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Professor Anna Gelpern and Professor Adam Levitin will host a Law and Macroeconomics conference at Georgetown Law, featuring a number of top law and economics scholars from Georgetown and beyond.

Professor Anna Gelpern, Professor Adam Levitin To Host Groundbreaking Law and Macroeconomics Conference at Georgetown Law

September 19, 2019 Business & Financial Regulation

Professor Anna Gelpern and Professor Adam Levitin met on a bus in Connecticut, going to an academic conference for junior scholars in May 2008. Levitin, a bankruptcy, commercial law, and financial regulation expert, had joined the Georgetown Law faculty the year before. Levitin would later recruit Gelpern, then a law professor at American University, to Georgetown Law in 2013.

Christian Boxley (C'18) and Jackson “Chance” Cochran (L'21), center, won gold together at the men's World Under 24 (U24) Ultimate (Frisbee) Championships in Heidelburg, Germany, in July 2019 ― both as members of the United States U24 Men’s Ultimate National Team.

Ultimate (Frisbee) Victory for Chance Cochran (L’21) and Christian Boxley (C'18)

September 17, 2019 Campus News

When Jackson “Chance” Cochran (L'21) met Christian Boxley (C'18) while playing for the Washington, D.C.,’s top men’s Ultimate (Frisbee) team "Truck Stop," they expected to do great things. What they didn’t know was that “great things” would extend internationally, winning gold at the men's World Under 24 (U24) Ultimate Championships in Heidelburg, Germany, in July 2019 ― both as members of the United States U24 Men’s Ultimate National Team ― and providing a strong Georgetown connection in the process.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser delivered the 2019-2020 Philip A. Hart Memorial Lecture on September 4.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser Delivers the 2019-2020 Hart Lecture

September 6, 2019 Congress

“I am here to make the case for D.C. statehood,” said Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser, as she delivered the 2019-2020 Philip A. Hart Memorial Lecture at Georgetown Law on September 4. “To underscore the great injustice of disenfranchising more than 700,000 Washingtonians, taxpaying Americans, and to shed light on the fact that the injustices don’t end there — that our lack of statehood has far-reaching consequences on the day-to-day lives of the people I represent.”