Sotomayor joined members of the Georgetown Law community for a wide-ranging conversation with Dean Treanor about pressing issues facing the judiciary today,
Former Deputy Attorney General and Georgetown Law Distinguished Lecturer Sally Q. Yates and other leading voices from across the political spectrum will discuss “Democracy in the Balance: The Essential Role of Democratic Institutions and Norms” at…
As a student in Georgetown Law’s Street Law Clinic, Natasha Walls Smith’s (L’19) role was to teach D.C. high school students about constitutional policing, focusing on probable cause and reasonable suspicion. She taught the unit at Eastern High School, and then at Roosevelt High School, changing mid-semester.
Administrations of both parties have traditionally kept the Department of Justice at arm’s length, allowing investigations and prosecutions to run their course without political interference.
The Georgetown Environmental Law Review launched in the 1980s through the efforts of three founding students, all women: Bernadette Brennan (L’89), Sara Schreiner (L’85) and Cynthia Jirgensons (L’89).
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee; Tom Davis, the former Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee; noted scholars; and experts who have served in the FBI, Department of Justice and White House…
Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-CA) and a panel of experts will discuss strategies to promote environmental justice at a time of receding federal enforcement at Georgetown Law on Monday. Rep. Ruiz will offer keynote remarks and discuss the pending bill he coauthored…
At the 31st Annual Home Court Charity Basketball Game, members of Congress (Hill’s Angels) and Georgetown Law faculty and staff (Hoya Lawyas) will hit the basketball court to to raise money for the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless. Started by…
In 1776, as British forces were landing in New York during the Revolutionary War, Harvard University moved classes to Concord, Massachusetts, and Yale moved to Hartford County.
On Friday, April 6, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg visited Georgetown Law to celebrate a new lecture series named in her honor.
Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, former Deputy Attorneys General David Ogden, James Cole, Jamie Gorelick, Gary Grindler, and Donald Ayer, and former Acting Attorney General Peter Keisler join amicus brief representing broad consensus view that prosecutors have special obligation to disclose potentially material exculpatory and impeaching information.