M. Elizabeth Magill, the former dean of Stanford Law School, provost of the University of Virginia and president of the University of Pennsylvania, has been named the executive vice president and dean of Georgetown Law.
When Raquel Braun (L’10) was choosing law schools more than a decade ago, she had to decide between Georgetown Law and a school that was advertising her chief interest, sports law. She opted to go to Georgetown and build what she wanted. At the time…
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When Georgetown Law Professor Neal Katyal was preparing to argue Hamdan v. Rumsfeld before the Supreme Court more than a decade ago, he knew that Paul Clement — then the 43rd solicitor general of the United States — would be arguing on the other side…
On a day when newly inaugurated President Trump began his efforts to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, two events at Georgetown Law examined the future of international law.
Readers of Abbe Smith’s book Case of a Lifetime: A Criminal Defense Lawyer’s Story (Palgrave MacMillan, 2008) know the story of this Georgetown Law professor’s career-long defense of a woman imprisoned for more than 28 years. Smith first met Patsy…
As Washington, D.C., and the country prepares for a new administration, a panel of professors and other experts weighed in on what a Republican president and Congress could mean for the Affordable Care Act, Supreme Court nominees, financial regulation, filibusters and more.
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…
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