{"id":121,"date":"2019-12-17T02:21:35","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T02:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/150\/?page_id=121"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:16:08","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/150\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A Legacy of Excellence, Justice, and Service<\/h2>\n<p>There is so much to be proud of in our history \u2014 from our earliest days of making law school accessible to government workers in the nation\u2019s capital, to our evolution into a global leader in legal education grounded in Jesuit principles.<\/p>\n<p>We also have much to celebrate about where we are today \u2014 from providing exceptional students of diverse backgrounds an unrivaled legal education in the nation\u2019s capital, to the profound impact our graduates, faculty, clinics, and centers and institutes are making in the community, the nation, and around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward, we plan to continue expanding scholarship and academic programs that support social justice and broaden access to a preeminent legal education in the U.S. capital.<\/p>\n<p>There are many ways to get involved in the 150th Anniversary celebrations. You can show your support by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/150\/support-the-anniversary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"cx_external_link\"><span class=\"cx_external_hyperlink\">making a contribution<\/span><span class=\"visually_hide\">(This link opens in a new tab)<\/span><span class=\"cx_external_icon\"><\/span><\/a> in honor of our 150th Anniversary. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/150\/timeline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"cx_external_link\"><span class=\"cx_external_hyperlink\">Explore the interactive timeline<\/span><span class=\"visually_hide\">(This link opens in a new tab)<\/span><span class=\"cx_external_icon\"><\/span><\/a> of Georgetown Law&#8217;s history. Mark the Anniversary by attending a virtual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/150\/events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"cx_external_link\"><span class=\"cx_external_hyperlink\">event<\/span><span class=\"visually_hide\">(This link opens in a new tab)<\/span><span class=\"cx_external_icon\"><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Georgetown Law\u2019s Communications team has created a toolkit of visual and written materials for staff and faculty to use. If you are a Georgetown community member, we encourage you to log in to your Georgetown Google account, and use these <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/1ev8RvbhFIAQcpMKb0_nXrdwyUzpyAToG\">150th-branded materials<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For questions about the 150th Anniversary&#8217;s website, programming, or materials, please contact William Bailey, Senior Director of Campaign Management and Special Initiatives, at (202) 662-9671 or William.Bailey@georgetown.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Legacy of Excellence, Justice, and Service There is so much to be proud of in our history \u2014 from our earliest days of making law school accessible to government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4058,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-121","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4058"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3465,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121\/revisions\/3465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}