More than 1,600 alumni and guests gathered for reunion weekend, with members of class years ending in 0 and 5 celebrating at more than 30 events hosted on campus and at nearby sites in the nation’s capital.
The billable hour model of decades past where law firms experienced little pushback on rates or number of hours spent is effectively dead, and the traditional law firm franchise is increasingly at risk after a decade of stagnant demand for law firm services…
Two graduates of Georgetown Law’s Evening Program, Betsy Henthorne (L’14) and Tiffany Wright (L’13), are clerking on the Supreme Court during the October 2016 Term. Henthorne is a clerk for Justice Elena Kagan; Wright is a clerk for Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
The Georgetown Law Student Bar Association (SBA) received the 2016 Student Bar Association Award from the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Law Student Division this past year. Law schools from around the nation compete for the award, which recognizes…
As Michelle K. Lee — undersecretary of commerce for intellectual property and director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) — tells the story, when President Barack Obama moved into the Oval Office in 2009, he chose to display three patent…
“Technology is transforming the legal profession in every way…” said Georgetown Law Dean William M. Treanor, speaking at a recent event celebrating the launch of the new Institute for Technology Law & Policy and the first issue of the Georgetown…
Georgetown Law Professor Laura K. Donohue has won the Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize for her book The Future of Foreign Intelligence: Privacy and Surveillance in the Digital Age (Oxford University Press, 2016)…
Elisabeth Resch (LL.M.’17), who hails from Austria, and Bianca McDonnell (LL.M.’17), who hails from Australia, discovered upon meeting at Georgetown Law that they were both in the International Legal Studies program, and that they had both worked…
The Office of the Comptroller (OCC) will move forward with plans to make special-purpose national charters available to financial technology companies offering bank products and services, Comptroller of the Currency Thomas J. Curry announced at the Law…
Want a personal glimpse into the life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg? Ask Adjunct Professor Mary Hartnett, one of the justice’s authorized biographers. Looking to explore health law in 2016-2017? Ask Professor Larry Gostin, who recently…
The Georgetown Law Technology Review, a student-run, online journal affiliated with Georgetown Law’s new Institute for Technology Law & Policy released its inaugural issue today. Focusing on issues at the intersection of law, policy and technology…
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