Become a Student Fellow

The Georgetown Center for the Constitution affords law student the opportunity to join the Student Fellows Program.

The Student Fellows Program takes place each Fall semester at Georgetown Law. The program aims to connect Georgetown Law students with the nation’s leading experts on constitutional law. The program consists of lunchtime conversations followed by Q&A sessions with our distinguished guests. As a qualifying member of the Student Fellows Program, each Fellow will receive a special lifetime gift from the Center and the ability to indicate the qualification on your resume.

To become a Student Fellow, attend at least four Center-sponsored events in the Fall semester. Events are posted on our website, the OSL broadcast, and through our mailing list. To receive credit for your attendance, please complete the sign-in sheet.

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Fall 2025 Programming

Book Launch: The Heritage Guide to the Constitution

• Judge Neomi Rao (D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge)
• John Malcolm (Vice President, Institute for Constitutional Government at the Heritage Foundation)
• Josh Blackman (Professor of Law and Centennial Chair of Constitutional Law at South Texas College of Law, Houston)
• Randy Barnett (Patrick Hotung Professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown Law & Faculty Director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution)
• Stephanie Barclay (Professor of Law at Georgetown Law & Faculty Co-Director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution)

Wednesday, September 17th | 3:30 p.m.

Are We All Still Originalists Now?

• Ilan Wurman (Julius E. Davis Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota)

Thursday, September 18th | 12:00 pm 

To Trust the People With Arms: The Supreme Court and the Second Amendment

•  Robert J. Cottrol (Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law at GW Law)

Tuesday, September 30th | 12:15 pm

Restoring Reconstruction

• Tyler Lindley (Associate Professor of Law at BYU Law School & Research Fellow at the Georgetown Center for the Constitution)
• Bradley Rebeiro (Associate Professor of Law at BYU Law School & Research Fellow at the Georgetown Center for the Constitution)

Wednesday, October 8th | 12:00 pm

Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation

• Zaakir Tameez (Author & Constitutional Law Scholar)

Thursday, October 16th | 12:15 p.m.

The Scope and Limits of Executive Power

• Eli Nachmany (Associate at Covington & Burling LLP & President of the Federalist Society’s D.C. Young Lawyers Chapter)
• Chad Squitieri (Assistant Professor of Law at Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law)

Wednesday, October 22nd | 12:00 pm

American Police Power Theory: State of the Field

• Christian Gonzalez-Rivera (Associate Professor of Law at St. Thomas University College of Law & Former Visiting Scholar at the Georgetown Center for the Constitution)

Wednesday, November 5th | 12:00 pm

Open Fields Doctrine and the Fourth Amendment

• Laura Donohue (Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and National Security at Georgetown Law, Director of Georgetown’s Center on National Security and the Law, & Director of Georgetown’s Center on Privacy and Technology)

Thursday, November 6th | 12:15 pm 

The Meese Revolution: The Making of a Constitutional Moment

• Steven G. Calabresi (Clayton J. and Henry R. Barber Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law)

Tuesday, December 2nd | 5:30 pm

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