As 2025 draws to a close, we’re looking back at the past year at Georgetown Law, from headline-grabbing guest speakers and alumni achievements to the work of students and faculty in clinics, courts and beyond.
“All of us know, at the end of the day…it is the rule of law that stands between us and the exercise of arbitrary power in the United States of America,” said Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.)(L’90) to the lawyers gathered for Georgetown Law’s Washington…
When Devontae Sanford was just 14 years old, he was arrested for murdering four drug dealers in Detroit, just around the corner from his home. He confessed to the crime, entered a plea on the advice of his former lawyer and served nearly nine years in…
Georgetown Law’s Institute for Technology Law & Policy today announced the appointment of Gigi Sohn as a Distinguished Fellow.
Georgetown Law students Kyle Crawford (L’17) and Anna Deffebach (L’17) finished ahead of teams from 15 other law schools at the annual Andrews Kurth Kenyon Moot Court National Championship, hosted by the University of Houston Law Center earlier this…
Zachary Mason (L’16) has won a 2017 Distinguished Legal Writing Award, part of the Burton Awards for Legal Achievement, for his note, "Online Loans Across State Lines: Protecting Peer-to-Peer Lending Through the Exportation Doctrine." Mason, who wrote…
On May 4, Georgetown Law hosted “Rule of Law Approaches to Countering Violent Extremism,” a conference of the American Bar Association’s Rule of Law Initiative (ROLI). And with expertise in so many relevant areas — national security, criminal justice, international law — members of the Law Center community contributed far more than the venue.
Shon Hopwood, a second-year fellow in Georgetown Law’s Appellate Litigation Clinic, is joining the Georgetown Law faculty as an associate professor. Hopwood’s astounding personal journey that brought him to the law has been recounted in media outlets…
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At the end-of-term reception on April 27, Georgetown Law’s Supreme Court Institute honored Jeffrey P. Minear, the Counselor to the Chief Justice of the United States — along with everyone who participated in the Institute’s moot courts this year. So it was fitting that the Chief Justice himself would come to the Law Center to offer words of praise about his colleague.
At a time when funding for the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) has come under attack, the organization needed a new forum in which to hold a meeting. So they came to Georgetown Law — whose dean, William M. Treanor, not only signed the March 23 letter…