M. Elizabeth Magill, the former dean of Stanford Law School, provost of the University of Virginia and president of the University of Pennsylvania, has been named the executive vice president and dean of Georgetown Law.
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.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Georgetown Center for the Constitution is pleased to announce that Robert J. Cottrol, L’84, Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School and Professor of History and Sociology in…
Alumni are serving on the bench across the country and world; despite their different backgrounds, courts and legal systems, they are united in their commitment to public service.
Georgetown Law faculty, students and members of the press gathered to discuss the United States Supreme Court’s upcoming October 2024 term during two campus preview panels – one for students and one for journalists – hosted by the Supreme Court Institute on Sept. 24 and 25.
For Professor Randy Barnett, the highlights of his career — trying felony cases as a Cook County prosecutor, arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court and even playing an attorney in a science fiction film — make up what he calls an “after-the-fact bucket list.”
“The idea was not to just take a case, but change the law.” - Professor Brian Wolfman, Appellate Immersion Clinic