As 2025 draws to a close, we’re looking back at the past year at Georgetown Law, from headline-grabbing guest speakers and alumni achievements to the work of students and faculty in clinics, courts and beyond.
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.
Brian Reichart (L’12) hasn’t given up on the client he volunteered to represent in Georgetown Law’s Community Justice Project Clinic.
Peter Edelman, the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law and Public Policy at Georgetown Law, publishes his new book, "Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America" (The New Press) on October 31. We sat down with Edelman, who is the…
At a time when funding for the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) has come under attack, the organization needed a new forum in which to hold a meeting. So they came to Georgetown Law — whose dean, William M. Treanor, not only signed the March 23 letter…
An app that helps D.C. parents and students advocate effectively when a student faces suspension and expulsion. Another app that helps pro bono lawyers and intake personnel in British Columbia to determine quickly and efficiently the types of issues that a potential client is facing. A third that helps LGBTQ New Yorkers victimized by violence get help. A fourth that alerts overworked and underpaid service workers that their employer may be violating the federal Service Contract Act.
What does OPICS stand for? OPICS means that Caitlin Cocilova (L’15) is teaching others to advocate for themselves at the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless. That Mark Doss (L’13) at the International Refugee Assistance Project fought “tooth and nail” to help a client detained at JFK airport. That Lee McGoldrick (L’99), who worked for Teach for America as a college student, was able to build a career with that organization. That thousands of current and former Georgetown Law students are working to improve the lives of others, every single day.
Since the year 1789, more than 12,000 people have served in the U.S. Congress — yet less than 200 African Americans have been elected to Congress since 1870, noted Rep. Anthony Brown (D-Md.) at a reception at Georgetown Law to honor new members of the…