Prosecutor General of Ukraine Andriy Kostin took part in an event highlighting the Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group for Ukraine, a novel international justice initiative in which Georgetown Law's Center on National Security is playing a key role.
Georgetown Law Professor Adam Levitin told Congress that a “perverse” provision of current bankruptcy law will further enrich the billionaire Sackler family that owns the company most associated with the opioid crisis. In testimony at a House Judiciary…
Minority-owned banks have long played an outsized role in providing financial services to traditionally underserved communities, particularly access to credit.
Install more bike racks on campus. Give discounts to students who bring their own mugs. Upgrade outdated heating and lighting systems, replace old windows, and use solar panels. Promote sustainability on campus and with other departments and law schools.
For Georgetown Law Professor Chris Brummer, the nation’s glaring lack of Black financial regulators is tied directly to the long history of economic injustice. In his keynote address at the Security and Exchange Commission's Black History Month Celebration…
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…
