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.
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…
It began as a pie-in-the-sky idea from a faculty member, and a quarter-century later has become an invaluable resource for lawyers preparing for oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court – and a precious educational opportunity for Georgetown Law students.
In December 1923, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was first introduced in the U.S. House and Senate. Coming just after the passage of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, the ERA aimed to give women’s equality full Constitutional protection.
Among the treasured books in Professor Paul Rothstein's office is a signed first-edition volume by John Henry Wigmore, the lawyer and legal scholar whom Rothstein describes as the "Einstein of evidence law" for his contributions to the field at the turn of the 20th century.
On March 4, Georgetown Law's Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP), Law Forward and Stafford Rosenbaum LLP announced a historic settlement in first-of-its-kind litigation against participants in a fraudulent electors scheme intended to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
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.