On the ‘Frontline’: International Alumni Battle Crimes Against Humanity
May 23, 2019 Human Rights & Immigration Our AlumniFor two Georgetown Law alumni, ‘The Trial of Ratko Mladic’ is more than a movie.
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Liz Magill Named Executive Vice President and Dean of Georgetown Law
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.
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Appellate Courts Immersion Clinic: Immersed in the Justice of Contract Law
May 21, 2019 Clinics Legal Research & WritingThink of the impact cases that Georgetown Law clinics generally take on, and a state-law contract dispute over a home-mortgage modification might not be the first thing that comes to mind.
Thursday: Georgetown Law Launches Searchable Foreign Intelligence Law Collection
May 20, 2019 National Security LawWASHINGTON – On Thursday, May 23, Georgetown Law’s Center on National Security and the Law will host a breakfast briefing to launch the Foreign Intelligence Law Collection. WHAT In an effort to increase transparency and understanding of the U.S…
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.
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.