Sotomayor joined members of the Georgetown Law community for a wide-ranging conversation with Dean Treanor about pressing issues facing the judiciary today,
The crisis of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy stems from many causes and failures. On April 9, Georgetown University Law Center and Georgetown University’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life sponsored a timely and much-needed dialogue with survivors, clergy, attorneys for the Catholic Church, attorneys for survivors, canon law and civil law experts, media, social workers and more.
Nicole Fauster (L’20) met Cedric Asiavugwa (L’19), her Georgetown Law public interest mentor, in the fall of 2017, when she entered Georgetown Law as a member of its Public Interest Law Scholars program.
They were in the same mentorship group in PILS, later known as the Blume Public Interest Scholars Program. In her second year, as president of the Muslim Law Students Association, Fauster also worked with Cedric, as the friendly 3L worked in Campus Ministry.
“He was Campus Ministry’s go-to guy,” Fauster said. “I definitely saw him on a very regular basis, putting together programming…whenever you passed by Campus Ministry, he was at that table, doing work, assisting the chaplains. One of the reasons I would go to Campus Ministry when I was going from class to class was to say hi to Cedric. He is definitely going to be someone whose loss will be deeply felt.”
On February 12, Professor Jane Aiken (LL.M.'85) was installed as the inaugural Blume Professor, a chair made possible through the extraordinary generosity of Bruce (L’80) and Ann Blume (Parents ’08, ’20).
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One of the things Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan learned when she was dean of a law school is that lawyers do public service — and pro bono work — in many different capacities.
It’s 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday of Orientation Week, and Georgetown Law Dean William M. Treanor is in Room 202 of McDonough Hall, along with a group of Section 2 1L students ready to volunteer at D.C. Central Kitchen as part of the Orientation Week service projects.
A brand-name hotel and luxury apartment building towering over an empty lot in Northwest Washington, D.C., are stark reminders of what Professor Anthony Cook’s unique mixed-income “intentional community” concept is up against.
Cook brought his…
As a student in Georgetown Law’s Street Law Clinic, Natasha Walls Smith’s (L’19) role was to teach D.C. high school students about constitutional policing, focusing on probable cause and reasonable suspicion. She taught the unit at Eastern High School, and then at Roosevelt High School, changing mid-semester.
When Taylor Weaver (L’17) was taking Professor Anthony Cook’s Law and Entrepreneurship Practicum in the fall of 2016, he realized that minority college students with science and technology backgrounds (STEM) were not getting the right opportunities to launch their careers — such as paid internships with the federal government.
