Several students had the opportunity to attend a unique oral argument at the Court: the first ever in which both advocates were members of the Georgetown faculty.
Identical triplets Nicholas, Zachary and Benjamin Osborne, G'20, L'24, remember how they felt when they first found out they had been admitted to Georgetown Law. "When we got the acceptance letter, it was saying welcome home," Nicholas says. Having moved to Washington, D.C. to earn master's degrees in economics from Georgetown in 2020 and enjoyed their first round as Hoyas, the 29-year-old North Carolina natives say that getting into the Law Center was the sign they needed that the nation’s capital had become home.
Philip Hirschkop, L’64, will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the Georgetown Law commencement on Sunday, May 19. In the six decades since his graduation, Hirschkop has had a storied career in civil rights law, but he is best known for one…
Former United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch called upon students, alumni and faculty to remember the power of the law to protect people and secure justice at The Georgetown Law Journal’s 11th annual alumni banquet on April 24. Living up to the ideals of justice, she said, “is our highest and best purpose as lawyers — and in my view, as citizens.”
It began as a pie-in-the-sky idea from a faculty member, and a quarter-century later has become an invaluable resource for lawyers preparing for oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court – and a precious educational opportunity for Georgetown Law students.
Having beat out some 70 competitors, four finalists faced a panel of real-life judges and practitioners as they made their arguments in the last round of the 73rd annual Robert J. Beaudry Moot Court Competition on April 3. The competition is held each spring and offers first-year students the chance to practice their written and oral advocacy skills — with top performers earning an invitation to join the Appellate Advocacy Division of Georgetown Law’s Barristers’ Council.
U.S. Representative Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.), L’07, returned to her law school alma mater on April 15 to retrace the path that led her from piloting Navy helicopters to studying law at Georgetown to running for – and serving in – Congress.
In December 1923, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was first introduced in the U.S. House and Senate. Coming just after the passage of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, the ERA aimed to give women’s equality full Constitutional protection.
Among the treasured books in Professor Paul Rothstein's office is a signed first-edition volume by John Henry Wigmore, the lawyer and legal scholar whom Rothstein describes as the "Einstein of evidence law" for his contributions to the field at the turn of the 20th century.
Dr. Houssam al-Nahhas hoped to become a cardiac surgeon. Instead, he was tortured and detained for providing medical care during the Syrian uprising — and was forced to sign a pledge promising not to treat patients with alleged anti-government ties upon his release. "I just could not imagine how providing health care can be a crime, until I experienced it firsthand," he said of the experience, which motivated him to devote his career to documenting similar attacks on health care providers.
The 37th annual Home Court charity basketball game, held March 28 at the Gonzaga College High School gym, was a fast-paced match between students, faculty and staff from Georgetown Law (the Hoya Lawyas) and from the George Washington University Law School…
