Laura Peña (L’11) and Erika Pinheiro (L’10, MPP’10) have never met, but they share a common bond in addition to their alma mater. Confronted with recent policy shifts against asylum-seekers and immigrants from Latin America, each woman quit her job to take up their cause.
In an academic lecture on events surrounding the 1787 drafting of the U.S. Constitution, Georgetown Law Dean William M. Treanor showed the Law Center community how much he enjoys scholarship and teaching — in addition to serving as the school’s 16th dean.
WASHINGTON – Technologist Ashkan Soltani is joining Georgetown Law as a distinguished fellow of the law center’s Institute for Technology Law & Policy and of its Center on Privacy & Technology.
Formerly chief technologist of the Federal Trade Commission…
Georgetown Law’s Native American Law Students Association (NALSA) partnered with the law firm Holland & Knight on Friday, September 20, hosting a Policy & Pizza series on efforts to expand tribal sovereignty in the 116th Congress.
“Today, I want to talk about where most of us live,” said Georgetown Law Professor Sheila R. Foster, following her installation as the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Urban Law & Policy on October 2. Foster began her address, entitled “Who Owns the City,” by noting that today, 83 percent of Americans live in urban metropolitan areas, with 90 percent projected by 2050. “The world follows the rest of this pattern.”
Georgetown Law Associate Dean and Professor Paul Ohm and Alexandra Givens, founding executive director of the Institute for Technology Law & Policy, have won a $36,000 grant from the Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN) for their initiative…