The Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD) and the Legal Writing Institute (LWI), the two leading membership organizations for legal writing academics, have awarded the 2024 Thomas F. Blackwell Award to Georgetown Law Professor Kristen Konrad Tiscione…
When asked to interpret a law, do people tend to focus more on the text or its purpose? Are there circumstances that might cause them to focus on one method rather than the other?
Austin Martin Williams vividly remembers his first visit to Georgetown Law, in the summer of 2019. He was then assistant director of the law library at North Carolina Central University, where he earned both his J.D. and M.L.S. with honors, and had come…
President Joe Biden has appointed Professor Victoria Nourse to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, an independent federal agency whose mission is “to inform the development of national civil rights policy and enhance enforcement of federal civil rights laws.” Nourse, who is the Ralph V. Whitworth Professor in Law, was sworn in earlier this month as one of eight commissioners and will serve a six-year term.
Some ninety professors, activists, students, lawyers and other stakeholders from across the country gathered at Georgetown Law March 3 for a day-long symposium titled “Promoting Justice: Advancing Racial Equity through Student Practice in Legal Clinics…
