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.
As 2025 draws to a close, we’re looking back at the past year at Georgetown Law, from headline-grabbing guest speakers and alumni achievements to the work of students and faculty in clinics, courts and beyond. Join us in reflecting on this year’s milestones and memorable moments below.
For five years, "John" worked at a trade association, and all seemed to be fine with his bosses. But in the fall of 2024, he was fired.
Growing up on Saipan, a Pacific island home to a small but diverse population, Associate Professor Eun Hee Han, L’07, observed cross-cultural communication firsthand. At Georgetown Law, she applies the same lens to her scholarship, which focuses on the intersections between language, law, culture, citizenship and identity.
The American Lawyer magazine honored Professor William M. Treanor, Dean Emeritus of Georgetown Law, with its Lifetime Achievement Award at a ceremony in New York City on November 13. In his acceptance remarks, Treanor said he was “humbled and honored”…
Professor Emeritus Joseph A. Page, who joined the Georgetown Law faculty in 1968, died October 13. He was 91 years old.
As 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.
Some 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.
As 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…
On 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…
For 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.