United States Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined members of the Georgetown Law community for a wide-ranging conversation hosted by the Georgetown Center for the Constitution.
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…
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.
Sandra Day O’Connor, H’86, the first woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court, died December 1, 2023 at the age of 93. During her time on the Court, and especially afterward, she formed deep relationships with the Georgetown Law community.
By the summer of 1941, months before the United States entered World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had appointed seven of the Supreme Court’s nine justices and handpicked an eighth for the role of chief justice. A new book by Professor Cliff…
Discussing a wide range of issues, from deliberations on same-sex marriage to grad school memories, Chief Justice of India Dhananjanaya Yeshwant Chandrachud and recently retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer met for the fourth “Comparative Constitutional Law Conversation” at Georgetown Law on October 23.
In addition to hosting moot courts in which advocates preparing to argue Supreme Court cases can try out their presentations before a panel of constitutional law experts, every fall the Georgetown Law Supreme Court Institute organizes two preview panels…
WASHINGTON – Georgetown Law’s Supreme Court Institute will host its annual press briefing, “Anticipating the Supreme Court’s October Term 2023” at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, September 20. A panel of Supreme Court experts will discuss major cases…
U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar joined current and former members of The Georgetown Law Journal for its 10th annual Alumni Banquet on May 18.