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PAST EVENTS ruler
Nov 16, 2009 Discussion Celebrating the Publication of Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice
Nov 13, 2009

A Vain and Idle Enactment: Could McDonald v. Chicago Un-Slaughter the Privileges or Immunities Clause?

Nov 13, 2009 A New Abortion Debate: Changing Perspectives on Choice, Life and Law
Nov 12 & 13, 2009 Advanced E-Discovery Institute: Identifying Today's Problems and Tomorrow's Solutions
Nov 10, 2009 2nd Annual Lecture on the Legal Profession: Market-Driven Public Interest Law
Nov 9 & 10, 2009 Georgetown Marks 30 Years of Sino-American Diplomacy
Nov 8 & 9, 2009 2009 National Forum on the Human Right to Housing
Nov 2, 2009 Media, Kids, and the First Amendment
Oct 28, 2009 Ryan Lecture: "When Law & Love Are Not Enough: King Lear and the Spectacle of Terror"
Oct 27, 2009 Georgetown Law Forum - "Health Care Reform: Overdue Medicine or a Cure Worse than the Disease?"
Oct 27, 2009 Inaugural Georgetown Law - Aspen Institute Symposium: Executive Compensation and TARP: Finding Equity in a Third Rail Issue
Oct 26, 2009 Legal Solutions in Health Reform: The State of the Debate
Oct 22, 2009 Jerusalem Women Speak
Oct 21, 2009 Human Rights and the Defamation of Religions
Oct 19, 2009

Constitutional Litigation Against India's Anti-Sodomy Law: A Health and Human Rights Approach

Oct 7, 2009 Discussion Celebrating the Publication of The Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable
Oct 7, 2009 Report Launch: "Refugee Crisis in America: Iraqis and Their Resettlement Experience"
Oct 6, 2009 Medical Malpractice and Health Care Costs: Can Tort Reform Bend the Curve?
Oct 1, 2009 A Celebration of Public Interest Law and Presentation of the Drinan Award
Sept 25, 2009 States in the Lead: How States Can Continue to Guide Federal Climate, Energy and Transportation Policy
Sept 25, 2009 Presentation Honoring the Contributions of Ambassador Mark R. Dybul
Sept 23, 2009 New Media and the Law
Sept 22, 2009 Global Antitrust Enforcement Symposium
Sept 21, 2009 Supreme Court Institute Annual Press Briefing
Sept 17, 2009 Constitution Day Panel - Defining Human Rights: What Role Does International Law Play in Our Constitutional System?
June 24, 2009 Immigration Reform: A New Era
June 4-6, 2009 Global Legal Skills Conference
June 3, 2009 President Obama’s Nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court and the Confirmation Process
May 20, 2009 Striking the Balance: Fair and Independent Courts in a New Era
May 17, 2009 2009 Georgetown Law Commencement
Apr 20, 2009 Developments in the UK and Australia: How Might They Affect the Regulation of Legal Practice in the United States?
Apr 16, 2009 Hart Lecture: "Transnational and International Law and the Supposed Democratic Deficit"
Apr 1, 2009 22nd Annual Home Court Charity Basketball Game
Mar 28, 2009 Get in the Game Lady Lawyers Basketball Tournament
Mar 27, 2009 The Lawyer Statesman
Mar 27, 2009 From the Horse's Mouth: Firsthand Perspectives on Animals, Law, & Policy
Mar 26, 2009 The Intersection of Juvenile Justice and Poverty
Mar 24, 2009 Criminal Syndicates & Human Trafficking: What Can You Do About Them?
Mar 20, 2009 Bringing Detainees to Justice and Justice to Detainees
Mar 19, 2009 Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights
Mar 19, 2009 GEMALaw Sports and Entertainment Law Symposium
Mar 18, 2009 Michael Ratner Book Discussion: "The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld"
Mar 12 & 13, 2009 Thirteenth Annual Corporate Counsel Institute
Mar 2, 2009 Faith on the Hill
Feb 26, 2009 The Exonerated and the U.S. Supreme Court
Feb 23, 2009 Kickoff of the Georgetown State-Federal Climate Resource Center
Feb 23, 2009 Author John Grisham on his book, "The Innocent Man"
Feb 5, 2009 Kenneth W. Starr: 35 Years of Court Watching
Jan 28, 2009 Will Turkey Ever Become a Member of the European Union?
Dec 4, 2008 Celebrating 60 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Nov 24, 2008 Public Interest Litigation in Pakistan
Nov 20-21, 2008 Fifth Annual Advanced E-Discovery Institute
Nov 20, 2008 On War Crimes and Torture
Nov 12, 2008 The Role of Science in Advancing Global Health Diplomacy
Nov 11, 2008 O'Neill Institute Colloquium: Global Health Workforce Issues
Nov 6, 2008 Town Hall Meeting: A Call to Action for Juvenile Justice
Nov 3, 2008 Systemic Risk
Oct 30, 2008 The Law and Morality of Interrogation
Oct 28, 2008 Global Health/PEPFAR
Oct 27-28, 2008 Inauguration of the Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London
Oct 22, 2008 Georgetown Law Forum - Decision 2008: November 4 and Beyond
Oct 21, 2008 O'Neill Institute Colloquium: International Health Assistance
Oct 20, 2008 McCain v. Obama in the Supreme Court of the United States: A Hypothetical
Oct 8, 2008 Election Town Hall 2008: Issues Facing the South Asian Community
Oct 2, 2008 Our Courts and Corporate Citizenship
Sept 24, 2008 Ryan Lecture: From Agents to Partners: Toward a New Model of the Corporate Attorney-Client Relationship
Sept 23, 2008 Global Antitrust Enforcement Symposium
Sept 22, 2008 Supreme Court Institute Annual Press Briefing
Sept 9, 2008 Dr. Anthony S. Fauci - "Global Health and Infectious Diseases: Challenges and Opportunities"
May 21 & 22, 2008 The History & Future of U.S. and Global Takeover Regulation: The Williams Act 40 Years On
May 20, 2008 2008 and Beyond: Immigration Challenges the New Administration Will Confront
May 18, 2008 2008 Commencement Ceremony
Apr 28, 2008 Emerging Privacy Issues between the US & EU - Bridging the Transatlantic Gap
Apr 22, 2008 Rep. Van Hollen: Upcoming Election & Participation in the Political Process
Apr 17 & 18, 2008 Symposium: The Future of the Global Law Firm
Apr 16, 2008 21st Annual Home Court Charity Basketball Game
Apr 16, 2008 The Intersection of Immigration and Gang Reduction Policies
Apr 14, 2008 40 Years After In Re Gault
Apr 11, 2008 Sports & Entertainment Law Symposium and Launch of GEMALaw
Apr 10, 2008 Inauguration of the Center on National Security and the Law
Apr 9, 2008 Screening of Alliance for Justice's "Supreme Injustices"
Apr 8, 2008 Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights: The Future of Human Rights
Apr 3, 2008 Panel Discussion Celebrating the Publication of "Asylum Denied"
Apr 1, 2008 The Changing Patent Landscape
Mar 25, 2008 Georgetown Law Celebrates Arrival of National Equal Justice Library
Mar 19, 2008 Hart Memorial Lecture: Future of International Criminal Justice
Mar 18, 2008 Did Your Teachers Get It Right?: Debate About Sex Education in Public Schools
Mar 13, 2008 Former Attorney General Edwin Meese III: Would the Founders Recognize This Supreme Court?
Mar 12, 2008 Sexual Orientation and Military Preparedness: An International Perspective
Mar 11, 2008 Accountability of Private Security Contractors
Mar 6 & 7, 2008 Twelfth Annual Corporate Counsel Institute
Feb 27, 2008 Georgetown Law Forum - Decision 2008
Feb 26, 2008 Address - Crimes Against Women Around the World
Feb 12, 2008 Address by Rep. Keith Ellison
Feb 5, 2008 Symposium - Global Responsibility: Myth or Reality?
Jan 26, 2008 Third Annual "Get in the Game" Lady Lawyers Basketball Tournament
Jan 24, 2008 Justice Ginsburg and Baroness Hale: The British & U.S. Legal Systems
Dec 4, 2007 The Future of Habeas Corpus and Executive Power
Nov 30, 2007 Panel: "Global Warming and the SEC"
Nov 29, 2007 Conference: "The Mukasey Hearings Revisited"
Nov 28, 2007 Discussion Celebrating the Publication of "Top Secret"
Nov 16, 2007 Colloquium on the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child
Nov 15-16, 2007 Fourth Annual Advanced E-Discovery Institute
Nov 15, 2007 Iraqi Legal Culture and Tradition
Nov 13, 2007 Tunisia: A Model of Middle East Stability or an Incubator of Extremism?
Oct 30, 2007 Discussion and Debate Celebrating the Publication of "Less Safe, Less Free"
Oct 26-27, 2007 Conference: "Changing the Conversation about Mental Health"
Oct 24, 2007 Kaiser Lecture: "Globalization, Labor Conditions, and Human Rights"
Oct 23, 2007 Georgetown Law Forum with House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer
Oct 17, 2007 The Debate Over Judicial Elections and State Court Judicial Selection
Oct 16, 2007 Georgetown Law Forum with Treasury Secretary Paulson
Oct 12, 2007 Immigrant Rights and International Human Rights Conference
Oct 11, 2007 Book Launch - "International Migration Law: Developing Paradigms and Key Challenges"
Oct 11, 2007 Author Francisco Goldman - The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?
Oct 10, 2007 Symposium - Courts at Risk, Rights in Peril: Where Have All the Courageous Gone?
Oct 4, 2007 Corporate Compliance: The Role of Company Counsel
Oct 2, 2007 Remembering Terri Schiavo: The Legal and Legislative Battle to Save My Sister's Life
Oct 1, 2007 Sister Helen Prejean - Dead Man Walking: The Journey Continued
Sept 29, 2007 Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Division
Sept 26, 2007 Thomas F. Ryan Lecture: Human Rights in the Age of Terrorism
Sept 26, 2007 Global Antitrust Enforcement Symposium
Sept 24, 2007 Supreme Court Institute Annual Press Briefing
June 29, 2007 Discussion of the U.S. Supreme Court's October Term 2006
May 20, 2007 2007 Georgetown Law Commencement Ceremony
April 19-20, 2007 Inauguration of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
April 16-17, 2007 Kirkpatrick Antitrust Conference: Conservative Economic Influence on U.S. Antitrust Policy
April 12, 2007

Panel - The Promise of a New Constitution: Achieving Equal Property and

Inheritance Rights for the Women of Swaziland
April 11, 2007 Panel Discussion on Issues in International Criminal Law
April 3, 2007 Panel - Global Warming and the Clean Air Act in the Supreme Court
March 29, 2007 Panel Discussion - The Future of International Law
March 27, 2007 Georgetown Law Forum on Immigration Policy
March 26, 2007 Judge Brett Kavanaugh: Judging on the D.C. Circuit
March 21, 2007 Hart Lecture: Human Rights in Times of Terror
March 21, 2007 Georgetown Law Faculty and Congressmen Compete to Help Homeless
March 20, 2007 Justice Breyer Participates in Electronic Information Discussion
March 15, 2007 Symposium - Corporate Criminality: Legal, Ethical, and Managerial Implications
March 8 & 9, 2007 Georgetown Law's 11th Annual Corporate Counsel Institute
February 28, 2007 Symposium: Human Trafficking of South Asians for Sexual and Labor Exploitation
February 27, 2007 Georgetown Law Forum: Sen. Durbin on Human Rights and the Law
February 15, 2007 Symposium: Agriculture in the Developing World
February 15, 2007 Inaugural Lecture by Judge Thomas Buergenthal: One Hundred Years of Human Rights
February 13, 2007 Second Annual Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights
February 10, 2007 Women Lawyers Basketball Tournament
February 9, 2007 Conference on United Nations Reform
February 8, 2007 Panel Discussion - Jesus: A Perspective of Three Faiths
January 24-25, 2007 Symposium: Global Sourcing and the Global Lawyer
January 17, 2007 Face to Face with a Guantánamo Detainee
December 13, 2006 Georgetown Law Forum with Senator Leahy
December 8, 2006 A Conversation with Justice Breyer and Harvard Law Professor Fried
December 8, 2006 Address by Anwar Ibrahim: Public Policy and the Public Interest
November 29, 2006 Panel - Global Warming in the Supreme Court: Massachusetts v. EPA
November 27, 2006 Professor Feldblum Introduces Moral Values Project
November 16-17, 2006 Third Annual Advanced E-Discovery Institute
November 14, 2006 Georgetown Law Forum - After the Election: What Happened and Where Do We Go From Here?
November 10, 2006 Global Warming in the Courts: An Overview of Current Litigation and Common Legal Issues
November 1, 2006 Thomas F. Ryan Lecture
November 1, 2006 Clean Air Act Panel - The Duke Energy Case
October 30, 2006 Address - Three Faiths in One Land: The Rise and Fall of Pluralism in Medieval Spain
October 25, 2006 Election Law Panel
October 23, 2006 Announcement of the Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Chair in Human Rights
October 21, 2006 Symposium - Twenty Years of Legal Ethics: Past, Present, and Future
October 18, 2006 Symposium - The Law of Politics: The Role of Law in Advancing Democracy
October 13, 2006 Conference on Public Health Law and Human Rights
October 3, 2006 Georgetown Law Forum: Lord Falconer Discusses International Terrorism
Sept. 28 -29, 2006 Justices O'Connor and Breyer Co-Chair Judiciary Conference
Sept. 25, 2006 Supreme Court Institute Annual Press Briefing
Sept. 13, 2006 Speech by Feminists for Life Pres.
June 30, 2006
Panel discussion on Supreme Court decision in the case of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
June 20, 2006
June 2 - 11
CLE: Intensive Session in Trial Advocacy Skills 2006
June 8 & 9, 2006
Symposium on Antitrust Modernization
May 24, 2006 Address: “Defeating Poverty in the Nation and the World”
May 21, 2006 Commencement Ceremony
April 28, 2006 3rd Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference
April 26, 2006 Symposium: "Forgotten America: Fighting Poverty in Rural Communities
April 25, 2006 Panel: "Exploring a New GI Bill"
April 25, 2006 Cypriot Ambassador Address
April 24, 2006 DC Schools Chief & Street Law Championship
April 22, 2006 First Women Lawyers Basketball Tournament
April 10, 2006 Inaugural Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights
April 5, 2006

John Wolff Memorial Service

5:30 p.m., 12th Floor Gewirz Student Center

March 29, 2006
Georgetown Law Federalist Society’s third annual Lifetime Service Award Ceremony
March 29, 2006
Georgetown Law Faculty And Congressmen Compete To Help Homeless
March 24, 2006
Conference on Economic and Social Inequality
March 22, 2006
The Twenty-Sixth Annual Philip A. Hart Memorial Lecture
March 15, 2006 Law and Ethics in a Brave New World: What Should Government Do About Cloning and Stem Cell Research
March 9 & 10, 2006
Georgetown Law’s Tenth Annual Corporate Counsel Institute
March 1, 2006
February 27, 2006
Lecture on Race Law by F. Michael Higginbotham
February 21, 2006
Panel: “The Clean Water Act in the Supreme Court: the Rapanos, Carabell, and S.D. Warren Cases”
February 16, 2006
Georgetown Law Forum: The War on Terror: Civil Defense vs. Civil Liberties
February 15, 2006
Guantanamo Bay Prisoners Panel
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor
February 14, 2006
Kenji Yoshino discusses his new book, “Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights”
February 8, 2006
Recent Alumni & Faculty Reception
January 24, 2006
January 24, 2006
Vatican II: 40 Years Later
Campus Ministry Lecture
4:00 PM
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor
January 24, 2006
February 19, 2006
November 16, 2005
November 8, 2005
October 31, 2005
Environmental Law Research Workshop
Topic: "Saving Nature Despite Fools, Felons and Experts: Conservation Stories from the Front Line"
Speaker: Howard Latin, Rutgers Newark School of Law
Location: McDonough Room 492
Time: 3:30 - 5:30
October 24, 2005
Environmental Law Research Workshop
Topic: "The Private Life of Public Law"
Speaker: Michael Vandenbergh, Vanderbilt University School of Law
Location: McDonough Room 492
Time: 3:30 - 5:30
October 20, 2005
October 17, 2005
Environmental Law Research Workshop
Topic: Race and Nuisance Law in the Jim Crow Era"
Speaker: Nina Mendelson, University of Michigan School of Law
Location: McDonough Room 492
Time: 3:30 - 5:30
October 12, 2005
October 11, 2005
Environmental Law Research Workshop
Topic:"Race and Nuisance Law in the Jim Crow Era"
Speaker: Rachel Godsil, Seton Hall University School of Law
Location: McDonough Room 492
Time: 3:30 - 5:30
October 3, 2005
Environmental Law Research Workshop
Topic: "Why States Regulate: The Impact of Federal Action on State Regulatory Choices "
Speaker: Jonathan Adler, Case Western University School of Law
Location: McDonough Room 492
Time: 3:30 - 5:30
September 26, 2005
Environmental Research Workshop
Topic: "The Law and Economics of New Source Review"
Speaker: Dean Richard Revesz, New York University School of Law
Location:McDonough Room 492
Time 3:30-5:30
September 21, 2005
September 20, 2005
September 19, 2005
September 19, 2005
September 19, 2005
Environmental Research Workshop
Topic: "Who's Afraid of the Precautionary Principle"
Speaker: Robert Percival, University of Maryland School of Law
Location: McDonough Room 492
Time: 3:30 - 5:30
September 15, 2005
September 13, 2005
September 9, 2005
September 6, 2005
August 31, 2005 American Constitution Society panel on the John Roberts Nomination
August 30, 2005
July 7, 2005
June 20, 2005
Alumni Supreme Court Swearing-in Ceremony
June 3 -12 2005
CLE: Intensive Session in Trial Advocacy Skills 2005 (pdf)
Georgetown University Law Center Hart Auditorium (formerly Moot Courtroom).
May 24, 2005

Immigration Conference
Hart Auditorium,
9 am - 4:30pm
May 22, 2005
April 29, 2005

Gospelfest
8:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Location TBA
Free Concert featuring Georgetown University Law Center Gospel Choir and other special performances.
April 28, 2005
April 9, 2005
March 16 ,2005
March 10 & 11
February 18, 2005
Intellectual Property & Technology Law Colloquium
Glynn S. Lunney, Jr., of Tulane University will present,
“Direct and Indirect Stock Price Reactions to Patent Decisions.”
12:00 p.m.
McDonough Hall, Faculty Lounge (5th Floor)
600 New Jersey Ave., N.W.
February 7, 2005 The Georgetown Law Chapter of the American Constitution Society's Fourth Annual "Congress and the Courts Lecture"
February 2, 2005
Symposium on the International Response to the Environmental Impacts of War
9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Georgetown University Law Center
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor
120 F Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001
January 19, 2005
January 19, 2005 Lawyers of Vision Lecture
4:00 p.m.
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor
Marcia Greenberger of the National Women's Law Center will be the
featured speaker.
January 19, 2005
Recent Alumni Council Cocktail Reception with Faculty
6:30 p.m.
For additional information, please contact the Office of Alumni Affairs
at (202) 662-9500.
Dec. 5, 2004
Sloan Interdisciplinary Workshop
12:00 to 1:30 p.m.
Faculty Lounge (Room 520, McDonough Hall)
Jim Rebitzer of Case Western Reserve University will discuss “Physician
Incentives in Managed Care Organizations.”
Contact Rebecca Cady at (202) 662-9630 for further information
Dec. 3, 2004
Law and Economics Workshop
12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Faculty Lounge (Room 520, McDonough Hall)
Howard Chang of the University of Pennsylvania Law School will present
“Cultural Communities in a Global Labor Market: Immigration Restrictions
as Residential Segregation.”
Nov. 21, 2004
Sloan Interdisciplinary Workshop
12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Faculty Lounge (Room 520, McDonough Hall)
Stephen J. Lubben of Seton Hall University School of Law will discuss
“Railroad Receiverships and Modern Bankruptcy Theory.”
Contact Rebecca Cady at (202) 662-9630 for further information.
Nov. 19, 2004

Intellectual Property & Technology Law Colloquium
12:00 noon - 1:30 p.m.
Faculty Lounge (Room 520, McDonough Hall)
Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard Law School will discuss, "Free Software and the Future of the Internet."

Nov. 17, 2004
15th Annual Henry Kaiser Memorial Lecture
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Gewirz Student Center,
12th Floor 120 F St. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001
Nov. 16, 2004

Environmental Research Workshop
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Room 210, McDonough Hall
Law Center Future Law Professor Fellow Alejandro Camacho will present, "Is All Fair in Land Use Regulation? Achieving Comprehension, Equitable Land Use Regulation Through a Collaborative Governance Model."
Nov. 12, 2004

Law & Economics Workshop
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Faculty Lounge (Room 520, McDonough Hall)
Ken Dau-Schmidt of Indiana University School of Law will discuss, "Gender and the Legal Profession: The Michigan Alumni Data Set 1967 - 2000."

Nov. 10, 2004
Nov. 9, 2004
Environmental Research Workshop
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Faculty Lounge (Room 520, McDonough Hall)
Larry Rassmussen, Union Theological Seminary Reinhold Professor of Social Ethics, will discuss, "A Task for Generations: Religion, Law and Sustainability.
Nov. 5, 2004

Law & Economics Workshop
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Faculty Lounge (Room 520, McDonough Hall)
Sean Gailmard of Northwestern University's Department of Political Science will be the guest speaker.

Nov. 3, 2004
The Federalist Society for Law and Public Studies
THE DAY AFTER
What happened?
What do exit polls mean?
What is the impact of the election result on the supreme court and judicial nominations?
Panelists:Professor Louis Michael Seidman, Georgetown Law, Professor Roy Schotland, Georgetown Law, Manny Miranda,
Former Counsel to Orrin Hatch
Moderator: Professor Charles C. Abernathy, Georgetown Law
3:30PM
(Room 2000) Hotung Building
Nov. 2, 2004

Environmental Research Workshop
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Room 210, McDonough Hall
Devra Lee Davis of the University of Pittsburgh Center for Environmental Oncology will present, "Past and Present Environmental Health Challenges in Southwestern Pennsylvania : Some Comments on the Right to a Clean Environment."

Oct.29, 2004 Law & Economics Workshop
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Faculty Lounge (Room 520, McDonough Hall)
Gillian Hadfield of the University of Southern California Law School will be the featured speaker.
Oct.26, 2004 Environmental Research Workshop
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Tim Wise of Tufts University 's Global Development and Environmental Institute will discuss, "The Economic Costs of Agricultural Trade Liberalization: Mexico-U.S. Maize Trade Under NAFTA.
Oct. 22, 2004

Law & Economics Workshop
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Faculty Lounge (Room 520, McDonough Hall)
Duncan Kennedy of Harvard Law School will present, "A Left Wing Law and Economics Case Study: Should We Protect Low Income Home Buyers Against Foreclosure?"

Oct. 19, 2004 North Korean Human Rights Seminar 
Oct. 19, 2004 Environmental Research Workshop
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Room 210, McDonough Hall
Amy Sinden of Temple University 's James E. Beasley School of Law will present, "In Defense of Absolutes: Combating the Politics of Power in Environmental Law."
Oct. 15, 2004

Intellectual Property & Technology Law Colloquium
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Faculty Lounge (Room 520, McDonough Hall)
Rochelle Dreyfuss of New York University School of Law will present, "Protecting the Public Domain of Science under International Law."

Oct. 13, 2004

Health Fair
12:00 - 5:30
Oct. 8, 2004

Law & Economics Workshop
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Faculty Lounge (Room 520, McDonough Hall)
Susan Rose-Ackerman of Yale Law School will discuss, "Bilateral Investment Treaties and Foreign Direct Investment."

Oct. 5, 2004

Environmental Research Workshop
3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Room 210, McDonough Hall
David Schoenbrod of New York Law School will present, “A Better Way to Clean Earth.”

Sept. 29, 2004 Panel Discussion: "Haiti: U.S. Foreign Policy, Human Rights, and International Law"
6:00-8:00pm
Georgetown University Law Center
Hart Auditorium 
McDonough Hall
Sept. 27, 2004 Annual Supreme Court Institute Press Briefing
9 : 00 - 11:00a.m.
Georgetown University Law Center
Hotung International Law Building , Room 2000
550 First St., N.W. (use Tower Green entrance)
Sept 13 & 14, 2004 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics and FTC Workshop on Class Actions
The Federal Trade Commission and the Georgetown Journal of Legal
Ethics will co-host a workshop,
“Protecting Consumer Interests in Class Actions,”
September 13 and 14
FTC Conference Center,
601 New Jersey Avenue,
starting at 9:00 a.m. both days.
The workshop will bring together judges, academics, class action
practitioners, in-house corporate and government attorneys,
economists, advocacy groups, and claims facilitators to explore
whether certain aspects of the class action mechanism
– including settlement notices, non-pecuniary remedies, and attorney
fee awards – can be revised, reformed, enhanced, or improved to
protect the interests of consumer class members. For a complete
schedule and more details, please visit:
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/workshops/classaction/index.htm.
If you have further questions, please contact Mattie Johnstone at
mjj7@bulldog.georgetown.edu.
Sept. 10, 2004 Sport & Fitness Center Opening Celebration
Sept. 10, 2004 Colloquium on Intellectual Property & Technology Law
Paul J. Heald of the University of Georgia will present, "A Transaction
Costs Theory of Patent Law."
July 16, 2004 Panel on Human Rights in Africa
12:00 p.m.
Room 588, McDonough Hall
Please RSVP (202)662-9650 or izs@law.georgetown.edu
July 16, 2004 Legal Times Supreme Court Review
2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
McDonough Hall, Moot Court Room
Please contact the Continuing Legal Education office for more information at (202)662-9890.
July 1, 2004 Panel Discussion: "The Supreme Court's Environmental Decisions From the 2003-04 Docket"
June 30, 2004

Celebration of the 40 th Anniversary of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (prohibition of employment discrimination)
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
McDonough Hall, Moot Court Room
To view a flyer and additional information on this event, please visit this link: http://www.eeoc.gov/abouteeoc/40th/panel/index.html

June 22, 23, & 30

Celebration of the 40 th Anniversary of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (prohibition of employment discrimination)
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
McDonough Hall, Moot Court Room
To view a flyer and additional information on this event, please visit this link: http://www.eeoc.gov/abouteeoc/40th/panel/index.html

June 29, 2004 Panel Discussion: "Exploring the Supreme Court's Terrorism and Detainee Cases: A Preliminary Assessment of the Rulings"
June 24-25

E-Discovery and Document Retention
8:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
McDonough Hall, Moot Court Room
For additional information, please contact the Continuing Legal Education office at (202)662-9890

June 21, 2004 Alumni Supreme Court Swearing-in Ceremony
June 8, 2004 Investigating Gender Crimes in Armed Conflict"
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
McDonough Hall, Room 344
Please call Zinta Saulkalns for additional information at (202)662-9598.
May 24-26, 2004 Criminal Justice Clinic's Public Defender Service Training
9 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
McDonough Hall, Room 200
Please call Teruko Scriven for additional information at (202) 662-9574
May 23, 2004 Commencement
9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Healy Lawn [Rain Site: McDonough Arena]
Georgetown University, 37th & O Streets NW
May 18, 2004 1st Annual Immigration Legal and Policy Conference
May 13 -14, 2004 CLE: Advanced State and Local Tax Institute 2004
April 28-30 CLE: Primer on Tax Exempt Organization, Mt Ct
April 30, 2004 Sloan-funded Interdisciplinary Workshop
Topic: Corporations and Human Rights
 Speaker: Carlos Vazquez
12:00 p.m.- 1:30 P.m.
McDonough Hall, Faculty Lounge (Room 520)
Contact: Prof. Margaret Blair
April 22, 2004 Earth Day Speech: "We Were all Going to Recycle; We Were all Going to Breathe Clean Air - Restoring the American Environmental Dream."
Carl Pope, Executive Director of the Sierra Club
Thursday, April 22, 2004, 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor
April 21, 2004 Vietnamese Faculty Delegation Lunch
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Gewirz Student Center, Room 109
For additional information, please call the Office of Special Events at
(202)662-9505.
April 20, 2004 Panel Debate on the Proposed Federal Amendment To Ban Same-Sex Marriage
6:00 p.m.
Moot Court Room
McDonough Hall
April 20, 2004 Georgetown Law's American Constitution Society Chapter Presents: Indefinite Detention of U.S. Citizens: Hamdi and Padilla as "Enemy Combatants?"
3:30 p.m.
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor
April 19, 2004 Baker & McKenzie Lecture
Speakers:Daniel Goelzer and Professor Donald Langevoort will deliver the inaugural Baker & McKenzie International Law Lecture, " Applying United States Securities Regulation Abroad"
4:00 pm
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor
A reception will follow.
All are welcome to attend.
For more information, please contact Catherine Young at (202)
662-9533.
April 16, 2004 Book Party for Professor Sheryll Cashin
"The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class are Undermining the American Dream"
Noon
McDonough Hall, Faculty Lounge (Room 520)
RSVP by April 12th to (202) 662-9548
April 16, 2004 "Employment Law and Litigation Institute", Sponsored by the Law Center's Continuing Legal Education Department
April 16, 2004 50 Years After Bolling V. Sharpe: The Case That Ended School Segregation in the Nation's Capital Panels 3 & 4
April 15, 2004 "Employment Law and Litigation Institute", Sponsored by the Law Center's Continuing Legal Education Department
April 15, 2004

Intellectual Property Colloquium
Duke Law School Professor Arti K. Rai, will present "Open-Source Genomics and the Biopharmaceutical Industry."
3:30 p.m.
Faculty Lounge, 5th Floor McDonough Hall

April 15, 2004 Special Court for Sierra Leone
Guest Speaker will be David Crane, Prosecutor for the Special Court for Sierra Leone.
http://www.sc-sl.org/
4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor
April 15 & 16, 2004 50 Years After Bolling V. Sharpe: The Case That Ended School Segregation in the Nation's Capital Panels 1& 2
April 13, 2004 Law & Technology Lecture featuring Declan McCullagh
12:15 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
McDonough Hall, Room 203
April 8, 2004 Book Party for Professors Carrie Menkel-Meadow and Robin West
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Edward Bennett Williams Law Library, 5th Floor Atrium
RSVP by April 5th to (202)662-9548
April 7, 2004 Lawyers of Vision Speaker Series
Guest Speaker will be Kenneth Feinberg, Special Master for the September 11th
Victim Compensation Fund.
4:30 p.m.
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor
A reception will follow.
April 3, 2004 Annual Scholarship Luncheon
noon - 2:00 p.m.
April 2, 2004 Women's Forum
March 31, 2004

HomeCourt 2004
The Hoya Lawyas will face the Hill's Angels in the 17th annual HomeCourt charity basketball game. Proceeds from Home Court benefit the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless.
7:30 p.m.
McDonough Arena, Georgetown University Main Campus

March 31, 2004

Protecting Judicial Discretion from the PROTECT Act

March 30, 2004

Miles W. Kirkpatrick Antitrust Lecture
Thomas E. Kauper will deliver the third annual Miles W. Kirkpatrick Antitrust Lecture, "Section Two of the Sherman Act: The Search for Standards"
4:30pm
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor
A reception will follow

March 26, 2004

Symposium on the Constitution of Europe
2:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Gewirz Student Center , 12th Floor

March 25 , 2004

Panel Discussion on Military Detention of Enemy Combatants: Exercise of Civil Defense or Violation of Civil Liberties?
8:00 p.m.
Wolf Blitzer, CNN, will moderate this annual symposium, sponsored by Georgetown Law Center 's Office of Admission's Student Ambassadors Program. Panelists include Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), and David Rivkin, former legal advisor to President Bush.

March 25 , 2004

Admissions Open House
Please contact the Office of Admissions at (202)662-9015.

March 24, 2004 Hart Lecture
Twenty-Fourth Annual Philip A. Hart Memorial Lecture
4:00 p.m.
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor
Speaker: The Honorable Guido Calabresi, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law and Professional Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School
March 24, 2004 Lecture: "The Global Battle Against Terror: The Middle East, Europe and Asia"
11:30 a.m.
Georgetown University Law Center        
McDonough Hall, Room 337  
March 23, 2004 International Law Career Panel
Panelists TBA
11:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Room 164, McDonough Hall
March 23, 2004 "Nuclear Proliferation: the Players, the Politics, and the Perils," 
Sponsored by the International Law Society
3:30pm
Moot Court
featuring:
- Dean Robert Galluci, Dean of Georgetown's School of Foreign Service, former Deputy Executive Chairman of UNSCOM overseeing the disarmament of Iraq, and State Department Special Envoy on the threat of proliferation of ballistic missiles and we apons of mass destruction
- Rose Gottemoeller, Senior Associate, Russian and Eurasian Program &
Global Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace;
former Deputy Undersecretary for Defense, Nuclear Nonproliferation, U.S.
Department of Energy.
- Daryl Kimball, Executive Director, Arms Control Association
- Michael Levi, Science and Technology Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies,
Brookings Institution
March 22, 2004 International Law Career Panel
Panelists TBA
11:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Room 100, McDonough Hall
March 18, 2004 Professor David Cole will speak at the Women’s National Domestic Club
1526 New Hampshire Ave, NW
6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
$19/members; $25/non-members
March   11- 12, 2004 Corporate Counsel Institute
Please contact the Continuing Legal Education Office at (202)662-9890
for times and locations.
March 8 -12, 2004 Vietnam/WTO Training Sessions
Please contact the International and Graduate Programs office at
(202)662-9036 for additional information.
March 2, 2004 Sun Microsystems Presentation
11:30 a.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor
Information session on legal internship programs with Sun Microsystems.
For additional information, please contact the Office of Career Services
at (202) 662-9300.
February 26 -27, 2004

Conference on Sovereign Debt
For times and locations please contact the International and Graduate Programs Office at (202)662-9036.

February 25, 2004 Former CIA Director James Woolsey to Discuss War on Terror
7:00 p.m.
Moot Courtroom in McDonough Hall (600 New Jersey Ave, NW)
February 24, 2004 New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer to Discuss New Banking
Regulations
3:30 p.m.
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor
February 24, 2004 Poverty Journal Symposium on Poverty Law and Citizenship Rights
6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Gewirz, 12th Floor
February 23, 2004 Journal of Legal Ethics Symposium featuring ABA President Dennis Archer
9:15 a.m.
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor
February 20, 2004 Asian Pacific American Law Students Association Lunar New Year Celebration
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor
February 19, 2004 Humane Slaughter Act Symposium
Sponsored by the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund
3:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Moot Courtroom Lobby
February 19, 2004 What We Can't Know: The Return of the Natural Law
Sponsored by the Christian Legal Society
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Room 206 McDonough Hall
Lecture given by J. Budziszewski, associate professor of government and philosophy at the University of Texas , Austin .
February 11, 2004 Breakfast with the Ambassador
8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Room 588, McDonough Hall
Featured Guest: Esteban Tomic , Chile 's Ambassador to the Organization of American States
February 10, 2004

Criminal Justice Reform: Examining Racial Injustices
Confirmed Panelists are George Kendall, formerly of NAACP Legal Defense Fund; Marc Mauer, The Sentencing Project and; Alfreda Robinson, Families Against Mandatory Minimums.
Sponsored by the American Constitution Society
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor

February 7, 2004 LSAT Examination
7:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
For additional information, please contact the Office of Admissions at (202)662-9015.
January 29, 2004 Early Action Reception
Please call Andrea Tazioli in the Office of Admissions for additional
information (202)662-9021.
January 28, 2004 Community Tax and Training
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Room 202 McDonough Hall
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., Room 207
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., Room 200
Members of Community Tax Aide, the nation's largest, free volunteer-run
tax counseling and preparation service, will be available to train
interested volunteers. Please contact the OPICS office for additional
information
January 27, 2004 Journal of Legal Ethics Symposium: Access to Justice
6:00 p.m.
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor
The Law Center chapter of the Federalist Society will honor former
attorney general Richard Thornburgh with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
January 24 , 2004 Community Tax and Training
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Room 202 McDonough Hall
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., Room 207
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., Room 200
Members of Community Tax Aide, the nation's largest, free volunteer-run
tax counseling and preparation service, will be available to train
interested volunteers. Please contact the OPICS office for additional
information
January 21, 2004 Being Liberal at a Large Law Firm
6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Gewirz 12th Floor
Panel discussion; reception to follow
For additional information, please contact the Law Center chapter of
the American Constitution Society at (202) 288-3925.
January 4, 2004 Women's Rights and Constitutional Reform in Iraq and Afghanistan
6:30 p.m.
Panel discussion on women's rights and constitutional reforms in Iraq
and Afghanistan
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor
Free and open to the public
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December 4, 2003 Colloquium on Intellectual Property & Technology Law:
3:30 p.m.
Faculty Lounge
Jim Speta (associate professor Northwestern University School of Law) will present: "The Missing Piece of the 1996 Telecommunications Act: Accelerating Local Competition."
November 24, 2003 Red Cross Blood Drive
12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor
November 24, 2003 Choice: Something to be Thankful For (panel discussion)
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Room 207, McDonough Hall
November 21, 2003 Sustainable Energy Forum
5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Room 200, McDonough Hall
Discussion of presidential candidates’ positions on sustainable energy
Free and open to the public
November 19, 2003

Hate Crimes Panel
4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Panel discussion on the affect of hate crimes on the Asian Pacific American Community
Room 141, McDonough Hall

November 18, 2003

Admissions symposium with panelists discussing current events in the law
For more information, contact  Admissions office (202) 662-9015 for times and locations.

November 14, 2003

White Collar Crime Competition
9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
For additional information, contact the Barristers' Council at (202) 662-9271

November 13, 2003

Kaiser Lecture featuring Peter J. Hurtgen, Director of Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
4:00 p.m.
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor

November 12, 2003

Lawyers of Vision Speaker Series presents: David Stern, Director of Equal Justice Works
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor

November 11, 2003

Presentation on the Convention Against Torture
4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Room 202, McDonough Hall
Presenter Nadia Yakoob, former editor-in-chief of the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal and current immigration law practitioner, will present research findings on the Convention Against Torture.

November 7, 2003 Miami WTO Reunion Panel Discussion
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor
November 7, 2003 Sloan Conference
8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Philip A. Hart Moot Court Room
Rebecca Cady   (202) 662-9630
November 6, 2003 Sloan Conference
10:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Philip A. Hart Moot Court Room
6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Gewirz Student Center , 12th Floor (reception)
Rebecca Cady   (202) 662-9630
November 5, 2003 Center for the Advancement of the Rule Of Law in the Americas (CAROLA)
presents Breakfast with the Ambassador - featuring The Hon. Raul
Gangotena-Rivadeneira, Ambassador of Ecuador
8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Room 344, McDonough Hall (Law Center Campus)
October 29, 2003

Ryan Lecture
4:00 p.m.
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor
Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean of Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton will discuss "The New World Order."

October 27, 2003 Jane Stromseth Book Party
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
EBW Law Library, 5th Floor Atrium
October 25, 2003

Annual John M. Olin Law and Economics Conference
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor
For more information, contact Professor Warren Schwartz schwarwf@law.georgetown.edu

World of Choices
Annual career fair with alumni
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
McDonough Hall, Philip A. Hart Moot Court Room
For more information, contact the Office of Career Services (202) 662-9300

October 23, 2003 Colloquium on Intellectual Property & Technology Law
3:30 p.m.
Faculty lounge, McDonough Hall
Joseph P. Liu (assistant professor at Boston College Law School) will
present: "Rationalizing Trademark Defenses."
October 20, 2003

Mark Tushnet Book Party
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
EBW Law Library, 5th Floor Atrium

October 17-19, 2003

Law Center Reunion Weekend
Call the office of Alumni Affairs for additional information at (202) 662-9500.

October 14, 2003

Jewish Law Students Association presents Ishmael Khaldi
5:47 p.m. - 7:45 p.m.
Room 110, McDonough Hall
Khaldi will discuss his experience as a member of both the nomadic Bedouin community and as a member of Israeli society.

October 14, 2003

American Constitution Society presents Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL)
6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Philip A. Hart Moot Court Auditorium

October 14, 2003

Center for the Advancement of the Rule of Law in the Americas Lecture (CAROLA)
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor
Speaker: Richard Clayton, Queens Counsel
presents "Environmental and Constitutional law in the Commonwealth:
Landmark Privy Council Case to Determine the Fate of Rainforest Valley."

October 10, 2003

Advanced Commercial Leasing Institute Board Meeting
11:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor
For additional information, contact Margaret Wheat at (202) 662-9892

October 4, 2003 Thurgood Marshall Academy Law Day
9:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor
Attorneys and law students teach street law curriculum to 9 th graders from the Thurgood Marshall charter school, monthly event
October 4, 2003 LSAT
7:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
For more information, contact Andrea Tazioli at (202) 662-9021
October 1, 2003 Gun Control Panel
4:00 p.m.
Room 203, McDonough Hall
Sponsored by the American Constitution Society
Panel on gun control laws
September 30 , 2003 Professors David Cole and Viet Dinh Discuss Enemy Aliens
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Philip A. Hart Moot Court Room
September 26, 2003 Supreme Court Press Briefing
8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor
Briefing for press on next term's Supreme Court cases.
September 24, 2003 "Insult to Injury: Rethinking Our Responses to Intimate Abuse"
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor
Sponsored by the Women's Legal Alliance
Author Linda Mills will discuss her domestic violence research.
September 8, 2003 Corporate Counsel Institute Board Meeting
11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor
For more information, contact CLE office for additional information (202) 662-9890.
September 4, 2003 Supreme Court Institute: Campaign Finance Reform
3:00 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Gewirz Student Center, 12 th Floor (Law Center campus)
For more information, contact  Josh Hsu (202) 662-9177
August 26, 2003 Summer Faculty Workshop Presentation:
Mark Tushnet, "The Rehnquist Court"
12:00 p.m.to 1:30 p.m.
McDonough Hall Room 210
Auguat 21 -23 , 2003 National Institute for the Trial Advocacy: Depositions
8:00 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Moot Court Auditorium, McDonough Hall ( Law Center campus)
This course is currently full, but you may be added to the wait list.
For more information, contact 1-800-225-6482 to register for this program.
August 12, 2003 Summer Faculty Workshop Presentation:
Erin Kidwell, "British-American comparative legal history"
12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
McDonough Hall Room 210
August 5, 2003

Summer Faculty Workshop Presentation:
Julie Ross, "RICO and copyright infringement"
12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
McDonough Hall Room 210
   

Revised November 17, 2009 (SPR)