Leading scholars, policymakers and legal advocates gathered to consider the state of democratic values in the United States and abroad.
Leading scholars, policymakers and legal advocates gathered to consider the state of democratic values in light of recent elections in the United States and abroad at “Democracy and the Rule of Law Under Pressure,” a symposium convened by Georgetown Law and the McCourt School of Public Policy on Feb. 7.
As a comparative and transnational law scholar focused on the United States and China, Professor Mark Jia is guided by two questions: What is the relationship between the law and authoritarianism, and what is the relationship between the law and geopolitics?
Alumnus Eddy Chan and his wife, Yunmi Cha, have established the Eddy Chan and Yunmi Cha Endowed Global Law Scholarship. It supports students within Georgetown Law's Global Law Scholars program. The competitive and rigorous academic program prepares students…
The Center for Transnational Legal Studies (CTLS) in London, England is a unique institution for students and scholars interested in international, comparative and transnational law. Georgetown Law is one of the founding members of what is now a 21-member…
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.
Discussing a wide range of issues, from deliberations on same-sex marriage to grad school memories, Chief Justice of India Dhananjanaya Yeshwant Chandrachud and recently retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer met for the fourth “Comparative Constitutional Law Conversation” at Georgetown Law on October 23.
While visiting Washington this week, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Andriy Kostin, stopped at Georgetown Law to take part in an event highlighting the efforts of the Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group for Ukraine (ACA), an international justice initiative established last year by the United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom to support Ukraine’s efforts to document and prosecute war crimes and other atrocities perpetrated against its citizens.
This July, legal scholars and practitioners from across the world converged on London to think collaboratively about a crucial and very timely topic: the state and future of constitutional democracy.
The 9/11 terrorist attacks – and how the U.S. government responded to them at the time – continue to affect this country and the world in ways we are only beginning to comprehend two decades later.