Sotomayor joined members of the Georgetown Law community for a wide-ranging conversation with Dean Treanor about pressing issues facing the judiciary today,
Dr. Houssam al-Nahhas hoped to become a cardiac surgeon. Instead, he was tortured and detained for providing medical care during the Syrian uprising — and was forced to sign a pledge promising not to treat patients with alleged anti-government ties upon his release. "I just could not imagine how providing health care can be a crime, until I experienced it firsthand," he said of the experience, which motivated him to devote his career to documenting similar attacks on health care providers.
The 37th annual Home Court charity basketball game, held March 28 at the Gonzaga College High School gym, was a fast-paced match between students, faculty and staff from Georgetown Law (the Hoya Lawyas) and from the George Washington University Law School…
On March 4, Georgetown Law's Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP), Law Forward and Stafford Rosenbaum LLP announced a historic settlement in first-of-its-kind litigation against participants in a fraudulent electors scheme intended to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
For most law students, a chance to see a Supreme Court argument live and in person is thrilling. But the chance to see two professors from your own school argue opposing sides of a case is an even rarer treat.
Georgetown Law faculty are no strangers to the U.S. Supreme Court. In any given year, you can find our professors as authors of briefs, as amici and as oral advocates. But it’s never happened that the advocates on both sides of a case were both Georgetown Law faculty members… until now.
WASHINGTON - The Georgetown Center for the Constitution is pleased to announce that Jack M. Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School, has been awarded the Thomas M. Cooley Book Prize of $50,000 for his…
A finalist from the TV show “Survivor,” a family caregiving attorney, an award-winning documentarian and a divorce financial analyst represented Georgetown Law at the Georgetown University Women’s Forum on Feb. 23, which brought together some 325 guests and speakers to celebrate women graduates and strengthen the alumnae community.
United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai and U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) joined legal experts, policymakers and business and non-profit leaders at Georgetown Law for "Remaking Global Trade for a Sustainable Future," a Feb. 8 conference organized by the Center on Inclusive Trade and Development (CITD), which develops inclusive, sustainable solutions to international trade issues through collaboration among students, scholars and advocates.
