Thursday: “Notes From The Front: Defending Civil Liberties in the Age of Trump”
February 5, 2019 Press ReleasesProfessor David Cole returns to Georgetown Law to discuss his work – and next moves – as ACLU’s national legal director
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Law Grads Share Insights from Work in Politics, AI, Entrepreneurship and More at 2026 Georgetown Women’s Forum Georgetown Law Celebrates 30 Years of Its Public Interest Careers Office (and the Community It Built) Yale Law’s Justin Driver Discusses ‘The Fall of Affirmative Action’ and Path Forward for Higher Education
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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Georgetown Law Hosts ABI Health Care Conference Featuring Don McGahn
January 29, 2019 Health LawRegulatory reform in health care “helps economic growth, helps promote innovation, because it frees people to think a little differently,” former White House counsel Donald McGahn said in opening remarks at the January 17 American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) conference on health care, hosted by Georgetown Law Continuing Legal Education.
Alternative Legal Service Provider Use by Corporations and Law Firms Exceeding Projections, Creating a $10 Billion Market
January 29, 2019 Press ReleasesNearly nine in ten large law firms using ALSPs, Big Four competition rising, according to comprehensive study by Thomson Reuters, Georgetown Law, Oxford Saïd Business School & Acritas
“My Country Is Not My Limit”: Center for Transnational Legal Studies is Shaping Lives, Careers
January 28, 2019 Faculty Human Rights & Immigration International & Comparative Law Our AlumniDiana Khleif (LL.M.’14) was studying law at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem when she joined the Center for Transnational Legal Studies (CTLS) in London in Spring 2013. CTLS was created by Georgetown Law and nine partner law schools around the globe to provide students and faculty with an international, comparative and transnational law experience unlike any other.
Friday: Who Should Tax International Income?
January 28, 2019 Press ReleasesDeputy Assistant Secretary of Treasury Chip Harter to Keynote one-day conference at Georgetown Law
Mikie Sherrill (L’07) Returns to Washington — as a Member of Congress
January 24, 2019 Congress Our AlumniMikie Sherrill (L’07) has had an exciting life so far: Naval Academy graduate, helicopter pilot in Europe and the Middle East, Russian policy officer, student of Arabic in Cairo, London School of Economics graduate, and assistant U.S. attorney. And as of first week in January, she’s added one more accomplishment: U.S. Representative from the 11th District of New Jersey.
Georgetown Law Students, Faculty, Alumni Assist Migrants Seeking Asylum in U.S.
January 23, 2019 Clinics Human Rights & ImmigrationThe South Texas Family Residential Center in remote Dilley, Texas, is hard to find and hard to get to. Located 80 miles southwest of San Antonio, it is the largest family detention center in the United States, with capacity for 2,400 women and children awaiting the possibility of an asylum hearing.
“Federal Money” Class Has Government Shutdown on the Syllabus
January 22, 2019 CongressNathan Williams (L’20) was planning to do an externship for course credit at the Department of Justice’s Commercial Litigation Division during the Spring 2019 semester.
Government externships have worked out well for Williams in the past. As a business major at the University of Georgia in 2013, he worked on the Hill and lived on Massachusetts Avenue, walking by Georgetown Law every day. That inspired him to add political science to his coursework and to apply to Georgetown Law after getting a master’s from the London School of Economics.
Professor Paul Butler Premieres Video: “Ten Commandments for Black Men”
January 18, 2019 Civil Rights & Antidiscrimination Criminal Law Race & LawAlmost half of all African American men have been arrested by age 23. One in three have a felony conviction. More than 500,000 are currently incarcerated. Professor Paul Butler knows this, because as a former federal prosecutor, it was his job to lock up black men. But Butler, a black man, is well aware that his own resume (which also includes Georgetown Law professor and a J.D. from Harvard) hasn’t insulated him from police bias.
Tiauna Mathieu (L’19): Working Towards Criminal Justice
January 16, 2019 Clinics Criminal Law Impacting ChangeTiauna Mathieu (L’19) was inspired to become a lawyer, she says, in a sixth grade law and government class where half of the class served as the prosecution and half served as the defense.