M. Elizabeth Magill, the former dean of Stanford Law School, provost of the University of Virginia and president of the University of Pennsylvania, has been named the executive vice president and dean of Georgetown Law.
Leading constitutional and educational law scholar Justin Driver, the Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law at Yale Law School, joined the Georgetown Law community on Feb. 25 to deliver the 2026 Thomas F. Ryan Lecture, “The Fall of Affirmative Action.”
When it came to the practical possibility of the U.S. government paying reparations to Black Americans in response to the enduring harms of slavery and racism, Professor and Georgetown Law alumna Dorothy Brown, L’83, once considered herself a skeptic.
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.
For Professor Aderson François, the stories of the “new people” of the 14th amendment — the formerly enslaved people who gained citizenship following the Civil War — are central to understanding the Reconstruction Era and its profound restructuring of American law and society.
On June 18, Georgetown Law’s Institute of International Economic Law (IIEL) partnered with the National Bankers Association (NBA), an organization representing minority-owned financial institutions, and with the Visa Economic Empowerment Institute (VEEI)…
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…
Philip Hirschkop, L’64, will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the Georgetown Law commencement on Sunday, May 19. In the six decades since his graduation, Hirschkop has had a storied career in civil rights law, but he is best known for one…
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.
