Sotomayor joined members of the Georgetown Law community for a wide-ranging conversation with Dean Treanor about pressing issues facing the judiciary today,
Scott K. Ginsburg (L’78) has committed $10.5 million to Georgetown University Law Center, the largest one-time commitment in the history of Georgetown Law. The gift supports expansion of the Law Center campus, near Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
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Professor Mary Sarah Bilder, one of the country’s most accomplished historians with expertise in legal and constitutional history, delivered the 2019 Thomas F. Ryan Lecture at Georgetown Law on March 6.
In an attempt to explain to the Supreme Court that video evidence doesn’t always yield a clear outcome, the students in Georgetown Law’s Appellate Courts Immersion Clinic, working with an Arkansas civil rights law firm, turned to a sports analogy…
“Despite some heavy rhetoric these days, the U.S. and the E.U. remain firm allies and friends,” said European Union Trade Commissioner Cecelia Malmström, speaking at Georgetown Law’s 40th Annual International Trade Update on March 7 to 8.
Nicole Fauster (L’20) met Cedric Asiavugwa (L’19), her Georgetown Law public interest mentor, in the fall of 2017, when she entered Georgetown Law as a member of its Public Interest Law Scholars program.
They were in the same mentorship group in PILS, later known as the Blume Public Interest Scholars Program. In her second year, as president of the Muslim Law Students Association, Fauster also worked with Cedric, as the friendly 3L worked in Campus Ministry.
“He was Campus Ministry’s go-to guy,” Fauster said. “I definitely saw him on a very regular basis, putting together programming…whenever you passed by Campus Ministry, he was at that table, doing work, assisting the chaplains. One of the reasons I would go to Campus Ministry when I was going from class to class was to say hi to Cedric. He is definitely going to be someone whose loss will be deeply felt.”
“We live in very, very challenging times — times when it is said that our democracy struggles...,” Professor Victoria Nourse said, following her installation as the inaugural Ralph V. Whitworth Professor of Law in February.
“One might think…
Dear Members of the Georgetown Community,
With a heavy heart, we write to share the terrible news that Cedric Asiavugwa, a third-year student at Georgetown Law, a member of Georgetown University’s Campus Ministry and Residential Minister on the second…
Since she was elected to Congress in 2013, Rep. Lois Frankel (D-Fla.)(L’73) has successfully advanced progress for women and girls — in the United States and around the world.
“Our topic today is something that we normally take for granted. It’s something we ought to be able to take for granted. It’s something, sadly, that we need to start talking about and thinking about a lot more these days,” said George T. Conway III of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.
Georgetown Law Professor Eloise Pasachoff and Professor Joshua Teitelbaum have been named the 2019 Williams Research Professors. The Williams Professorships, established through the generosity of Agnes N. Williams (L’54), recognize and support the scholarly…