Before the fall semester began, incoming J.D. and LL.M. students had the opportunity to get a taste of what law school is like and to start exploring the nation's capital.
Research from the Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession at Georgetown Law and Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute shows that traditional models have “broken apart” from new competition; “unprecedented levels” of client and talent poaching.
Matt Blaze, an expert in computer and network security and one of the world’s leading cryptographers, has joined the university as a computer science and law professor.
In the summer of 2016, Dean William M. Treanor met with Vibha Datta Makhija (LL.M.’92) — the youngest and the third woman to be designated as a Senior Advocate by the Supreme Court of India — in Washington, D.C. Treanor invited Makhija to join Georgetown Law’s Asian Law Alumni Advisory Board (AALAB). And since then, she’s only looked ahead.
WASHINGTON – Former FTC Commissioner Terrell McSweeny is joining Georgetown Law’s Institute for Technology Law & Policy as a distinguished fellow.
In a digital economy, taxation needs to adapt as much as securities and financial regulation or indeed, any other area of the law.
The road from the Mississippi Delta to Washington, D.C., is about 1,000 miles. For Ty Pinkins (L’20), the journey took nearly 40 years.
When Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein first became a prosecutor nearly 30 years ago, a criminal investigation of a business might have entailed executing a search warrant, going into a building, and carting out boxes of documents to review as potential evidence. Today, such records are stored in digital formats, possibly in foreign countries, generated by employees (and potential perpetrators) who might not even be on site.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Treasury Chip Harter to Deliver Keynote
“The problems that we are confronting, whether that’s the struggle around the world for good jobs that pay a living wage, whether that’s climate change, whether that’s the widening of the wealth gap or the rise of extremism and threats to national security — these are not problems…that can be solved by the United States alone,” Georgetown Law Professor from Practice Jennifer Hillman told a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on November 27.
Nicqelle Godfrey would not take no for an answer.