As 2025 draws to a close, we’re looking back at the past year at Georgetown Law, from headline-grabbing guest speakers and alumni achievements to the work of students and faculty in clinics, courts and beyond.
WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, March 9, 2021, Georgetown Law's Human Rights Institute will host a conversation on what's next for human rights in the Biden Administration. WHAT A military coup in Myanmar. Genocide against the Uyghurs in China. Humanitarian…
WASHINGTON & NEW DELHI – On Friday, March 5, 2021, legal experts from the U.S. and India consider how divergent approaches to patents implicate access to the Covid-19 vaccine.
WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, March 9, 2021, Georgetown University Law Center's environmental & administrative law experts will discuss upcoming changes under the Biden Administration.
Professor Robin A. Lenhardt (LL.M.’04), a leading scholar on race and the family, has returned to Georgetown Law to serve on the faculty and co-lead the university’s new interdisciplinary Racial Justice Institute.
For Georgetown Law Professor Chris Brummer, the nation’s glaring lack of Black financial regulators is tied directly to the long history of economic injustice. In his keynote address at the Security and Exchange Commission's Black History Month Celebration…
Days after a video of police pepper spraying and handcuffing a 9-year-old Black girl went viral, Blume Professor of Law Kristin Henning posed a fundamental question. “How do we cultivate a society in which we treat all kids like kids?” Nearly…
Georgetown University Law Center has received transformational gifts from two of its most generous and dedicated alumni.
Professor Rosa Brooks’s resume has long included more than academic achievements. She’s worked for the Department of Defense and Department of State, been a newspaper columnist and consulted for human rights groups, to name a few. Four years ago,…
WASHINGTON – On Friday, February 5, 2021, Georgetown Law’s Juvenile Justice Clinic & Initiative and Georgetown University’s Psychology Department will host “The Dehumanization of Children of Color: Rethinking Policing & Policy.”
From Twitter banning a sitting president, to Robinhood halting GameStop trades amidst the guerilla campaign to hike shares, recent events underscore the influence of what Professor Anupam Chander refers to as the “new gatekeepers.”