With more than two hundred full-time professors, and adjuncts recruited from the ranks of elite legal practice, Georgetown Law has one of the largest law faculties in the nation.
Our professors represent an extraordinary range of scholarly achievement. Preeminent in the fields of constitutional, international, and tax law, as well as clinical legal education, Georgetown faculty have also made their mark in administrative law, antitrust, law and economics, civil rights, corporate law and securities regulation, commercial law, criminal law, environmental law, health law, intellectual property, jurisprudence, legal history, litigation, national security law, and privacy and technology law.
But our faculty are not just of the academy; they are also of the world. They practice what they teach, writing briefs, arguing cases, and advising on some of the greatest legal issues of the day. Many have served in the highest levels of government. Though their experiences and backgrounds are diverse, Georgetown faculty are united by a commitment to providing an intellectually exciting, rigorous, and practical education for their students.
When it came to the practical possibility of the U.S. government paying reparations to Black Americans in response to the enduring harms of slavery and racism, Professor and Georgetown Law alumna Dorothy Brown, L’83, once considered herself a skeptic.
M. Elizabeth Magill, the former dean of Stanford Law School, provost of the University of Virginia and president of the University of Pennsylvania, has been named the executive vice president and dean of Georgetown Law.
In his new book “The Nation at Sea,” Professor Arlyck argues that the federal courts played a decisive — and largely overlooked — role in establishing United States sovereignty and shaping foreign relations in the decades following the nation’s founding.