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Announcing: The Georgetown Law Journal Online's Supreme Court Coverage Program

February 25, 2025

The Georgetown Law Journal is thrilled to announce the launch of our Supreme Court Coverage Program, an exciting new initiative under GLJ Online that brings fresh, student-driven perspectives to some of the most consequential legal issues of our time. Leveraging our location in the heart of Washington, D.C., our student authors will attend U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments in person—an opportunity unique to Georgetown Law.

Volume 113
Issue
6
Date
Jun. 2025

The Existential Challenge to the Administrative State

by Blake Emerson
A set of constitutional claims today strikes at the heart of the administrative authority of the federal government. Claims regarding administrative policymaking, interpretation, adjudication, and official removal variously reject agencies’ […]
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De/Reconstructing Delinquency

by Eduardo R. Ferrer
Hundreds of thousands of children are brought under the jurisdiction of delinquency courts every year in the United States. Despite the reality that most children engage in delinquent behavior during […]
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Credentialism at Work

by Jonathan F. Harris
Credentialism is the combination of two related phenomena. First, it is the stacking and use of credentials for their signaling power rather than for the skills and knowledge they convey. […]
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The Right to Exit Religion

by Zalman Rothschild
This Article argues that just over fifty years ago, in Wisconsin v. Yoder, the Supreme Court recognized what might be called a right to exit religion. In this decision, the […]
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“The People” Protects the People of Puerto Rico: Giving Meaning to an Uninterpreted Part of the Tenth Amendment

by Guillermo J. Martínez
The island of Puerto Rico is unique—not just culturally, but politically and constitutionally. In the words of the U.S. Supreme Court, Puerto Rico “occupies a relationship to the United States […]
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Putting Dobbs on Ice: Defending the Right to Destroy Frozen Embryos Using the Takings Clause

by Fiona Fitzgerald
When the U.S. Supreme Court decided Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, calls flooded into fertility centers. People of reproductive age panicked, concerned that new abortion trigger bans could subject […]
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The new top editor of Georgetown’s flagship law journal is ‘undocumented and unafraid’

March 18, 2021

"With every accomplishment she achieves, she turns around and thinks of how to smooth the road for those behind her.”

The Georgetown Law Journal editor in chief Agnes Lee's activism for undocumented immigrants has continued throughout her time at Georgetown University. As an undergraduate, Lee stood out as a leader among students who opposed then-Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson's invitation to be a graduation speaker and also delivered a TEDx talk which revealed her own undocumented status. Lee is believed to be the first openly undocumented student elected to lead a flagship journal at a top U.S. law school. At the Journal's helm, Lee is working to broaden and diversify the ranks of authors and student leaders.

Radiance Campbell wins the Volume 111 GLJ Online Student Notes Contest

February 21, 2023

The Georgetown Law Journal is pleased to announce that Radiance Campbell is the winner of the Volume 111 GLJ Online Student Notes Contest for their Note “Establishing a Right to Public Recreation: State-Based Water Law Reforms to Remedy the Nature Access Gap.” The Note brings awareness to the “nature gap,” or the historic restriction and exclusion of diversity in natural spaces, especially regarding water-based recreation. Campbell’s Note will be available online in the coming weeks.