The conversation series brings leading legal advocates to campus to offer candid guidance to outgoing Law Center graduates as they embark on their legal careers.
When Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein first became a prosecutor nearly 30 years ago, a criminal investigation of a business might have entailed executing a search warrant, going into a building, and carting out boxes of documents to review as potential evidence. Today, such records are stored in digital formats, possibly in foreign countries, generated by employees (and potential perpetrators) who might not even be on site.
“The problems that we are confronting, whether that’s the struggle around the world for good jobs that pay a living wage, whether that’s climate change, whether that’s the widening of the wealth gap or the rise of extremism and threats to national security — these are not problems…that can be solved by the United States alone,” Georgetown Law Professor from Practice Jennifer Hillman told a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on November 27.
WASHINGTON - On Thursday, Nov. 29, Georgetown Law's Center on National Security and the Law and the Department of Justice's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section will hold a one-day cybercrime symposium featuring a lunchtime keynote by Deputy…
When James Forman Jr., a former Georgetown Law and current Yale Law faculty member, was working as a public defender in Washington, D.C., in the 1990s, he represented a 15-year-old client named Brandon who had pled guilty to gun and marijuana possession. Forman was requesting probation; the prosecutor wanted Brandon sent to Oak Hill, D.C.’s now-notorious juvenile facility. The judge chose Oak Hill — to Forman’s fury. The same racial injustice that motivated him to become a public defender, he realized, was being used to lock his client away.
The jury is still out (so to speak) on whether justice was served Wednesday night at Georgetown Law’s Hart Auditorium. But those who witnessed — and participated in — the Theater of Law production of a scene from Aeschylus’ Eumenides could all agree that the night was a moving and thought-provoking success.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In advance of a Wednesday public hearing and vote on the City of Portland’s proposed Protest Safety Ordinance, Mary McCord, Senior Litigator at Georgetown Law’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP), submitted a statement to the Portland City Council, on behalf of ICAP, opining on the constitutionality of the ordinance and endorsing its intention to protect free speech and public safety.
Advances in financial technology are changing market and regulatory ecosystems in ways unimaginable a generation ago. These new developments offer exciting opportunities as well as enormous challenges — and Georgetown Law’s Institute of International…
On the same day that CNN and Jim Acosta sued President Trump and White House officials for suspending Acosta’s press credentials following a November 7 press conference, Georgetown Law’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection and the…
