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.
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.
Marilyn Tucker, a longtime Georgetown Law employee who retired in 2021, died on June 10, 2026.
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.
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.
On April 21, Georgetown Law honored four faculty members for their excellence in teaching and service to the Law Center community at the 2026 Faculty Scholarship and Teaching Awards Luncheon.