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.
After 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.
On 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.
On April 9, United States Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) visited the Georgetown Law campus for a wide-ranging conversation convened by The Georgetown Law Journal about executive power and the role of lawyers, lawmakers and the judiciary in upholding democratic norms and the rule of law.
Interim President of Georgetown University Robert Groves announced today that Professor Joshua Teitelbaum, the David Belding Professor of Law and Professor of Economics (by courtesy), will serve as interim dean of Georgetown Law and Executive Vice President…
Once among the most famous Black men in 1930s America, Angelo Herndon — a Communist Party organizer wrongly convicted of attempting to incite insurrection and sentenced to a chain gang by an all-white jury — has largely faded from public recollection in recent decades.
Former Second Gentleman of the United States Doug Emhoff joined Dean William M. Treanor and members of the Georgetown Law community on April 1 to discuss his legal career and its influence on his role in the Biden-Harris administration as well as the pressing issues facing lawyers and law students today. They also talked about his time as a Distinguished Visitor from Practice on the Georgetown Law faculty.
Visiting Professor Rev. Ladislas Orsy, S.J. died on April 3, 2025. Dean William M. Treanor shared the following remembrance with the Georgetown Law community:
For Professor Aderson François, the stories of the “new people” of the 14th amendment — the formerly enslaved people who gained citizenship following the Civil War — are central to understanding the Reconstruction Era and its profound restructuring of American law and society.
As a comparative and transnational law scholar focused on the United States and China, Professor Mark Jia is guided by two questions: What is the relationship between the law and authoritarianism, and what is the relationship between the law and geopolitics?
