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Georgetown Law Federal Legislation Clinic Helps Catalyze White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health

October 14, 2022 Campus News Clinics Congress Impacting Change Legislation and Administrative Law Public Interest & Community Service

Students in the Georgetown Law Federal Legislation Clinic were glued to the clinicโ€™s televisions on September 28 as they watched the live stream of the 2022 White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health โ€“ an event they helped make happen.

As a New Supreme Court Term Begins, So Do Georgetown Lawโ€™s Supreme Court Institute Moots

September 30, 2022 Campus News Constitutional Law & Theory

With just days to go until the Supreme Court opens a new term, the team at the Georgetown Law Supreme Court Institute is at its busiest. Last week, it held its marquee public events: two expert panels previewing the highest-profile cases being argued in the coming months, one for members of the media and one for law students. And its main line of work โ€“ one veiled in a bit of secrecy โ€“ began this week, with its first Supreme Court moots of the October Term 2022.

Workersโ€™ Rights Institute Executive Director Mark Gaston Pearce presents opening testimony at a House Committee on Education and Labor hearing. Photo courtesy of the Committee.

Workersโ€™ Rights Institute Director Testifies at Congressional Hearing on Labor Organizing

September 21, 2022 Faculty Labor Law

Union activity is currently surging in the United States. Efforts to organize workers at large companies like Starbucks and Amazon have captured imaginations and dominated the headlines for months. According to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), in the first three quarters of the current fiscal year, union representation petition filings rose 58% over last year.

Photo from 2022 New Member Induction Ceremony courtesy of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Georgetown Law Dean William M. Treanor Inducted Into American Academy of Arts and Sciences

September 20, 2022 Campus News Faculty

Georgetown Law Dean William M. Treanor was formally inducted this month into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. This honorary society, founded in 1780, convenes experts from a broad range of disciplines to โ€œcultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity and happiness of a free, independent and virtuous people.โ€