Sotomayor joined members of the Georgetown Law community for a wide-ranging conversation with Dean Treanor about pressing issues facing the judiciary today,
On June 27, the Pat Tillman Foundation named Karim Ibrahim, L’26, to its 2024 class of Tillman Scholars. Ibrahim, a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, is among 60 armed forces members, veterans and military spouses selected this year from a pool of nearly…
On June 18, Georgetown Law’s Institute of International Economic Law (IIEL) partnered with the National Bankers Association (NBA), an organization representing minority-owned financial institutions, and with the Visa Economic Empowerment Institute (VEEI)…
After seven years in leadership at his law school alma mater, Georgetown Law Chief Operating Officer David Mao, L’93, will be taking a new position this summer, as the 12th Librarian of the Supreme Court of the United States. He will be the first Asian…
On June 1, Georgetown Law hosted a festive celebration honoring the 50th anniversary of its Juvenile Justice Clinic. The Clinic was not only one of the first at the Law Center, but has also been a pioneer in clinical legal education in the United States…
The morning before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson woke up to a flurry of messages.
It was the office of the Ukrainian prosecutor general.
“Your formal education may end today, but you are not done learning,” urged Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, L’79, H’24, in his address to Georgetown Law’s class of 2024. More than 1,100 spring graduates — including 641 J.D. candidates as well as 516 master of laws and 8 doctor of juridical science candidates — gathered on Georgetown University’s historic Hilltop campus to celebrate commencement on Sunday, May 19.
Some 1,200 Georgetown Law students celebrated commencement on Sunday, May 19, joining the community of more than 51,000 Law Center alumni around the world. Below, nine J.D. and LL.M. graduates reflect on their time on campus and share their future plans — which span environmental law, electoral politics, public service and more.
Identical triplets Nicholas, Zachary and Benjamin Osborne, G'20, L'24, remember how they felt when they first found out they had been admitted to Georgetown Law. "When we got the acceptance letter, it was saying welcome home," Nicholas says. Having moved to Washington, D.C. to earn master's degrees in economics from Georgetown in 2020 and enjoyed their first round as Hoyas, the 29-year-old North Carolina natives say that getting into the Law Center was the sign they needed that the nation’s capital had become home.
Philip Hirschkop, L’64, will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the Georgetown Law commencement on Sunday, May 19. In the six decades since his graduation, Hirschkop has had a storied career in civil rights law, but he is best known for one…
Former United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch called upon students, alumni and faculty to remember the power of the law to protect people and secure justice at The Georgetown Law Journal’s 11th annual alumni banquet on April 24. Living up to the ideals of justice, she said, “is our highest and best purpose as lawyers — and in my view, as citizens.”