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.
With an eye toward identifying the advocates and strategies that will guide the next generation of climate justice work, on March 31, Georgetown Law’s Human Rights Institute (HRI) convened “Futures at Stake: Climate Change, Human Rights, and Youth Advocacy,” the 2026 Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights.
Leading human rights lawyer Agnieszka Fryszman, L’96, joined students, alumni and members of the Georgetown Law community on Nov. 13 to deliver the Human Rights Institute’s annual Drinan Lecture on Human Rights.
WASHINGTON — Georgetown Law announced today that Agnieszka Fryszman, L'96, one of the nation’s preeminent human rights litigators and founder of the Human Rights practice at Cohen Milstein, has been appointed the 2025-2026 Robert F. Drinan, S.J, Chair…
Leading academics, lawyers and international human rights advocates gathered on April 8 for “Truth, Solidarity, and Repair: Haiti and the Global Movement for Reparations,” the 2025 Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights hosted by Georgetown Law’s Human Rights Institute (HRI).
Faculty, students and legal advocates gathered at Georgetown Law on March 24 for “President Trump’s Immigration Policies and the Litigation Challenging Them,” a discussion of the new presidential administration’s activities on a range of immigration issues including detention, deportation and asylum.
Having immigrated to the United States from Colombia, where his family fled political persecution, Rodrigo Bermudez, L’24, came to Georgetown Law knowing the stakes of immigration law and the asylum process firsthand.
WASHINGTON — Renowned Liberian human rights lawyer and environmental advocate Alfred Lahai Brownell, Sr. has joined Georgetown Law as this academic year’s Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Chair in Human Rights. “Georgetown Law is thrilled to welcome Alfred…
On June 27, the Pat Tillman Foundation named Karim Ibrahim, L’26, to its 2024 class of Tillman Scholars. Ibrahim, a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, is among 60 armed forces members, veterans and military spouses selected this year from a pool of nearly…
The morning before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson woke up to a flurry of messages.
It was the office of the Ukrainian prosecutor general.
Dr. Houssam al-Nahhas hoped to become a cardiac surgeon. Instead, he was tortured and detained for providing medical care during the Syrian uprising — and was forced to sign a pledge promising not to treat patients with alleged anti-government ties upon his release. "I just could not imagine how providing health care can be a crime, until I experienced it firsthand," he said of the experience, which motivated him to devote his career to documenting similar attacks on health care providers.