Sotomayor joined members of the Georgetown Law community for a wide-ranging conversation with Dean Treanor about pressing issues facing the judiciary today,
Minority-owned banks have long played an outsized role in providing financial services to traditionally underserved communities, particularly access to credit.
Congresswoman and Professor Emerita Eleanor Holmes Norton is the sole member of Congress for Washington D.C.’s nearly 700,000 residents -- including most of the Georgetown Law Community -- but as a non-voting delegate, her power is limited. She has…
Distinguished Visitor from Practice Caroline Fredrickson spent a good part of her career in the Senate -- including as deputy chief of staff to then-Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle -- before leading the American Constitution Society for a decade…
Just hours after President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were inaugurated on Wednesday, Georgetown Law alumna Avril Haines (L’01) became the first member of the new cabinet to be confirmed by the Senate.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan), one of the first two Muslim women elected to the U.S. Congress, was born to Palestinian parents. Her father came to the United States at 19, with a fourth-grade education. His first job was at the Ford plant outside of Detroit. He became a member of the United Auto Workers. And he would inspire his 14 children with respect to labor rights.
Georgetown Law’s Native American Law Students Association (NALSA) partnered with the law firm Holland & Knight on Friday, September 20, hosting a Policy & Pizza series on efforts to expand tribal sovereignty in the 116th Congress.
“I am here to make the case for D.C. statehood,” said Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser, as she delivered the 2019-2020 Philip A. Hart Memorial Lecture at Georgetown Law on September 4. “To underscore the great injustice of disenfranchising more than 700,000 Washingtonians, taxpaying Americans, and to shed light on the fact that the injustices don’t end there — that our lack of statehood has far-reaching consequences on the day-to-day lives of the people I represent.”
On July 10, Assistant Dean and Professor from Practice Vicki Arroyo (L’94), executive director of the Georgetown Climate Center (GCC) at Georgetown Law, testified before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works in a hearing entitled “Investing…
On July 9, Professor Angela Campbell, who directs the Institute for Public Representation’s Communications & Technology Law Clinic, testified before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary in a hearing on “Protecting Innocence in a Digital World, chaired…
At Georgetown Law’s Washington, D.C., Alumni Luncheon on June 11, Alexandra Givens of the Institute for Technology Law & Policy hosted a conversation with John K. Delaney (L’88) on how technology is transforming society.