Sotomayor joined members of the Georgetown Law community for a wide-ranging conversation with Dean Treanor about pressing issues facing the judiciary today,
“This is an area in urgent need of congressional action,” says Georgetown Law Professor Laura Donohue, who recently testified before Congress on the topic of warrantless searches of electronic devices at U.S. borders.
Ten days after the Supreme Court decided Carpenter v. United States — holding that the government’s acquisition of a criminal defendant’s historical cell phone records was a Fourth Amendment search — a group of experts gathered at Georgetown Law…
One day before the Federal Communications Commission voted to loosen rules on local broadcast ownership — in the midst of the proposed Sinclair-Tribune merger that would create a broadcasting behemoth — Georgetown Law’s Institute for Technology…
In order to understand laws, court cases and policies related to technology, one must first understand technology — which is why 40 congressional staffers from both sides of the aisle willingly spent two days of their August recess at Georgetown Law…
Laura Moy — deputy director of Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy & Technology — began a landmark conference at Georgetown Law on U.S. government surveillance of immigrants by reading from the Ninth Circuit’s recent decision striking down the…
On Monday, March 6, Georgetown Law students got the opportunity to witness the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in action — on Law Center turf. A three-judge panel sitting in the Supreme Court Institute’s Moot Courtroom heard four cases…
As Michelle K. Lee — undersecretary of commerce for intellectual property and director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) — tells the story, when President Barack Obama moved into the Oval Office in 2009, he chose to display three patent…
“Technology is transforming the legal profession in every way…” said Georgetown Law Dean William M. Treanor, speaking at a recent event celebrating the launch of the new Institute for Technology Law & Policy and the first issue of the Georgetown…
Examining “The Perpetual Lineup: Unregulated Police Face Recognition in America” — the new groundbreaking report by Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy & Technology — readers will find the name of Clare Garvie (L’15) right at the top. A 2009…