M. Elizabeth Magill, the new dean of Georgetown Law, discusses her path to becoming a lawyer and a professor, her approach to leadership and what she loves about living in Washington, D.C.
Interested in honeymooning in space or buying a plot of land on the moon? Thinking about mining an asteroid or taking a one-way trip to Mars? If so, you might want to speak first to Adjunct Professor Steve Mirmina (LL.M.'06), who teaches a popular seminar…
At a forum on February 1, Georgetown Law Professor Marty Lederman, Professor from Practice Andrew I. Schoenholtz and Professor Philip G. Schrag helped explain to the Law Center community the recent executive orders on immigrants and refugees that are…
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.
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