Consumer Protection, Social Welfare, and Employment
The Georgetown Law faculty includes the country’s leading authorities in consumer protection law, consumer finance, labor law, and the legal aspects of social welfare.
Our faculty bring to the classroom and to their scholarship experience working in high-ranking federal government posts, including at the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection and Bureau of Economics, the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, and the Department of Health and Human Services. No other law school faculty features such depth and breadth of experience.
Georgetown Law scholarship in the area of consumer protection law includes work on consumer finance regulation, the U.S. housing market bubble, food and drug law, and tobacco products regulation. Their leading contributions in social welfare law include best-selling books on social welfare policy, a new affirmative action framework, funding anti-poverty programs, and policies to serve disadvantaged youth.
Faculty members have argued numerous labor law cases before the Supreme Court, and its scholarship addresses a range of employment law issues such as wage theft litigation, rights of disabled workers, and workplace discrimination.
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Experiential Opportunities
Center on Poverty & Inequality
The Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality is a research center that generates policy solutions to improve the lives of people experiencing poverty in the United States.
Workers' Rights Institute
The Workers’ Rights Institute conducts research, education, and advocacy to support and expand legal protections, collective self-determination, and organizing for traditionally underserved and diverse populations of low-income workers.
Domestic Violence Clinic
Students in the Domestic Violence Clinic (DVC) represent victims of intimate abuse in civil protection order (CPO) cases in the D.C. Superior Court.
Communications & Technology Law Clinic (IPR)
The Communications & Technology Law Clinic works on cases involving the intersection of law, technology, and social justice.
Social Enterprise and Nonprofit Law Clinic
The Social Enterprise & Nonprofit Law Clinic offers free corporate and transactional legal services to social enterprises, including nonprofit organizations, cooperative associations, and select small businesses in the Washington Metropolitan Area.
Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy
The Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy is the nation’s premier law journal on poverty issues.
Making Them Whole: Georgetown Law’s Newest Clinic Represents WorkersÂ
The Civil Justice Clinic is Georgetown Law’s newest clinic, joining a movement that began in the early 1970s, when the Law Center became one of the nation’s first schools to create opportunities for students to gain practical experience representing real clients.
