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.
High court judges from across Latin America and the Caribbean were joined last month at Georgetown Law by scholars and legal advocates for the second annual “Judicial Dialogues on Health and the Law” hosted by the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law’s Center for Health and Human Rights.
Leading scholars, legal practitioners and public health experts gathered at Georgetown Law September 11-13 to reflect on the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the disaster’s enduring impact on law and society.
Hundreds of students, scholars and experts gathered to discuss pressing issues in public health law and celebrate Professor Lawrence Gostin's pioneering contributions to the field at "Preserving Health and Humanity Now," a symposium hosted on Oct. 28 by Georgetown Law's O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law.
As the 2023-24 academic year begins, we are pleased to introduce the newest members of our faculty.
Last Friday, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated an emergent COVID-19 strain as a "variant of concern" and gave it the name "omicron." This news is not only upending international travel and stock markets, but also underscores the need to expedite vaccination in low-income countries.
Georgetown Law Professor Lawrence Gostin has a vision: a world that harnesses the power of law to ensure that all people, regardless of race, wealth, or national origin, enjoy good health.
The “central tension” in public health law is "balancing individual freedoms with the collective health and well-being of society.”
Georgetown Law Professor David A. Hyman, an expert on the regulation and financing of health care, was installed as the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Health Law & Policy on November 13. “David is a great scholar who has defined health care policies…
When the student editors of The Georgetown Law Journal wanted to present their Volume 108 Symposium on “Law and the Nation’s Health,” they reached out to experts at institutions including Yale Law School, the University of Virginia School of Law…
The summer before college, Professor Yael Cannon volunteered through AmeriCorps with a food bank in Washington, D.C., driving a van to summer camps and public housing complexes, bringing food to low-income children who were no longer getting meals at school.