Pro Bono PROGRAM Our pro bono program—headed by the legendary public interest lawyer Alan Morrison—builds even more pathways for student engagement, with opportunities to help the wrongly convicted or to write legal documents for cancer patients or to work with the Special Master in charge of assessing damages from the BP oil spill. Last year, our students logged more than 10,000 pro bono hours. In addition, the Law School awards nearly 100 summer public interest fellowships annually and provides loan repayment assistance to graduates embarking on public interest careers.
MOOT COURT During the past two years, GW Law has won four international moot court competitions. Our prestigious Van Vleck Constitutional Law Moot Court Competition was judged by Chief Justice John Roberts in 2006, Justice Samuel Alito in 2007, Justice Antonin Scalia in 2009, and Justice Elena Kagan in 2012. www.law.gwu.edu/skillsboards
JOURNALS Students can apply for membership on one of eight legal journals. •
The George Washington Law Review
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The George Washington International Law Review
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The American Intellectual Property Law
The Public Contract Law Journal The Journal of Energy and Environmental Law
Association Quarterly Journal
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Federal Circuit Bar Journal
Federal Communications Law Journal
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International Law in Domestic Courts
STUDY ABROAD The Law School offers students the opportunity to broaden their perspectives with study abroad programs during the summer and during the academic year: •
Oxford: A summer program in international human rights law.
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Munich: A summer program in intellectual property law.
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Augsburg: A summer program covering transnational economic law and the relevance of EU law to the global economy.
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North American Consortium on Legal Education (NACLE): One-semester program for second- and third-year students to study law at select Canadian and Mexican law schools.
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University of Groningen and Università Commerciale “Luigi Bocconi”: Exchange programs with prestigious institutions, the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, and Università Commerciale “Luigi Bocconi” in Milan, Italy.
www.law.gwu.edu/summer
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