A steady rain was falling, yet it didn’t wash away the smiles on the faces of graduating Georgetown Law students and their guests as they arrived at Nationals Park.
As a first-year evening student taking Constitutional Law with Professor Randy Barnett, Noah McCullough (L’20) got a tantalizing glimpse of the doctrine of originalism and wanted to dive deeper. So he applied to Barnett’s unique Originalism Summer…
Shon Hopwood, a second-year fellow in Georgetown Law’s Appellate Litigation Clinic, is joining the Georgetown Law faculty as an associate professor. Hopwood’s astounding personal journey that brought him to the law has been recounted in media outlets…
Claire Chevrier (L’17) was sitting in Professor David Vladeck’s Federal Courts class on March 22 when Anna Deffebach (L’17) texted her with the news: the Supreme Court held in Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District that public schools must provide children with disabilities an educational program that is “appropriately ambitious” in light of the child’s circumstances.
What does it mean to be a great lawyer working in house? Ask Benjamin W. Heineman, former general counsel at General Electric, who kicked off Georgetown Law’s 2017 Corporate Counsel Institute (CCI) with a look at the “inside counsel revolution”…
As confirmation hearings draw near for Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, the Supreme Court Institute and the Georgetown Law chapters of the American Constitution Society and the Federalist Society hosted a timely discussion on topics surrounding the…
When Georgetown Law Professor Neal Katyal was preparing to argue Hamdan v. Rumsfeld before the Supreme Court more than a decade ago, he knew that Paul Clement — then the 43rd solicitor general of the United States — would be arguing on the other side…
In the words of Georgetown Law Professor Neal Katyal — the former acting U.S. solicitor general — it often takes an immigrant to teach us about America. That was true on October 6, when the Law Center community welcomed Pakistani-American lawyer Khizr…
Unlike previous years, the annual Supreme Court Institute press briefing on Monday, September 19, featured no talk of swing votes, 5-4 predictions or blockbusters like health care or marriage equality. Though the talk was animated and the cases interesting…
