Friday: “Human Rights & Today’s Vulnerable Migrants”
March 27, 2019 Press ReleasesGeorgetown Law’s 2019 Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights to feature Keynote on “Racial Borders” by UN Special Rapporteur
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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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Friday: “Women’s Rights in the Criminal Justice System”
March 27, 2019 Press ReleasesThe American Criminal Law Review symposium explores experiences of women lawyers, police, suspects, prisoners and victims of crime
Congressional and Georgetown Law staff to face off at ‘Home Court’ Charity Basketball Game
March 25, 2019 Press ReleasesMembers of Congress (Hill’s Angels) and Georgetown Law faculty and staff (Hoya Lawyas) will hit the basketball court for the 32nd Annual Home Court Charity Basketball Game. The game will raise money for the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless.…
Jenadee Nanini (L’17, LL.M.’18): Lending a Voice to the Voiceless
March 25, 2019 Civil Rights & Antidiscrimination Clinics Impacting Change Our Alumni Public Interest & Community ServiceAs a child in rural Montana, Jenadee Nanini (L’17, LL.M.’18) knew at an early age that her parents had hearts for those in need.
Professor Rosa Brooks Installed as the Inaugural Scott K. Ginsburg Professor
March 22, 2019 Civil Rights & Antidiscrimination Criminal Law Human Rights & Immigration International & Comparative Law Race & Law“Just as our recent wars have mostly been against those who are poor, those who can easily be demonized and viewed as ‘other’ by the average American — so too, our criminal law has tended to be enforced primarily and disproportionately against the poor and people of color,” said Professor Rosa Brooks, who was installed as Georgetown Law’s inaugural Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Policy on March 20.
Georgetown Law Hosts Oral Arguments of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
March 21, 2019 Criminal Law Election Law Technology, Communication, and Intellectual PropertySection 3 first year students Natalie Tverdynin (L'21), Jeremy Penn (L’21) and Akshay Nelakurti (L’21) had some unexpected free time on the morning of March 21. So the three friends went to hear oral arguments of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit — with Chief Judge Merrick B. Garland (H’18), Judge Sri Srinivasan and Judge A. Raymond Randolph.
Manhattan DA Cy Vance (L’82) Meets Public Interest Students
March 20, 2019 Criminal Law Our AlumniWhen Cyrus R. Vance (L’82) became the Manhattan District Attorney in 2009, he noticed that the numbers of men and women of color being prosecuted for crime was the same as the number being prosecuted 30 years ago, when he was an assistant DA. Vance asked himself, Why is this picture the same? Does this system of justice keep us safer? Is it fair? What can we do to change it?
$10.5 Million Gift from Scott K. Ginsburg (L’78) Supports Capital Expansion of Georgetown Law
March 18, 2019 Campus News Our AlumniScott 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. [caption…
Boston Law Professor Mary Sarah Bilder Delivers Ryan Lecture
March 18, 2019 Constitutional Law & Theory Feminism & Gender StudiesProfessor 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.
Appellate Courts Immersion Clinic: Honing Skills, Helping Clients
March 18, 2019 Clinics Criminal Law Impacting ChangeIn 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…