Sotomayor joined members of the Georgetown Law community for a wide-ranging conversation with Dean Treanor about pressing issues facing the judiciary today,
As part of its continuing efforts to support graduates seeking careers in public service, Georgetown Law this spring launched a new Capitol Hill Fellowship Program for recent graduates who find positions in Congressional offices.
On March 7, the Georgetown Law community celebrated the achievements of five faculty members who have been awarded named professorships and chairs.
Simone Woung, L’97, Georgetown Law Assistant Dean and Registrar, passed away on March 17 after a brief illness.
Some ninety professors, activists, students, lawyers and other stakeholders from across the country gathered at Georgetown Law March 3 for a day-long symposium titled “Promoting Justice: Advancing Racial Equity through Student Practice in Legal Clinics…
Six former staffers of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol reunited at Georgetown Law last week to discuss their work investigating the role domestic extremist groups played – on the day of January 6, 2021, in the planning beforehand and in the two years since.
Professor Itai Grinberg’s last two years have been busy ones, full of travel to international capitals, seven-day work weeks and 16-hour days of meetings and negotiations. But in the end, he helped achieve a top item on the United States’ international economic agenda: a first-ever global minimum corporate tax (GMT).
It’s not often that a Congressional oversight committee hearing can draw the same number of TV viewers as a prime-time football game. But last October, some 20 million people tuned into the first public hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.
While visiting Washington this week, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Andriy Kostin, stopped at Georgetown Law to take part in an event highlighting the efforts of the Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group for Ukraine (ACA), an international justice initiative established last year by the United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom to support Ukraine’s efforts to document and prosecute war crimes and other atrocities perpetrated against its citizens.
The first year of law school is famously dedicated to mastering legal doctrine and distinguishing fact patterns in casebooks – from contracts to torts to civil procedure. While the work is foundational, it’s still a few degrees of separation from real-world law. But at Georgetown Law, every January, 1L students have the chance to spend a few days getting a sneak peek at law as it’s actually practiced.
Last fall, Georgetown Law welcomed lawyer and workplace diversity expert Anjali Bindra Patel to lead the Office of Equity and Inclusion (OEI). First established in 2016, OEI champions initiatives to help build and support a Law Center community where…