As 2025 draws to a close, we’re looking back at the past year at Georgetown Law, from headline-grabbing guest speakers and alumni achievements to the work of students and faculty in clinics, courts and beyond.
One week into the new year, Georgetown Law students sat in a rearranged classroom, in two concentric circles. In the center, the flame of a small candle flickered on the floor, surrounded by a wooden elephant from India, a frisbee, a running shoe, a ring from Rwanda made from melted down padlocks, a family photo and a watch.
On the wall of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, a photo of the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall is one of the first images Georgetown Law 1L students see as they get in the elevator to make the trip “back in time.”
It’s 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday of Orientation Week, and Georgetown Law Dean William M. Treanor is in Room 202 of McDonough Hall, along with a group of Section 2 1L students ready to volunteer at D.C. Central Kitchen as part of the Orientation Week service projects.
In 2018, women lawyers working in national security still might find themselves the only woman in the room. With a deep bench of national security faculty, alumnae and students, Georgetown Law is transforming that dynamic. On Saturday, March 3, at…
On Friday, April 6, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg visited Georgetown Law to celebrate a new lecture series named in her honor.
When now-veteran Ashley Nicolas (L’19) deployed to Kandahar, Afghanistan, as an active duty U.S. Army Intelligence Officer not long after graduating from West Point in 2009, she served as a Female Engagement Team Leader — just before the combat exclusion…
Georgetown Law’s first-year J.D. class is among the best and the brightest ever seen on our campus — with a 3.79 grade point average, the highest ever. The class also has a strong commitment to public service, with experience in teaching, the Peace…
Not even a much-anticipated eclipse could shadow the enthusiasm of Georgetown Law students, faculty and staff during Orientation Week 2017. And as the 80s song goes, they even wore shades. More than 1000 new students — including 580 J.D., 567 graduate/LL…
Georgetown Law's Office of Admissions now accepts the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) in addition to or in place of the Law School Admission Test (LSAT). You would like to apply to law school, but for whatever reason, the Law School Admission Test (LSAT)…
Georgetown Law welcomed more than one thousand new alumni — 637 J.D.s, 538 LL.M.s and one S.J.D. — on Sunday, May 21, as graduates and their families, faculty, staff and administrators gathered on Georgetown University’s Healy Lawn for Commencement 2017. The weather cooperated, the mood was joyous and everyone could reflect on what the day meant for them.