The best part of law school orientation? For Alex Michie, it was as simple as waiting for the bus, where he met new classmates who were also headed across town to Georgetown University’s Hilltop campus for the annual Faculty Moot Court.
For Professor Randy Barnett, the highlights of his career — trying felony cases as a Cook County prosecutor, arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court and even playing an attorney in a science fiction film — make up what he calls an “after-the-fact bucket list.”
A first-generation college graduate, Aidan Davis, B'24, F'24, M.P.P., L'28, originally considered joining the military and becoming an engineer after high school. But a junior-year visit to his New Jersey high school from Andy Cornblatt, Georgetown Law’s dean of admissions, changed his mind.
WASHINGTON — Renowned Liberian human rights lawyer and environmental advocate Alfred Lahai Brownell, Sr. has joined Georgetown Law as this academic year’s Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Chair in Human Rights. “Georgetown Law is thrilled to welcome Alfred…
Some 300 students participating this year in Georgetown Law’s 17 legal clinics pledged to uphold the highest levels of honesty, integrity and professional conduct — and to advocate “competently, zealously and diligently” on behalf of their clients at Georgetown Law’s first-ever student attorney oath ceremony on Wednesday, Aug. 28.
The best part of law school orientation?
As a new academic year begins, we are pleased to introduce seven new members of the Georgetown Law faculty: two joining us as full professors, three in earlier stages of their teaching careers and two who are already well known on campus, but have now officially joined the tenure track faculty.
“The idea was not to just take a case, but change the law.” - Professor Brian Wolfman, Appellate Immersion Clinic
The Center for Transnational Legal Studies (CTLS) in London, England is a unique institution for students and scholars interested in international, comparative and transnational law. Georgetown Law is one of the founding members of what is now a 21-member…
Professor Emeritus Sherman L. Cohn, F’54, L’57, L’60, the longest-serving member of the Georgetown faculty and a “triple Hoya” with three Georgetown University degrees, died on August 5.
Before coming to Georgetown Law, Zach Rosenfeld, L'25, interned for a U.S. Senator and got a peek at how lawmaking and legal practice overlap on Capitol Hill.