The Georgetown Law Journal

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 114

Issue

Date

Nov. 2025

Dangerousness & the Undocumented

by Pratheepan Gulasekaram

The Supreme Court’s most recent Second Amendment opinion, United States v. Rahimi, centers the question of dangerousness in right to bear arms challenges. There, the Court upheld 18 U.S.C. § […]

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The World Court’s Enforcement Dilemma — And How to Solve It

by Cindy Garay, Oona A. Hathaway, and Kevin Zhang

The United Nations (UN) was established “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.” Its judicial organ, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), sometimes called the “World Court,” is […]

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Large Language Models for Legal Interpretation? Don’t Take Their Word for It

by Brandon Waldon, Nathan Schneider, Ethan Wilcox, Amir Zeldes, and Kevin Tobia

Recent breakthroughs in statistical language modeling have impacted countless domains, including the law. Chatbot applications such as ChatGPT, Claude, and DeepSeek—which incorporate “large” neural network-based language models (LLMs) trained on […]

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An Ineffective State of Justice: Barriers to Ineffective- Assistance-of-Counsel Claims in State and Federal Courts

by Patrick S. Finneran

Criminal trials are probably the most high-stakes events that occur in courtrooms across the United States. Despite their importance, however, errors are inevitable. Although many errors can be corrected on […]

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Mariah Johnson receives the Volume 112 Breonna Taylor Student Note Prize

July 19, 2024

The Georgetown Law Journal is pleased to announce that Mariah Johnson is the winner of the Volume 112 Student Notes Contest, Afrofuturism and the Law, for her Note, “Beyond an 'Average Audience': Critical Race IP as a Justification for De Minimis Music Samples.” Johnson's Note tackles a circuit split on the de minimis exception in music sampling through the Critical Race IP framework to correct the law’s historically disproportionate impact on Black artists. It is now available online.

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.

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.