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.
In his new book “The Nation at Sea,” Professor Kevin Arlyck argues that the federal courts played a decisive — and largely overlooked — role in establishing United States sovereignty and shaping foreign relations in the decades following the nation’s founding.
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 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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.