15th Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference
September 28, 2018 Press ReleasesWASHINGTON – USCIS Director L. Francis Cissna to deliver keynote Monday, Oct. 1 at the 15th Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference at Georgetown Law.
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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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Saving the Planet, One Frog at a Time
September 28, 2018 Clinics Environmental Law FacultyIn an aggressive deregulatory era for environmental protection, and with an unprecedented sense of urgency, environmental law scholars at Georgetown Law prepare the next generation of attorneys.
Opposing Sides to Discuss High-Stakes Environmental Case After SCOTUS Argument
September 25, 2018 Press ReleasesWASHINGTON – Attorneys representing both sides of Weyerhaeuser Co. v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will discuss the Supreme Court’s first case of the term at Georgetown Law after oral arguments on Monday, October 1.
Financial Crises and Court Appointments: Have We Learned Nothing? A Conversation with Professor Emma Coleman Jordan
September 24, 2018 Business & Financial Regulation Faculty Feminism & Gender StudiesThey say the more things change, the more they stay the same. Whether that’s the case concerning the national economy will be the topic of a day-long conference at Georgetown Law on Friday, September 28. “Ten Years After the Financial Crisis: Closing Loopholes and Avoiding Blindspots,” with a keynote by Sheila Bair, former chair of the FDIC, will attempt to answer the question of whether the economy is headed for another fall.
Justice Ginsburg to Deliver Lecture to New Georgetown Law Students
September 24, 2018 Press ReleasesWASHINGTON – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will deliver a lecture to Georgetown Law’s first-year class on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018.
Does More Intellectual Property Help or Hurt Global Health, Creativity, and Development?
September 23, 2018WASHINGTON (Sept. 24, 2018) -- Today’s global intellectual property regime—a tangle of interlocking national, regional and global agreements—treats expanding exclusive ownership of technologies and literary and artistic works as vital to advancing creativity, economic development and medicines for today’s health needs. But does this system help or hurt global health, creativity and development?
Sept. 28 Conference to Explore New Risks "10 Years After the Financial Crisis"
September 20, 2018 Press ReleasesWASHINGTON – On Friday, Sept. 28, 2018, Georgetown Law will host a one-day conference on “Ten Years After the Financial Crisis: Closing Loopholes, Avoiding Blindspots and Finding Economic Justice.”
Supreme Court Institute Press Preview: A Look Ahead
September 18, 2018 Civil Rights & Antidiscrimination Constitutional Law & Theory Feminism & Gender Studies“Last term was a term of blockbusters, most of which fizzled out,” said Professor Irv Gornstein, as he introduced Georgetown Law’s annual Supreme Court Institute press preview on September 17. “This term, by contrast, doesn’t have any blockbusters to begin with — but I think a more accurate caption for this term is the calm before the storm. We’re headed for a whole new world, and the only real question, I think, is how far we are going to go and how fast we are going to get there.”
50 Former Justice Dept. Leaders, Prosecutors and Judges Join ICAP Brief Urging Resentencing For Juvenile Offender
September 14, 2018 Juveniles Press ReleasesWASHINGTON – In an amicus brief filed today, former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, former acting U.S. Attorney General Peter Keisler, and former Deputy Attorneys General David Ogden and Gary Grindler joined a bipartisan group of 50 signatories…
From Dean Emeritus Robert Pitofsky to Joseph Simons (L’83), Georgetown Law Celebrates Tradition with Federal Trade Commission Hearings
September 14, 2018 Business & Financial Regulation Our AlumniWhen Joseph Simons (L’83) graduated cum laude from Georgetown Law in 1983, times were tough for antitrust lawyers.