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Outgoing Georgetown Law Journal Editor-in-Chief Alexis Marvel, L'24, and former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch at the 2024 Georgetown Law Journal banquet.

Former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch Addresses Georgetown Law Journal Banquet

May 2, 2024 Campus News Civil Rights & Antidiscrimination Our Alumni Students

Former United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch called upon students, alumni and faculty to remember the power of the law to protect people and secure justice at The Georgetown Law Journal’s 11th annual alumni banquet on April 24. Living up to the ideals of justice, she said, “is our highest and best purpose as lawyers — and in my view, as citizens.”

2024 Beaudry Competition finalists pose with members of the judging panel. L-R: Attorney Zoe Jacoby; Luke Dykowski, L’26; Prof. Laura Donohue; Jen Fridman, L'26; Judge Anthony Trenga; Judge Timothy Kelly, L'97; Allyson Rosenblum, L'26; Talia Paskuski, L’26, and attorney Gregory Cui.

First-Year Students Face Judges in 2024 Beaudry Moot Court Competition

April 25, 2024 Campus News Students

Having beat out some 70 competitors, four finalists faced a panel of real-life judges and practitioners as they made their arguments in the last round of the 73rd annual Robert J. Beaudry Moot Court Competition on April 3. The competition is held each spring and offers first-year students the chance to practice their written and oral advocacy skills — with top performers earning an invitation to join the Appellate Advocacy Division of Georgetown Law’s Barristers’ Council.

Hoya Lawyas coach Chase Gordon, L'24, at center, psyching up his team.

Home Court 2024: Hoya Lawyas Victorious Over GW Law Rowdy Revs in Charity Fundraiser

April 3, 2024 Campus News Faculty Our Alumni Public Interest & Community Service Students

The 37th annual Home Court charity basketball game, held March 28 at the Gonzaga College High School gym, was a fast-paced match between students, faculty and staff from Georgetown Law (the Hoya Lawyas) and from the George Washington University Law School…

L-R: SCI Director Debbie Shrager with student research assistants Blake Phillips, L'24, Hasala Ariyaratne, L’25, Jordan Dyer, L’25, Zenia Grzebin, L’25, and SCI Assistant Director Maddie Sloat, L’27

Georgetown Law Students Witness Professors in Supreme Court Arguments

March 21, 2024 Campus News Constitutional Law & Theory Faculty Students

For most law students, a chance to see a Supreme Court argument live and in person is thrilling. But the chance to see two professors from your own school argue opposing sides of a case is an even rarer treat.

Kelly Heesch Sharbo, L'25, and her classmates at her baby shower.

Double Duty: Georgetown Law Evening Students Juggle Day Jobs and Coursework

February 1, 2024 Campus News Students

“We have people who have traveled with the president on Air Force One, people who have been in the intelligence community – there's just a million different people who have had serious careers, and now they're in class with you.”- Maurice Roberson, L’25

Students in the course "Extradition Simulation: International Law, Human Rights, and Effective Advocacy" presented their arguments in front of a mock tribunal.

For First-Year Students, ‘Week One’ Experiential Courses Bring Learning to Life

January 24, 2024 Campus News Students

"The sentence is not grossly disproportionate to the crime committed." That was the argument guiding Camryn Simmons, L'26, as she approached the bench for a mock terrorist extradition hearing in which she represented the United States before the European Court of Human Rights. Simmons was arguing in favor of the extradition of a suspected terrorist facing the possibility of a life sentence without parole — an argument complicated not only by the intricacies of international human rights law, but also by the fact that the hypothetical suspect was 19 years old and pregnant.

Clockwise from top left: Dean William M. Treanor and U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi; class of 2023 graduates; Professors Lawrence Gostin and Michele Goodwin, co-faculty directors of the O'Neill Institute; the 2023-2024 staff of The Georgetown Law Journal.

Georgetown Law’s Year in Review 2023

December 20, 2023 Campus News Faculty Students

As 2023 draws to a close, we're looking back at the past year at Georgetown Law, from headline-grabbing guest speakers to innovative student and faculty achievements. Join us in reflecting on this year's memorable moments below.

Interdisciplinary legal scholar Patricia Williams of Northeastern University School of Law delivered the symposium's keynote address.

The Georgetown Law Journal Hosts 2023 Symposium on ‘Afrofuturism and the Law’

November 20, 2023 Faculty Legal Research & Writing Philosophy & Law Race & Law Students

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.

Prof. Jennifer Hillman, center, with students whose work became a new book on trade and climate change.

Student Assignments Become New Book on Global Trade Solutions to Climate Change

October 12, 2023 Campus News Environmental Law Impacting Change International Economic Law Students

Students often learn from books their professors have written, but in the case of one recent Georgetown Law seminar, the professor was so impressed by her students’ papers, she turned them into a book.

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad presented keynote remarks at the Human Rights Institute's 2023 Dash Conference. "Society asks survivors to share our stories. Don’t let it be in vain,” she said.

Georgetown Law’s Human Rights Institute Partners with Nobel Laureate to Pursue Justice for Yazidi Community

September 18, 2023 Campus News Human Rights & Immigration Impacting Change Students

Last January, Alexis Shanes, L’24, found herself in Erbil, a city in Northern Iraq. “It was the most astonishing experience, one I never thought I would be able to have in law school,” she said.

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