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What I’m Working On: Associate Professor Eun Hee Han, L’07, on Accent-Based Discrimination

November 25, 2025 Civil Rights & Antidiscrimination Faculty Legal Research & Writing Race & Law What I'm Working On

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.

Prof. Eloise Pasachoff was honored with the President’s Award for Distinguished Scholar-Teachers at Georgetown’s spring faculty convocation in April.

What I’m Working On: Professor Eloise Pasachoff on Federal Appropriations Power

August 12, 2025 Campus News Faculty Legislation and Administrative Law What I'm Working On

For Professor Eloise Pasachoff, legal scholarship isn’t just a means of understanding executive spending power and appropriations law — it’s a way to improve the processes at the core of government.

What I’m Working On: Professor Aderson François on Reconstruction History

February 11, 2025 Civil Rights & Antidiscrimination Constitutional Law & Theory Faculty Race & Law What I'm Working On

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.

What I’m Working On: Professor Mark Jia on U.S.-China Conflict

January 22, 2025 Faculty International & Comparative Law What I'm Working On

As a comparative and transnational law scholar focused on the United States and China, Professor Mark Jia is guided by two questions: What is the relationship between the law and authoritarianism, and what is the relationship between the law and geopolitics?

What I’m Working On: Professor Kristelia García on Intellectual Property and AI

October 10, 2024 Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law Faculty Technology, Communication, and Intellectual Property What I'm Working On

Having practiced entertainment law for nearly a decade before joining academia, Professor Kristelia García still finds scholarly inspiration in the music industry — especially when it comes to cutting-edge issues at the intersection of copyright, law and economics.

What I’m Working On: Professor Emily Satterthwaite on Taxation and Equity

June 25, 2024 Faculty Tax Law What I'm Working On

For Professor Emily Satterthwaite, the tax system isn't merely a matter of dollars and percentages — it's at the crux of the laws and policies that shape equity at all levels of society.

What I’m Working On: Professor Paul Rothstein on Evidence Law

April 4, 2024 Constitutional Law & Theory Criminal Law Faculty Legal Research & Writing What I'm Working On

Among the treasured books in Professor Paul Rothstein's office is a signed first-edition volume by John Henry Wigmore, the lawyer and legal scholar whom Rothstein describes as the "Einstein of evidence law" for his contributions to the field at the turn of the 20th century.