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.
“The idea was not to just take a case, but change the law.” - Professor Brian Wolfman, Appellate Immersion Clinic
The Center for Transnational Legal Studies (CTLS) in London, England is a unique institution for students and scholars interested in international, comparative and transnational law. Georgetown Law is one of the founding members of what is now a 21-member…
Professor Emeritus Sherman L. Cohn, F’54, L’57, L’60, the longest-serving member of the Georgetown faculty and a “triple Hoya” with three Georgetown University degrees, died on August 5.
Before coming to Georgetown Law, Zach Rosenfeld, L'25, interned for a U.S. Senator and got a peek at how lawmaking and legal practice overlap on Capitol Hill.
A few years ago, Joshua Teitelbaum, the David Belding Professor of Law at Georgetown Law, learned an interesting fact about the 1L students enrolled in Georgetown Law’s “Curriculum B,” an interdisciplinary, theory-focused alternative to the traditional…
The Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, which provides accessible legal services to and engages in advocacy on behalf of the homeless and vulnerable in the nation’s capital, has Georgetown Law knit into its history and work. Patricia Mullahy Fugere…
As the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the final decisions of its 2023-2024 term — including a controversial ruling in Trump v. United States that significantly bolsters presidential power — Georgetown Law's O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law gathered leading legal advocates and journalists for its inaugural "Supreme Court Term in Review" roundtable on July 1. Before an audience of more than 600 in-person and virtual attendees, the panel engaged in a lively discussion of the high court's far-reaching decisions on matters including free speech, reproductive rights, the power of federal agencies and presidential immunity.
Georgetown Law honored four faculty members this spring for their excellence in teaching and service to the Law Center community.
There are a dozen student-run legal journals at Georgetown Law, each publishing original academic scholarship on themes ranging from deepfakes to medical malpractice settlements to prosecutorial reform. In addition to selecting and editing articles, comments…
On June 27, the Pat Tillman Foundation named Karim Ibrahim, L’26, to its 2024 class of Tillman Scholars. Ibrahim, a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, is among 60 armed forces members, veterans and military spouses selected this year from a pool of nearly…