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The best part of law school orientation? For Alex Michie, it was as simple as waiting for the bus, where he met new classmates who were also headed across town to Georgetown University’s Hilltop campus for the annual Faculty Moot Court.

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2024 Beaudry Competition finalists pose with members of the judging panel. L-R: Attorney Zoe Jacoby; Luke Dykowski, L’26; Prof. Laura Donohue; Jen Fridman, L'26; Judge Anthony Trenga; Judge Timothy Kelly, L'97; Allyson Rosenblum, L'26; Talia Paskuski, L’26, and attorney Gregory Cui.

First-Year Students Face Judges in 2024 Beaudry Moot Court Competition

April 25, 2024 Campus News Students

Having beat out some 70 competitors, four finalists faced a panel of real-life judges and practitioners as they made their arguments in the last round of the 73rd annual Robert J. Beaudry Moot Court Competition on April 3. The competition is held each spring and offers first-year students the chance to practice their written and oral advocacy skills — with top performers earning an invitation to join the Appellate Advocacy Division of Georgetown Law’s Barristers’ Council.

Rep. Mikie Sherrill, L’07, on Career Flexibility and Public Service Values

April 18, 2024 Campus News Congress Our Alumni Public Interest & Community Service

U.S. Representative Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.), L’07, returned to her law school alma mater on April 15 to retrace the path that led her from piloting Navy helicopters to studying law at Georgetown to running for – and serving in – Congress.

Participants at the 2019 Women's March in in Los Angeles championed ratification of the ERA.

A Path Forward for the ERA? Lawmakers, Academics and Advocates Come Together to Strategize

April 18, 2024 Campus News Congress Constitutional Law & Theory Faculty Feminism & Gender Studies Impacting Change

In December 1923, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was first introduced in the U.S. House and Senate. Coming just after the passage of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, the ERA aimed to give women’s equality full Constitutional protection.

What I’m Working On: Professor Paul Rothstein, Evidence Expert

April 4, 2024 Constitutional Law & Theory Criminal Law Faculty Legal Research & Writing

Among the treasured books in Professor Paul Rothstein's office is a signed first-edition volume by John Henry Wigmore, the lawyer and legal scholar whom Rothstein describes as the "Einstein of evidence law" for his contributions to the field at the turn of the 20th century.

L-R: Prof. Lawrence Gostin, Sima Samar, Karen Joy Greenberg, Prof. Michele Goodwin, Saman Zia-Zarifi and Houssam al-Nahhas

Georgetown Law Professors Defend Health, Humanitarian Law at ‘Attacks on Health Care: A Global Crisis’

April 3, 2024 Campus News Human Rights & Immigration International & Comparative Law

Dr. Houssam al-Nahhas hoped to become a cardiac surgeon. Instead, he was tortured and detained for providing medical care during the Syrian uprising — and was forced to sign a pledge promising not to treat patients with alleged anti-government ties upon his release. "I just could not imagine how providing health care can be a crime, until I experienced it firsthand," he said of the experience, which motivated him to devote his career to documenting similar attacks on health care providers.

Hoya Lawyas coach Chase Gordon, L'24, at center, psyching up his team.

Home Court 2024: Hoya Lawyas Victorious Over GW Law Rowdy Revs in Charity Fundraiser

April 3, 2024 Campus News Faculty Our Alumni Public Interest & Community Service Students

The 37th annual Home Court charity basketball game, held March 28 at the Gonzaga College High School gym, was a fast-paced match between students, faculty and staff from Georgetown Law (the Hoya Lawyas) and from the George Washington University Law School…

Georgetown Law's Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection Announces Historic Settlement in 2020 Fraudulent Electors Case

March 28, 2024 Campus News Constitutional Law & Theory Election Law

On March 4, Georgetown Law's Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP), Law Forward and Stafford Rosenbaum LLP announced a historic settlement in first-of-its-kind litigation against participants in a fraudulent electors scheme intended to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

L-R: SCI Director Debbie Shrager with student research assistants Blake Phillips, L'24, Hasala Ariyaratne, L’25, Jordan Dyer, L’25, Zenia Grzebin, L’25, and SCI Assistant Director Maddie Sloat, L’27

Georgetown Law Students Witness Professors in Supreme Court Arguments

March 21, 2024 Campus News Constitutional Law & Theory Faculty Students

For most law students, a chance to see a Supreme Court argument live and in person is thrilling. But the chance to see two professors from your own school argue opposing sides of a case is an even rarer treat.

Professors Cole and Katyal are both veterans of Supreme Court oral arguments; this composite image is made of past photos of each answering media questions after leaving the Court.

Hoya v. Hoya: Georgetown Law Professors Cole & Katyal to Face Off at Supreme Court

March 14, 2024 Campus News Constitutional Law & Theory Faculty

Georgetown Law faculty are no strangers to the U.S. Supreme Court. In any given year, you can find our professors as authors of briefs, as amici and as oral advocates. But it’s never happened that the advocates on both sides of a case were both Georgetown Law faculty members… until now.

Georgetown Center for the Constitution Awards Cooley Book Prize to Yale Law School’s Jack M. Balkin

March 14, 2024 Campus News Constitutional Law & Theory

WASHINGTON - The Georgetown Center for the Constitution is pleased to announce that Jack M. Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School, has been awarded the Thomas M. Cooley Book Prize of $50,000 for his…

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