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When Haider Semaisim works on the federally mandated database of global incidents of terrorism with �鶹��Ƶ’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.”

To defend against terrorism, you have to understand it. Thanks to more than a dozen students, alumni and faculty at �鶹��Ƶ working on a digital terrorism database, everyone from policy makers to researchers around the world will be a step closer to that goal.

Many people are familiar with �鶹��Ƶ’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.

What does it take to transform a cool idea into a business? Students at �鶹��Ƶ’s Antonin Scalia Law School are finding out, by helping real-life entrepreneurs in the school’s new Innovation Law Clinic.

Six students at �鶹��Ƶ’s Antonin Scalia Law School are participating in the school’s new Immigration Litigation Clinic and advocating for clients facing a range of complex immigration proceedings.