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October 15, 2025 Campus News FacultyProfessor Emeritus Joseph A. Page, who joined the Georgetown Law faculty in 1968, died October 13. He was 91 years old.
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Three DOJ Veterans Join Georgetown Law’s Storied Legal Practice Program
September 12, 2025 Campus News Faculty Legal Research & WritingAs the fall semester begins, Georgetown Law is pleased to introduce the newest faculty additions to the Legal Practice program, which introduces first-year students to the foundations of legal writing and analysis through hands-on coursework that simulates real-life legal practice.
Orientation 2025: Georgetown Law Welcomes 1,000+ New ‘Hoya Lawyas’
August 25, 2025 Campus News Faculty Our Alumni StudentsSome 670 new J.D. students and 400 LL.M. and graduate students began their Georgetown Law journeys last week. Orientation, which began August 18, offered welcome activities, classroom introductions, social gatherings and excursions that brought campus back to life after the quiet days of summer.
Letter from London: Teaching and Scholarship on the Frontiers of Transnational Law
August 19, 2025 Campus News Faculty International & Comparative Law International Economic Law StudentsAs summer draws to a close, our colleagues “across the pond” at the Center for Transnational Legal Studies (CTLS) in London, England are looking back on a year full of innovative teaching, transformative exchanges and scholarly debates on pressing…
Meet Interim Dean Joshua C. Teitelbaum
August 18, 2025 Campus News Faculty Press ReleasesOn July 1, Professor Joshua C. Teitelbaum became the Interim Dean of Georgetown Law, taking over the reins – for the next year or so – at the nation’s largest law school. Teitelbaum, who holds a Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University as well…
What I’m Working On: Professor Eloise Pasachoff on Federal Appropriations Power
August 12, 2025 Campus News Faculty Legislation and Administrative Law What I'm Working OnFor Professor Eloise Pasachoff, legal scholarship isn’t just a means of understanding executive spending power and appropriations law — it’s a way to improve the processes at the core of government.
Teitelbaum Becomes Interim Dean; Treanor Named Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor
June 30, 2025 Campus News Faculty Press ReleasesAfter 15 years at the helm, William M. Treanor stepped down today as Dean of Georgetown Law, Executive Vice President and the Paul Regis Dean Leadership Chair. He is succeeded by Joshua C. Teitelbaum, David Belding Professor of Law, who will serve as…
Georgetown Law’s Prettyman Fellowship Marks 65 Years of Preparing Lawyers to Defend the Underrepresented
June 20, 2025 Campus News Clinics Criminal Law Faculty Impacting Change Juveniles Our Alumni Public Interest & Community ServiceIn 1960, Georgetown Law founded the E. Barrett Prettyman Program, which was – and still is – an innovative fellowship that trains recent law school graduates to represent indigent clients. On May 31, dozens of Prettyman alumni, along with other friends and supporters, gathered on campus to celebrate the program’s 65th anniversary and to congratulate one of its longtime leaders, Professor John Copacino, L’83, on his retirement.
‘The Privilege of a Lifetime’: Dean William M. Treanor on 15 Years at Georgetown Law
June 9, 2025 Campus News Constitutional Law & Theory Faculty Impacting ChangeAfter 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.
Five Faculty Members Win 2025 Awards for Excellence in Teaching and Service
May 1, 2025 Campus News FacultyOn April 22, Georgetown Law honored five faculty members for their excellence in teaching and service to the Law Center community at the Faculty Scholarship and Teaching Awards Luncheon.