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.
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…
“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…
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