Several students had the opportunity to attend a unique oral argument at the Court: the first ever in which both advocates were members of the Georgetown faculty.
In the summer of 2016, Dean William M. Treanor met with Vibha Datta Makhija (LL.M.’92) — the youngest and the third woman to be designated as a Senior Advocate by the Supreme Court of India — in Washington, D.C. Treanor invited Makhija to join Georgetown Law’s Asian Law Alumni Advisory Board (AALAB). And since then, she’s only looked ahead.
“The problems that we are confronting, whether that’s the struggle around the world for good jobs that pay a living wage, whether that’s climate change, whether that’s the widening of the wealth gap or the rise of extremism and threats to national security — these are not problems…that can be solved by the United States alone,” Georgetown Law Professor from Practice Jennifer Hillman told a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on November 27.
Contemporary threats to security — noted Hina Jilani, the 2018-2019 Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Visiting Professor of Human Rights at Georgetown Law — go far beyond wars between states.
More than 90 refugee and migration judges from approximately 30 countries gathered at Georgetown Law in August, and with crushing caseloads and lives often in the balance, the issues were critical.
Douglas M. Bregman (L’74) entered Georgetown Law in 1971, right before the formal dedication of McDonough Hall. He skipped Chief Justice Warren Burger’s keynote address, opting for the “counter-dedication” on the front steps featuring radical lawyer William Kunstler.
Students on campus on July 13 got a refresher course in international law when Teresa Cheng, Hong Kong’s secretary for justice, came to Georgetown Law.
“This a very, very special day for the O’Neill Institute,” Professor Larry Gostin told a crowd gathered at Georgetown Law earlier this semester. It was the 10th anniversary of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law — and…
On November 17, Georgetown Law Asia and the Georgetown China Law Society hosted a talk by leading women’s rights lawyer and advocate Li Ying. Li directs the Beijing-based Yuanzhong Gender Development Center, one of China’s top women’s rights organizations…
Most Georgetown Law students serving on journals try to outdo their predecessors when it comes to planning a symposium — inviting the most prominent speakers they can find. And then there’s the 2017-2018 staff of the Georgetown Law Journal. Headed…
O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law Faculty Director and Founding O'Neill Chair in Global Health Law Larry Gostin says there are two global health narratives in the world: those told by the most influential people, such as Bill Gates…
