M. Elizabeth Magill, the former dean of Stanford Law School, provost of the University of Virginia and president of the University of Pennsylvania, has been named the executive vice president and dean of Georgetown Law.
Growing up in Atlanta, Sophia Ceniza, L’25, was fascinated by the city’s pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement and its artistic and cultural heritage — an interest she carried with her as a law student hoping to explore the intersection of legal advocacy and artistic expression.
DC Affordable Law Firm (DCALF), an innovative nonprofit law firm operated in partnership with Georgetown Law and the University of the District of Columbia, celebrated its 10th anniversary last month. Dean Emeritus William M. Treanor, who helped launch…
Two incoming 1Ls, Simon Hernandez, L’28, and Cornelia Dixon, L’28, have been named to the 2025 class of Tillman Scholars. They are among the 42 awardees selected this year from a pool of more than 1,700 applicants to the prestigious fellowship for armed forces members, veterans and military spouses.
Top legal advocates, scholars and journalists convened at Georgetown Law July 2 to analyze some of the most consequential and controversial decisions of the Supreme Court’s 2024-25 term, from immigrant deportations to nationwide injunctions to transgender rights.
The fifth Georgetown Law graduate in nine years has secured a Supreme Court clerkship. Kate Hardiman Rhodes, L’22, will clerk for Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett during the October 2025 term. A graduate of Georgetown Law’s evening program, Rhodes worked at a D.C. litigation firm while pursuing her law degree. She is the fourth evening student to clerk for the Supreme Court since 2016.
After 15 years at the helm, William M. Treanor stepped down today as Dean of Georgetown Law, Executive Vice President and the Paul Regis Dean Leadership Chair. He is succeeded by Joshua C. Teitelbaum, David Belding Professor of Law, who will serve as…
Ambassador Alfred Moses, L’56, H’13, a prominent Washington, D.C. attorney, philanthropist and a former U.S. Ambassador to Romania, has made a historic $10 million gift to Georgetown Law to fund scholarships and other support for students committed…
In 1960, Georgetown Law founded the E. Barrett Prettyman Program, which was – and still is – an innovative fellowship that trains recent law school graduates to represent indigent clients. On May 31, dozens of Prettyman alumni, along with other friends and supporters, gathered on campus to celebrate the program’s 65th anniversary and to congratulate one of its longtime leaders, Professor John Copacino, L’83, on his retirement.
After 15 eventful years, William M. Treanor, Executive Vice President, Dean of the Law Center and Paul Regis Dean Leadership Chair, steps down from the deanship at the end of this month. After a sabbatical year, he’ll return to the classroom in the fall of 2026. Recently, he took the time to reminisce about his tenure as one of the Law Center’s longest-serving deans.
Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit joined students, alumni and faculty at The Georgetown Law Journal’s 12th annual alumni banquet on May 13.