Sotomayor joined members of the Georgetown Law community for a wide-ranging conversation with Dean Treanor about pressing issues facing the judiciary today,
The U.K.’s June 23 decision to withdraw from the European Union — commonly known as “Brexit” — was one of the top stories of 2016, in part due to the “sheer unexpectedness of it all,” according to Georgetown Law Professor Chris Brummer.…
Investigation by the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law raises serious questions about privacy and civil liberties violations, particularly for African Americans Senator Al Franken (D.-Minn.), Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R.-Utah), the American…
In the words of Georgetown Law Professor Neal Katyal — the former acting U.S. solicitor general — it often takes an immigrant to teach us about America. That was true on October 6, when the Law Center community welcomed Pakistani-American lawyer Khizr…
In 1983, Evan Wolfson — who would later become the founder and president of Freedom to Marry — published a paper as a student at Harvard Law entitled “Samesex Marriage and Morality: The Human Rights Vision of the Constitution.” Wolfson’s paper…
Gifts to Georgetown University Law Center totaling more than $10 million were received from Sara Crown Star (L’85), Linda (NHS’77) and Tim (L’77) O’Neill and Tom Reynolds (B’74). The gifts came in the final year of Georgetown University’s…
In fall 2016, Georgetown Law will launch the Delaney Post-Graduate Residency Program, a training and mentoring program for graduates participating in fellowships in the public sector. The new program, made possible due to a generous gift from alumni…
The role of the Federal Trade Commission, according to FTC Chair Edith Ramirez, is not unlike that of a lifeguard on duty at the beach.
Unlike previous years, the annual Supreme Court Institute press briefing on Monday, September 19, featured no talk of swing votes, 5-4 predictions or blockbusters like health care or marriage equality. Though the talk was animated and the cases interesting…
Most law students — or practicing lawyers for that matter — would consider themselves lucky to encounter a Supreme Court justice during the course of their careers. For several hundred incoming Georgetown Law students, this happened on their sixth…
As the numbers of Zika cases reach more than 2500 in the U.S. states and 14,000 in U.S. territories — and federal funds to fight the virus nearly depleted — Dr. Anthony Fauci (H’90), director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases…
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