More than 1,100 spring graduates gathered on Georgetown University’s historic Hilltop campus to celebrate commencement.
The 37th annual Home Court charity basketball game, held March 28 at the Gonzaga College High School gym, was a fast-paced match between students, faculty and staff from Georgetown Law (the Hoya Lawyas) and from the George Washington University Law School…
On March 4, Georgetown Law's Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP), Law Forward and Stafford Rosenbaum LLP announced a historic settlement in first-of-its-kind litigation against participants in a fraudulent electors scheme intended to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
For most law students, a chance to see a Supreme Court argument live and in person is thrilling. But the chance to see two professors from your own school argue opposing sides of a case is an even rarer treat.
Georgetown Law faculty are no strangers to the U.S. Supreme Court. In any given year, you can find our professors as authors of briefs, as amici and as oral advocates. But it’s never happened that the advocates on both sides of a case were both Georgetown Law faculty members… until now.
WASHINGTON - The Georgetown Center for the Constitution is pleased to announce that Jack M. Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School, has been awarded the Thomas M. Cooley Book Prize of $50,000 for his…
A finalist from the TV show “Survivor,” a family caregiving attorney, an award-winning documentarian and a divorce financial analyst represented Georgetown Law at the Georgetown University Women’s Forum on Feb. 23, which brought together some 325 guests and speakers to celebrate women graduates and strengthen the alumnae community.
The Georgetown Law community gathered on Feb. 28 to celebrate the achievements of five faculty members who were awarded named professorships.
As a law student in the early 1990s, documentary filmmaker Dawn Porter, L’93, walked past the Supreme Court every day on her way to campus.
“We have people who have traveled with the president on Air Force One, people who have been in the intelligence community – there's just a million different people who have had serious careers, and now they're in class with you.”- Maurice Roberson, L’25
"The sentence is not grossly disproportionate to the crime committed." That was the argument guiding Camryn Simmons, L'26, as she approached the bench for a mock terrorist extradition hearing in which she represented the United States before the European Court of Human Rights. Simmons was arguing in favor of the extradition of a suspected terrorist facing the possibility of a life sentence without parole — an argument complicated not only by the intricacies of international human rights law, but also by the fact that the hypothetical suspect was 19 years old and pregnant.
