Sotomayor joined members of the Georgetown Law community for a wide-ranging conversation with Dean Treanor about pressing issues facing the judiciary today,
What is the status of international criminal justice today? How might current U.S. leadership impact human rights? The 2017 Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights, “Global Criminal Justice: Accomplishments, Challenges, and Future Directions” at Georgetown Law on April 3 examined the most critical questions.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – How will Brexit impact everything from travel and trade to human rights, climate change and the fate of Scotch whisky? Legal Aspects of Brexit, a new book published today by Georgetown Law’s Institute of International Economic…
Professor David C. Vladeck (LL.M.’77) has been installed as the A.B. Chettle, Jr., Chair in Civil Procedure at Georgetown Law. The chair, which supports professors working to further the study and practice of legal process, was held by Professor Emerita…
Claire Chevrier (L’17) was sitting in Professor David Vladeck’s Federal Courts class on March 22 when Anna Deffebach (L’17) texted her with the news: the Supreme Court held in Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District that public schools must provide children with disabilities an educational program that is “appropriately ambitious” in light of the child’s circumstances.
The 30th anniversary game of Home Court will not be forgotten in Georgetown Law history. Not because of the winning team (the "Hoya Lawyas"), the humble score (34 to 31) or even the game — although the Lawyas pulled ahead in an exciting fourth quarter…
Eight Georgetown professors and one from New York University School of Law displayed their expertise in healthcare and tax law at “‘Repeal and Replace’ the Affordable Care Act: Understanding the House GOP Healthcare Reform Bill.” The March 21…
Georgetown Law's National Security Crisis Law simulation — the equivalent of a final exam for students in Professor Laura Donohue and Alan Cohn's National Security Crisis Law Class — went international in Spring 2017. For the first time, Canadian…
On Monday, March 6, Georgetown Law students got the opportunity to witness the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in action — on Law Center turf. A three-judge panel sitting in the Supreme Court Institute’s Moot Courtroom heard four cases…
What does it mean to be a great lawyer working in house? Ask Benjamin W. Heineman, former general counsel at General Electric, who kicked off Georgetown Law’s 2017 Corporate Counsel Institute (CCI) with a look at the “inside counsel revolution”…
Georgetown Law Professor Chris Brummer and Professor Gregory Klass have been named the 2017 Williams Research Professors. The Williams Professorships, established through the generosity of Agnes N. Williams (L’54), recognize and support the scholarly…
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