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.
“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.
WASHINGTON – 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…
The 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.”
“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.”
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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.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi, United States House of…
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On Tuesday, May 14, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University, will visit Georgetown Law for a conversation with Dean William Treanor and the graduating class…
Barbara Underwood, Solicitor General at the Office of the Attorney General, State of New York, and the Honorable Emmet G. Sullivan, District Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, will each receive honorary degrees at Georgetown Law’s 2019 Commencement on Sunday, May 19. Underwood, a graduate of Georgetown Law, will deliver the Commencement address.
"We are delighted that in a few short weeks, Solicitor General Underwood and Judge Sullivan will be participating in our 147th Commencement," said Georgetown Law Dean William M. Treanor, noting that both honorary degree recipients are distinguished members of the legal profession and tremendous role models for young lawyers. "We are especially pleased that Underwood, a member of the Georgetown Law class of 1969, will be returning to address the Class of 2019."
The O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown Law has teamed up with The Lancet — the world’s oldest and best known medical journal — to examine how law can be used to advance the right to health in the United States and around the world.
