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.
The American Lawyer magazine honored Professor William M. Treanor, Dean Emeritus of Georgetown Law, with its Lifetime Achievement Award at a ceremony in New York City on November 13. In his acceptance remarks, Treanor said he was “humbled and honored”…
United States Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined members of the Georgetown Law community on October 28 for a wide-ranging conversation hosted by the Georgetown Center for the Constitution about constitutional interpretation, judicial transparency and collegiality on the nation’s highest court.
Top legal advocates, scholars and journalists convened at Georgetown Law July 2 to analyze some of the most consequential and controversial decisions of the Supreme Court’s 2024-25 term, from immigrant deportations to nationwide injunctions to transgender rights.
After 15 eventful years, William M. Treanor, Executive Vice President, Dean of the Law Center and Paul Regis Dean Leadership Chair, steps down from the deanship at the end of this month. After a sabbatical year, he’ll return to the classroom in the fall of 2026. Recently, he took the time to reminisce about his tenure as one of the Law Center’s longest-serving deans.
Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts, Jr., visited Georgetown Law on May 12 to deliver the Lecture to the Graduating Class of 2025. The conversation series, held each spring, brings leading legal advocates to campus to offer candid guidance to outgoing Law Center graduates as they embark on their legal careers.
Supreme Court Justice David Souter, who was nominated by President George H.W. Bush in 1990 and served on the Supreme Court until 2009, died on May 9 at the age of 85.
On April 9, United States Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) visited the Georgetown Law campus for a wide-ranging conversation convened by The Georgetown Law Journal about executive power and the role of lawyers, lawmakers and the judiciary in upholding democratic norms and the rule of law.
United States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor joined members of the Georgetown Law community on March 28 for a wide-ranging conversation with Dean William M. Treanor about pressing issues facing the judiciary today, including the role of courts in safeguarding the rule of law and the skills necessary for the next generation of legal professionals to succeed.
Leading scholars, policymakers and legal advocates gathered to consider the state of democratic values in light of recent elections in the United States and abroad at “Democracy and the Rule of Law Under Pressure,” a symposium convened by Georgetown Law and the McCourt School of Public Policy on Feb. 7.
For Professor Aderson François, the stories of the “new people” of the 14th amendment — the formerly enslaved people who gained citizenship following the Civil War — are central to understanding the Reconstruction Era and its profound restructuring of American law and society.