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.
With an eye toward identifying the advocates and strategies that will guide the next generation of climate justice work, on March 31, Georgetown Law’s Human Rights Institute (HRI) convened “Futures at Stake: Climate Change, Human Rights, and Youth Advocacy,” the 2026 Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights.
The winner of the most recent season of “Big Brother,” the president and CEO of an artificial intelligence (AI) governance and literacy nonprofit and the chief of staff to a U.S. congresswoman were among the alumni who represented Georgetown Law at the 2026 Georgetown University Women’s Forum March 19-21.
For the students who took part in this year’s National Security Crisis Law: Edge Technologies Simulation (“Sim”), time was of the essence. A foreign actor had attacked a U.S. satellite fleet — with potentially dire consequences. Gathered for a National Security Council meeting, the group had to weigh options such as diplomatic protest, trade sanctions and cyberattacks in deciding how to respond.
On February 28, more than 180 Georgetown Law alumni, faculty, staff and guests gathered on campus for “OPICS30,” a celebration of the 30th anniversary of the founding of the school’s Office of Public Interest and Community Service (OPICS).
Leading constitutional and educational law scholar Justin Driver, the Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law at Yale Law School, joined the Georgetown Law community on Feb. 25 to deliver the 2026 Thomas F. Ryan Lecture, “The Fall of Affirmative Action.”
When it came to the practical possibility of the U.S. government paying reparations to Black Americans in response to the enduring harms of slavery and racism, Professor and Georgetown Law alumna Dorothy Brown, L’83, once considered herself a skeptic.
Five Georgetown Law 2Ls and three recent graduates have been selected to receive scholarships and fellowships to support their pursuit of public interest careers. They are the first to receive awards from the historic $10 million public interest fund…
This Valentine’s Day, we asked Hoya Lawya couples to share their love stories. From elevator rides to Con Law classes, meet five couples who found love on New Jersey Avenue.
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.
High court judges from across Latin America and the Caribbean were joined last month at Georgetown Law by scholars and legal advocates for the second annual “Judicial Dialogues on Health and the Law” hosted by the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law’s Center for Health and Human Rights.