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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
5
Date
May. 2025

The New Sexual Deviancy

by Jordan Blair Woods
An unprecedented wave of legislation targeting LGBTQ+ communities has swept across the country in recent years. The scope of this legislation is vast, targeting LGBTQ+ people in key areas such […]
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A Faster Way to Yes: Re-Balancing American Asylum Procedures

by Michael Kagan
The United States asylum system, like many other asylum systems, is under immense pressure to process asylum applications faster. The primary response to this pressure is negative, namely to deny […]
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The Sheriff’s Constitution

by Farhang Heydari
The county sheriff is unique among our nation’s law enforcers, with an ancient pedigree, elected status, and special protections as a state constitutional officer. But these factors combine to cause […]
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Renters’ Tax Credits

by Michelle D. Layser
America is facing an affordable housing crisis that current policies have failed to mitigate. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, half of American tenants were rent burdened, paying more than one-third […]
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Selective Enforcement

by Kristelia García
Private rights holders frequently engage in selective enforcement—that is, they elect to enforce against some wrongdoers, but not against others, under different, or even similar, circumstances. The conventional wisdom assumes […]
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“There Are [Disabled] Black People in the Future”: Afrofuturism & Disability Law

by Tinesha C. Zandamela
Afrofuturism celebrates—and encourages—imagination. This Note exists to foster imagination, focusing on Blackness and disability from an Afrofuturist lens and discussing what a “glorious future” could look like for Black disabled […]
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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.

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.