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 113

Issue

Date

Apr. 2025

Judicial Accountability

by Anya Bernstein

Judicial decisions are moving ever more authority over regulatory statutes away from agencies and to courts instead. One justification offered for this power transfer: agencies lack the accountability of courts. […]

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Gendered Liberty

by Laura Portuondo

Individual liberty is ascendant in constitutional law, but only for some. First Amendment doctrine has increasingly protected liberty interests in conduct linked to conscientious identity, as exemplified by newly successful […]

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Micro-Costs

by Kiel Brennan-Marquez & Brendan S. Maher

The modern world is filled with tiny attentional impositions (cognitive-asks) that inflict small mental burdens (micro-costs) on virtually everyone, everywhere, all the time. Micro-costs make life worse, and everybody knows […]

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The Shadow Defendants

by Mariam A. Hinds

Although the overrepresentation of men, specifically Black men and men of color, in the criminal legal system is well documented, the people who support these men, especially women, have garnered […]

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The Critical Nature of Sunset Provisions in National Security Legislation

by Benjamin Lauenroth

In the wake of the recent reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA), the role of temporary legislation in the national security sphere is […]

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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.

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.