M. Elizabeth Magill, the new dean of Georgetown Law, discusses her path to becoming a lawyer and a professor, her approach to leadership and what she loves about living in Washington, D.C.
More than 200 of the 300 students participating this year in Georgetown Law’s 17 legal clinics pledged to uphold the highest levels of honesty, integrity and professional conduct at Georgetown Law’s third annual student attorney oath ceremony on Aug. 26.
Some 600 new J.D. students and 275 LL.M. students began their Georgetown Law journeys August 18 at Orientation, which offered welcome activities, classroom introductions, city tours and social gatherings for incoming students as they arrived on campus.
WASHINGTON: Georgetown Law announced today that Justin Hansford, L’07, Executive Director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at Howard University and one of the nation’s leading advocates for racial justice, has been named the 2026–2027…
It’s been a Georgetown Law tradition since 2013: at the end of each academic year, editors of the school’s flagship legal journal come together with their alumni predecessors for a festive dinner and an address by a prominent figure in the legal world. On May 5, the banquet’s featured guest was the Hon. James E. Boasberg, chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
This summer, two distinguished legal scholars joined the Georgetown Law faculty as full professors: Cathy Hwang, whose teaching and research focus on business law, and Jayesh Rathod, an immigration law expert who is the new co-faculty director of the…
Having come of age during the Warren Court and served as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, Professor Louis Michael Seidman long believed in the promise of a progressive judiciary.
On August 1, M. Elizabeth “Liz” Magill became the dean of Georgetown Law, taking the reins at the nation’s largest law school.
Top legal advocates, scholars and journalists convened at Georgetown Law July 1 to analyze the Supreme Court’s 2025-26 term and the far-reaching impact of decisions on voting rights, birthright citizenship, presidential power and more.
A leading Washington, D.C. antitrust attorney and alumnus has made a gift to Georgetown Law to fund an endowed professorship in antitrust law.
Georgetown Law congratulates the seven members of its most recent graduating class who have been awarded the legal profession’s most prestigious public interest fellowships.