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Professor John Copacino, Prettyman alumnus and longtime director of the Prettyman Program and the Criminal Justice Clinic, speaking at the anniversary dinner.

Georgetown Law’s Prettyman Fellowship Marks 65 Years of Preparing Lawyers to Defend the Underrepresented

June 20, 2025 Campus News Clinics Criminal Law Faculty Impacting Change Juveniles Our Alumni Public Interest & Community Service

In 1960, Georgetown Law founded the E. Barrett Prettyman Program, which was – and still is – an innovative fellowship that trains recent law school graduates to represent indigent clients. On May 31, dozens of Prettyman alumni, along with other friends and supporters, gathered on campus to celebrate the program’s 65th anniversary and to congratulate one of its longtime leaders, Professor John Copacino, L’83, on his retirement.

Juvenile Justice Clinic Director Professor Kristin Henning, L'87, advising student Deena Dulgerian, L'17, before a 2016 court hearing.

Georgetown Law's Juvenile Justice Clinic Celebrates 50th Anniversary

June 4, 2024 Campus News Civil Rights & Antidiscrimination Clinics Faculty Impacting Change Juveniles Our Alumni Public Interest & Community Service Race & Law Students

On June 1, Georgetown Law hosted a festive celebration honoring the 50th anniversary of its Juvenile Justice Clinic. The Clinic was not only one of the first at the Law Center, but has also been a pioneer in clinical legal education in the United States…

Professor Kristin Henning: Exposing What Black Children Endure

September 28, 2021 Faculty Juveniles Public Interest & Community Service

In her new book, “The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth,” Blume Professor of Law Kristin Henning writes about her 26 years defending Black children prosecuted for offenses including “horseplay” on the Metro, throwing snowballs…

New Study Shows Schools Can Help Vulnerable Girls Succeed with Restorative Practices

May 11, 2021 Feminism & Gender Studies Juveniles Press Releases

WASHINGTON -- A new Georgetown Law study shows that giving girls access to supportive community circles and other restorative practices can benefit their health, wellbeing and chances for school success. For its latest study, the Initiative on Gender…

The Center on Poverty and Inequality’s Economic Security and Opportunity Initiative staff with organizers of the Youth Opportunity Guarantee at a Dec. 5 event.

“Youth Opportunity Guarantee” Critical for U.S., Center on Poverty and Inequality Says

February 5, 2020 Juveniles

Nearly a decade into the U.S. economic recovery, more than 4 million young people ages 16-24 are neither working nor in school.

Research Confirms that Black Girls Feel the Sting of Adultification Bias Identified in Earlier Georgetown Law Study

May 15, 2019 Juveniles Press Releases

WASHINGTON – Building on its groundbreaking 2017 Girlhood Interrupted study showing that adults view black girls as more adult-like and less innocent than white girls, Georgetown Law’s Center on Poverty and Inequality today released a follow-up study…

Yale Law School Professor James Forman Jr., who taught at Georgetown Law from 2003 to 2011, delivered the 2018-2019 Philip A. Hart Memorial Lecture on November 15.

Professor James Forman Jr. on "Locking Up Our Own: Race, Class, and the Politics of Mass Incarceration"

November 20, 2018 Civil Rights & Antidiscrimination Criminal Law Juveniles Race & Law

When James Forman Jr., a former Georgetown Law and current Yale Law faculty member, was working as a public defender in Washington, D.C., in the 1990s, he represented a 15-year-old client named Brandon who had pled guilty to gun and marijuana possession. Forman was requesting probation; the prosecutor wanted Brandon sent to Oak Hill, D.C.’s now-notorious juvenile facility. The judge chose Oak Hill — to Forman’s fury. The same racial injustice that motivated him to become a public defender, he realized, was being used to lock his client away.

Professor David Vladeck, Justin Brookman of Consumers Union and Professor Angela Campbell at "COPPA at 20: Protecting Children's Privacy in the New Digital Era" at Georgetown Law October 24.

Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy Looks at Child Online Privacy Law 20 Years Later

November 5, 2018 Clinics Juveniles Technology, Communication, and Intellectual Property

At 20 years old, a landmark child online privacy law is well past the age of the kids it was designed to protect.

50 Former Justice Dept. Leaders, Prosecutors and Judges Join ICAP Brief Urging Resentencing For Juvenile Offender

September 14, 2018 Juveniles Press Releases

WASHINGTON – In an amicus brief filed today, former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, former acting U.S. Attorney General Peter Keisler, and former Deputy Attorneys General David Ogden and Gary Grindler joined a bipartisan group of 50 signatories…

Visiting Professor Charisma Howell and retiring Professor Richard Roe of Georgetown Law's Street Law clinic with May O'Brien, wife of the late Ed O'Brien (L'73)(founder of the national Street Law program), at Georgetown Law on June 28.

Georgetown Law Honors Professor Rick Roe, 45th Anniversary of Street Law

July 2, 2018 Faculty Juveniles Our Alumni

Hundreds of Georgetown Law alumni and friends turned out June 28 to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Law Center’s Street Law clinical program and to honor its longtime director, Professor Rick Roe — whose retirement leaves a legacy of interactive…

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