In the short time since Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday, volumes have been written about her trailblazing legal career.
WASHINGTON - Georgetown Law is launching the Denny Center for Democratic Capitalism. The new center is dedicated to reconciling the benefits of free market capitalism with the values and expectations of a democratic society. “The Denny Center’s…
The global economic meltdown caused by COVID-19 has redoubled two Georgetown Law professors’ commitment to address a long-simmering problem: massive and growing debt accumulation by many developing countries.
If a hashtag is what it takes to put law and macroeconomics on the academic map, Georgetown Law’s Institute of International Economic Law is all for it.
Professor Anna Gelpern and Professor Adam Levitin met on a bus in Connecticut, going to an academic conference for junior scholars in May 2008. Levitin, a bankruptcy, commercial law, and financial regulation expert, had joined the Georgetown Law faculty the year before. Levitin would later recruit Gelpern, then a law professor at American University, to Georgetown Law in 2013.
In a terrific opportunity for Georgetown students and alumni — as well as Washington’s policymaking and regulatory communities — Steven Maijoor, Europe’s Capital Markets Chief, provided a one-on-one interview with Professor Chris Brummer on the…
Advances in financial technology are changing market and regulatory ecosystems in ways unimaginable a generation ago. These new developments offer exciting opportunities as well as enormous challenges — and Georgetown Law’s Institute of International…
Professor Chris Brummer’s work in fintech is growing almost as exponentially as the field: including research and a “Cryptocurrencies, Initial Coin Offerings and the Law Seminar.” The course was recognized by CoinDesk in its ranking of Georgetown…
Joseph Simons (L’83) continued Georgetown Law’s proud history with the Federal Trade Commission when he was sworn in as FTC chair on May 1, 2018.
“Celebrating Commons Scholarship” was the theme of a conference at Georgetown Law October 5-6, where scholars explored economics, inequality, stewardship, housing, development, the environment and more in the context of commons theory.
Ten years after the worst financial collapse since the Great Depression, our collective memory of the damage caused by the crisis has faded.
