As Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) observed — due to regulations enacted in the United States since the 1970s — a toaster with a one in five chance of burning down one’s house could hardly be sold on the market by the 2000s.
Just how private is location data kept by cellphone providers? Join us after the Supreme Court renders its decision in Carpenter v. United States to hear experts reflect on implications for policy and practice.
Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-CA) and a panel of experts will discuss strategies to promote environmental justice at a time of receding federal enforcement at Georgetown Law on Monday. Rep. Ruiz will offer keynote remarks and discuss the pending bill he coauthored…
At the 31st Annual Home Court Charity Basketball Game, members of Congress (Hill’s Angels) and Georgetown Law faculty and staff (Hoya Lawyas) will hit the basketball court to to raise money for the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless. Started by…
In 1776, as British forces were landing in New York during the Revolutionary War, Harvard University moved classes to Concord, Massachusetts, and Yale moved to Hartford County.
On Friday, April 6, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg visited Georgetown Law to celebrate a new lecture series named in her honor.
Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, former Deputy Attorneys General David Ogden, James Cole, Jamie Gorelick, Gary Grindler, and Donald Ayer, and former Acting Attorney General Peter Keisler join amicus brief representing broad consensus view that prosecutors have special obligation to disclose potentially material exculpatory and impeaching information.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will visit Georgetown Law to inaugurate the Annual Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecture Series. Justice Ginsburg will talk to students about her life and work in a discussion with her biographers, Professor Wendy…
What is former Attorney General Eric Holder most proud of? The time he spent (more than 30 years) in government service.
“February 14 was supposed to be a day of love and happiness…” Dara Jaffe, a freshman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, said at Georgetown Law on March 26 — speaking just days after the March for Our Lives demonstrations in Washington, D.C., and around the world.
In new brief, Georgetown Law’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP) and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University explain why deportation in retaliation for protected speech violates the First Amendment The…
Justice Clarence Thomas may disagree with some of his colleagues on points of law now and then, but the atmosphere at the Supreme Court is a civil one, he told law students from across the country, gathered for the 2018 Federalist Society National Student Symposium hosted by Georgetown Law on March 10.
