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A senator discusses midterm elections, former national security experts take on classified documents, and a top executive for a major company discusses law. Just a typical day at the Schar School.

Of the 115 judges who have served on the U.S. Supreme Court, 108 of them have been White men. This summer, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will spark a change, as she becomes the first Black woman to serve as a justice in the court’s 233-year history. She was confirmed by the Senate on April 7.

Crepelle took it upon himself to start learning Indian law, he said, and published widely on the subject. Now the assistant professor of law at ����AV is also the director of Mason’s new Tribal Law and Economics Program (TLEP), which includes a federal Indian Law course and the Tribal Sovereignty Clinic, where students work directly with tribes.

Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-VA-10) and Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL-6), both two vocal critics of the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing—discussed China’s ongoing human rights violations in a December webinar hosted by ����AV’s  National Security Institute (NSI).

With racial tension high in the United States, and the need for equity growing ever stronger, students and faculty at ����AV’s Antonin Scalia Law School participated in a 21-Day Racial Equity Habit-Building Challenge virtually in March and April.

The challenge, created by diversity expert Eddie Moore Jr., focuses on the Black American experience and is designed to advance deeper understandings of the intersections of race, power, privilege, and oppression, and guide participants in becoming more aware and engaged regarding racial equity.

Kenneth Randall has an impressive track record when it comes to using innovation to transform academia. The new dean of ����AV’s Antonin Scalia Law School said it all started from humble beginnings.

Acclaimed Grammy-winning singer/songwriter, author and advocate Rosanne Cash spoke with students at ����AV’s Antonin Scalia Law School during an online intellectual property conference held on Sept. 10.

When Haider Semaisim works on the federally mandated database of global incidents of terrorism with ����AV’s Schar School of Policy and Government, he does so with pride. It is not only an educational and professional endeavor, he said. “It’s personal.”

Many people are familiar with ����AV’s Arlington Campus, but fewer know its unique history, including how it became the only law school with an escalator when the university moved into the old Kann’s department store in the early 1970s.