Georgetown Law Celebrates Commencement 2019
May 20, 2019 Campus News Feminism & Gender Studies Our AlumniOn Sunday, May 19, more than 1000 Georgetown Law students — 629 J.D., 446 LL.M. and 6 S.J.D. — became Georgetown Law alumni.
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor Reflects on the Role of Courts, Rule of Law
Sotomayor joined members of the Georgetown Law community for a wide-ranging conversation with Dean Treanor about pressing issues facing the judiciary today,
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Watch: 2019 Georgetown Law Commencement Ceremony
May 19, 2019 Campus NewsGeorgetown Law's 2019 Commencement ceremony took place on Sunday, May 19.
Clare Garvie (L’15) of the Center on Privacy & Technology Continues Groundbreaking Work on Police Facial Recognition
May 16, 2019 Technology, Communication, and Intellectual PropertyOn April 28, 2017, a suspect was caught on camera reportedly stealing beer from a CVS in New York City. The store surveillance camera that recorded the incident captured the suspect’s face, but it was partially obscured and highly pixelated. When the…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (H’02) to 2019 Graduates: “Know Your Power”
May 16, 2019 Congress“Look at your beautiful futures, the magnificent education you have received here, grounded in the values of Georgetown, and enlightened by the quality of your professors… We love to take great pride in the fact that you are right down the street from us, studying the laws that we have made…” said Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.)(H’02) as she addressed some of Georgetown Law’s 2019 graduates.
Research Confirms that Black Girls Feel the Sting of Adultification Bias Identified in Earlier Georgetown Law Study
May 15, 2019 Juveniles Press ReleasesWASHINGTON – Building on its groundbreaking 2017 Girlhood Interrupted study showing that adults view black girls as more adult-like and less innocent than white girls, Georgetown Law’s Center on Poverty and Inequality today released a follow-up study…
Reconstruction and the “Unfinished Revolution”: A Conversation for the Graduates Between Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Georgetown Law Dean William M. Treanor
May 15, 2019 Civil Rights & Antidiscrimination FacultyThe story of Reconstruction and its overthrow, after only a dozen years, said Henry Louis Gates, Jr., “shatters all notions that history is a straight line, drawn inexorably towards progress. And in that shattering is a lesson for all of us: vigilance.”
Before Commencement, Appellate Litigation Clinic Students Savor Success
May 14, 2019 Clinics Criminal Law FacultyJust before graduation, Claire Cahill (L’19), Aaron Steeg (L’19) and Dominick Schumacher (L’19) had an extra reason to celebrate.
Criminal Defense & Prisoner Advocacy Clinic Advocates for Maryland Woman Seeking Release from Prison
May 14, 2019 Clinics Criminal Law Faculty Impacting ChangeFransharon Jackson has done what’s been asked of her since she was sentenced in 1998 to life in prison.
IIEL’s DebtCon Continues Swift Growth, Tackles Sovereign Debt
May 13, 2019 International Economic Law“I don’t think there is any time in our history,” said Georgetown Law Dean William M. Treanor, “in which sovereign debt issues have been as salient as they are today.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Address Georgetown Law Graduating Class
May 10, 2019 CongressWHAT On Thursday, May 16, United States House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi will visit Georgetown University Law Center for a conversation with Dean William Treanor and the graduating class. WHO Speaker Nancy Pelosi, United States House of…