M. Elizabeth Magill, the new dean of Georgetown Law, discusses her path to becoming a lawyer and a professor, her approach to leadership and what she loves about living in Washington, D.C.
It’s been a Georgetown Law tradition since 2013: at the end of each academic year, editors of the school’s flagship legal journal come together with their alumni predecessors for a festive dinner and an address by a prominent figure in the legal world. On May 5, the banquet’s featured guest was the Hon. James E. Boasberg, chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Four Georgetown Law professors, Stephen Vladeck, Michele Goodwin, Allegra McLeod and Anita Krishnakumar, are among the 100 most-cited scholars in legal academia, according to a ranking compiled by law librarians at George Mason University.
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Tackling such topics as federal employee layoffs, challenges to the National Labor Relations Board, and attacks on workplace diversity initiatives, 165 scholars, policymakers, advocates, and students gathered October 24 for The Georgetown Law Journal’s…
Growing up on Saipan, a Pacific island home to a small but diverse population, Associate Professor Eun Hee Han, L’07, observed cross-cultural communication firsthand. At Georgetown Law, she applies the same lens to her scholarship, which focuses on the intersections between language, law, culture, citizenship and identity.
Leading scholars in law, economics, political science and other fields gathered at Georgetown Law Oct. 24 and 25 for the 19th annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS), the premier conference for researchers interested in empirical analysis of law and legal institutions.
As the fall semester begins, Georgetown Law is pleased to introduce the newest faculty additions to the Legal Practice program, which introduces first-year students to the foundations of legal writing and analysis through hands-on coursework that simulates real-life legal practice.
Among the treasured books in Professor Paul Rothstein's office is a signed first-edition volume by John Henry Wigmore, the lawyer and legal scholar whom Rothstein describes as the "Einstein of evidence law" for his contributions to the field at the turn of the 20th century.
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.
Law firms adapting to new market realities are separating themselves from their competition
Positive market results in 2023 are expected to continue in 2024
Generative AI could impact nearly all aspects of law firm operations
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Popularized by the "Black Panther" film series and the work of science-fiction authors such as N. K. Jemisin and Octavia Butler, the Afrofuturism movement — which merges futuristic themes with Black aesthetics and culture — is largely known as an artistic genre.
