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(L-R) Commission Staff Director Mauro Morales, Professor Victoria Nourse and her husband, Richard Cupitt

Professor Victoria Nourse Appointed to U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

March 29, 2023 Civil Rights & Antidiscrimination Faculty Impacting Change

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.

(L-R) Professors Robin Lenhardt, Anna Gelpern, Dorothy Brown, Hope Babcock, Eloise Pasachoff and Dean William M. Treanor

Five Faculty Members Honored with Named Professorships

March 20, 2023 Campus News Faculty

On March 7, the Georgetown Law community celebrated the achievements of five faculty members who have been awarded named professorships and chairs.

Deborah Archer, ACLU President and Associate Dean and Professor of Clinical Law at NYU, presented the keynote talk at a Georgetown Law symposium on legal clinics and racial justice.

ACLU President Challenges Law School Clinics to Push for Systemic Change and Racial Justice

March 13, 2023 Campus News Civil Rights & Antidiscrimination Clinics Faculty Impacting Change Our Alumni Public Interest & Community Service Race & Law

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…

Shortly after stepping down from the Treasury Department, Prof. Itai Grinberg spoke about his time there at a recent Georgetown Law conference on international taxation.

The Re-entry Interview: After Securing Landmark International Tax Agreement, Prof. Itai Grinberg Returns to Campus

February 23, 2023 Campus News Faculty International Economic Law Tax Law

Professor Itai Grinberg’s last two years have been busy ones, full of travel to international capitals, seven-day work weeks and 16-hour days of meetings and negotiations. But in the end, he helped achieve a top item on the United States’ international economic agenda: a first-ever global minimum corporate tax (GMT).

Professor Sheila Foster’s New Book, ‘Co-Cities,’ Spotlights Empowerment Within Urban Communities

December 19, 2022 Campus News Environmental Law Faculty Race & Law

Our world is increasingly an urban one. The majority of people today live in metropolitan areas, and that proportion is only expected to grow in the coming years. At their best, cities are dynamic, diverse hubs of commerce and creativity. At their worst, they are crucibles of inequality and inefficiency.

The Georgetown Center for the Constitution hosted an event for Prof. Brad Snyder to talk about his new book, "Democratic Justice."

Professor Brad Snyder: Casting New Light on Justice Frankfurter’s Legacy

December 14, 2022 Campus News Constitutional Law & Theory Faculty

In his definitive new biography of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, who served on the bench from 1939 to 1962, Georgetown Law professor Brad Snyder reevaluates the conventional story of Frankfurter’s progression from liberal advocate to conservative jurist.

Georgetown Law Dean William M. Treanor Files Amicus Brief in Supreme Court Case on Federal Election Oversight

December 5, 2022 Campus News Constitutional Law & Theory Election Law Faculty

Update: On June 27, 2023, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Moore v. Harper, rejecting the “independent state legislature doctrine.” Chief Justice John G. Roberts, in his majority opinion, cited a 2005 Stanford Law Review article by Dean William…

(L-R) Professors Tanina Rostain, Howard Shelanski and Laura Donohue, Dean William M. Treanor and Professors Lilian Faulhaber, Gregory Klass and Joshua Teitelbaum

Six Faculty Members Awarded Named Professorships and Chairs

December 5, 2022 Campus News Faculty

The Georgetown Law faculty gathered on November 29 to celebrate six colleagues who had recently been awarded named professorships and chairs.

Dean William M. Treanor, left and Prof. Robin Lenhardt, right, present the Flegal Excellence in Teaching Award to Prof. Paul Butler, center

Four Faculty Members Honored for Excellence in Teaching and for Service to the Community

November 11, 2022 Campus News Faculty

Georgetown Law’s faculty gathered on Wednesday, November 9 to celebrate the recipients of the Law Center’s 2021-22 Teaching and Faculty Service Awards.

Workers’ Rights Institute Executive Director Mark Gaston Pearce presents opening testimony at a House Committee on Education and Labor hearing. Photo courtesy of the Committee.

Workers’ Rights Institute Director Testifies at Congressional Hearing on Labor Organizing

September 21, 2022 Faculty Labor Law

Union activity is currently surging in the United States. Efforts to organize workers at large companies like Starbucks and Amazon have captured imaginations and dominated the headlines for months. According to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), in the first three quarters of the current fiscal year, union representation petition filings rose 58% over last year.

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