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.
When lawyer and linguist Stephen Horowitz was teaching an online legal English course for Ukraine's Chernivtsi National University in fall 2022, he struggled to find appropriate topics to discuss with students living in a country at war.
Some days, Innocence Project attorney Yosha Gunasekera told an audience of aspiring public interest lawyers, she feels like a cold-case detective as she combs through transcripts, autopsy records, police reports and crime scene footage in search of evidence that could exonerate clients who have been wrongfully convicted.
WASHINGTON — Ecofeminist human rights and environmental lawyer and former Special Rapporteur on Economic, Social, Cultural, and Environmental Rights at the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights Soledad García Muñoz will join Georgetown Law as…
Students often learn from books their professors have written, but in the case of one recent Georgetown Law seminar, the professor was so impressed by her students’ papers, she turned them into a book.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Judicial Innovation Fellowship’s (JIF) inaugural fellow class started work today to develop technology solutions for improving justice in America. The first-of-its-kind program, incubating at Georgetown Law, brings experienced…
Last January, Alexis Shanes, L’24, found herself in Erbil, a city in Northern Iraq. “It was the most astonishing experience, one I never thought I would be able to have in law school,” she said.
It started with an unusual idea from a few Georgetown Law students and professors in the early 1970s, and today has connected young people with law students around the world, introducing them to how legal systems work and opening new career paths. Street Law has come a long way in five decades.
Earlier this semester, White House National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi, L’15, visited his alma mater to give a presentation to the Georgetown Climate Center on highlights of the Biden administration’s climate policy agenda and achievements. More recently…
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As part of its continuing efforts to support graduates seeking careers in public service, Georgetown Law this spring launched a new Capitol Hill Fellowship Program for recent graduates who find positions in Congressional offices.