Sotomayor joined members of the Georgetown Law community for a wide-ranging conversation with Dean Treanor about pressing issues facing the judiciary today,
When James Forman Jr., a former Georgetown Law and current Yale Law faculty member, was working as a public defender in Washington, D.C., in the 1990s, he represented a 15-year-old client named Brandon who had pled guilty to gun and marijuana possession. Forman was requesting probation; the prosecutor wanted Brandon sent to Oak Hill, D.C.’s now-notorious juvenile facility. The judge chose Oak Hill — to Forman’s fury. The same racial injustice that motivated him to become a public defender, he realized, was being used to lock his client away.
The jury is still out (so to speak) on whether justice was served Wednesday night at Georgetown Law’s Hart Auditorium. But those who witnessed — and participated in — the Theater of Law production of a scene from Aeschylus’ Eumenides could all agree that the night was a moving and thought-provoking success.
Advances in financial technology are changing market and regulatory ecosystems in ways unimaginable a generation ago. These new developments offer exciting opportunities as well as enormous challenges — and Georgetown Law’s Institute of International…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In advance of a Wednesday public hearing and vote on the City of Portland’s proposed Protest Safety Ordinance, Mary McCord, Senior Litigator at Georgetown Law’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP), submitted a statement to the Portland City Council, on behalf of ICAP, opining on the constitutionality of the ordinance and endorsing its intention to protect free speech and public safety.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Georgetown Law’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press today teamed up to file an amicus (or “friend-of-the-court”) brief in support of the lawsuit filed…
On the same day that CNN and Jim Acosta sued President Trump and White House officials for suspending Acosta’s press credentials following a November 7 press conference, Georgetown Law’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection and the…
WASHINGTON – On Thursday, Nov. 15, Yale Law Professor and Pulitzer-Prize Winner James Forman Jr. will deliver Georgetown Law’s 2018-2019 Philip A. Hart Lecture.
WHAT
Leading experts will discuss the most interesting issues related to national security in the courts today. Topics to include: the impact of the Trump administration and Brett Kavanaugh appointment to the Supreme Court on current cases; surveillance…
With latest election results, at least 104 of 138 elected and appointed officials accused of sexual misconduct will be out of office, new Georgetown Law research finds.
When the 116th United States Congress convenes in January, it will include one newly elected Georgetown Law alumna — bringing the total number of Law Center graduates serving in Congress to 13. Five serve in the Senate and 8 will serve in the House…
