M. Elizabeth Magill, the former dean of Stanford Law School, provost of the University of Virginia and president of the University of Pennsylvania, has been named the executive vice president and dean of Georgetown Law.
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.
For constitutional law scholar and Anne Fleming Research Professor Stephanie Barclay, constitutional rights are at the heart of the tension between judicial power and democratic governance.
Marilyn Tucker, a longtime Georgetown Law employee who retired in 2021, died on June 10, 2026.
Since 2017, the landmark NFL Concussion Settlement has awarded more than $1.6 billion in compensation to former National Football League (NFL) players and their families for the effects of football-related brain injuries. Last semester at Georgetown Law, students learned firsthand from the legal practitioners behind the historic agreement.
Since the second Trump administration took office in early 2025, trade law has been on a wild ride.
More than 1,000 spring graduates — including some 688 J.D. candidates, 373 LL.M. and 5 S.J.D. candidates — gathered with family and friends to celebrate commencement on Georgetown University’s historic Hilltop campus on Sunday, May 17.
With more than 2,500 students, faculty and staff working across a campus that spans three city blocks, the Georgetown Law community is vibrant and vast, offering abundant opportunities for learning and hands-on experience in the nation’s capital.
Georgetown Law professor David Cole, the Honorable George J. Mitchell Professor in Law and Public Policy, will be the featured speaker at the Law Center’s 2026 commencement ceremony on May 17.