After 15 years at the helm, William M. Treanor stepped down as Dean of Georgetown Law, Executive Vice President and the Paul Regis Dean Leadership Chair.
Sandra Day O’Connor, H’86, the first woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court, died December 1, 2023 at the age of 93. During her time on the Court, and especially afterward, she formed deep relationships with the Georgetown Law community.
Popularized by the "Black Panther" film series and the work of science-fiction authors such as N. K. Jemisin and Octavia Butler, the Afrofuturism movement — which merges futuristic themes with Black aesthetics and culture — is largely known as an artistic genre.
By the summer of 1941, months before the United States entered World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had appointed seven of the Supreme Court’s nine justices and handpicked an eighth for the role of chief justice. A new book by Professor Cliff…
In recent years, several Georgetown Law professors have entered the world of podcasting, offering sophisticated legal analysis and insight with no tuition required.
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…
