The…