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Brownell presented a keynote lecture at HRI's 2024 Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights.

Environmental Activist Alfred Brownell Joins Georgetown Law as 2024-25 Drinan Chair in Human Rights

September 9, 2024 Campus News Environmental Law Human Rights & Immigration Impacting Change Press Releases Public Interest & Community Service

WASHINGTON — Renowned Liberian human rights lawyer and environmental advocate Alfred Lahai Brownell, Sr. has joined Georgetown Law as this academic year’s Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Chair in Human Rights. “Georgetown Law is thrilled to welcome Alfred…

Innocence Project attorney Yosha Gunasekera advised aspiring public interest lawyers at a lunchtime event.

Top Public Interest Lawyers Visit, Teach as Georgetown Law 'Leaders-in-Residence'

December 19, 2023 Campus News Civil Rights & Antidiscrimination Impacting Change Public Interest & Community Service

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.

Georgetown Law’s Judicial Innovation Fellowship Begins Transforming America’s Courts

September 25, 2023 Campus News Civil Rights & Antidiscrimination Impacting Change Press Releases Public Interest & Community Service Technology, Communication, and Intellectual Property

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…