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Georgetown Law Orientation 2022: New Students Advised to ‘Speak, Listen and Learn’
September 1, 2022 Campus NewsHow is a law school class like a symphony orchestra?
More than 1,100 spring graduates gathered on Georgetown University’s historic Hilltop campus to celebrate commencement.
How is a law school class like a symphony orchestra?
At the start of the 2022-3 academic year, we are pleased to introduce the newest members of our faculty.
RISE, a program that helps incoming students from backgrounds underrepresented in law schools and the legal profession thrive at Georgetown Law and later succeed in their legal careers, has a new leader.
This July, legal scholars and practitioners from across the world converged on London to think collaboratively about a crucial and very timely topic: the state and future of constitutional democracy.
Every year, aspiring lawyers with an interest in human rights choose to study at Georgetown Law, whose Human Rights Institute (HRI) is a hub of training, scholarship and expertise.
In recent years, Georgetown Law has dedicated significant resources to faculty scholarship, especially by establishing new faculty chairs and named professorships.
For the two recent Georgetown Law classes whose graduations were disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the “Celebration Weekend” held in early June wasn’t a substitute commencement, nor was it an out-of-sync reunion. It was a welcome chance to revisit campus, reminisce about the not-so-old days – and, of course, raise a glass with good friends.
On April 26, the Georgetown Law faculty convened to celebrate eight of its own, each of whom had been awarded a named professorship since the beginning of 2020.
“Persevere” was a word that came up again and again during Georgetown Law’s 2022 commencement celebrations.
This spring’s Georgetown Law Journal Alumni Banquet was the largest one to date, with over 300 former and current GLJ editors and their guests in attendance.
Learn more about upcoming happenings at Georgetown Law by exploring our events calendar.