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Georgetown Law Professor Paul Butler Publishes New Book Chokehold: Policing Black Men
Posted on July 12, 2017
Paul Butler, the Albert Brick Professor at Georgetown Law, is in the spotlight with a book published by The New Press on July 11. We sat down with Butler, a former federal prosecutor with scholarly expertise in...
Color of Surveillance: Government Monitoring of American Immigrants Combines Lessons of History, Technology of Today
Posted on June 26, 2017
Laura Moy — deputy director of Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy & Technology — began a landmark conference at Georgetown Law on U.S. government surveillance of immigrants by reading from the Ninth Circuit’s recent decision striking...
Institute of International Economic Law Co-Hosts Annual G2 Conference on WTO Law in Geneva
Posted on June 14, 2017
Geneva has long drawn diplomats, corporate titans and those interested in the intersection of international economic law and policy. On June 9 and 10, Georgetown Law’s Institute of International Economic Law (IIEL) and the Graduate Institute,...
Georgetown Law Celebrates Commencement 2017
Posted on May 22, 2017
Georgetown Law welcomed more than one thousand new alumni — 637 J.D.s, 538 LL.M.s and one S.J.D. — on Sunday, May 21, as graduates and their families, faculty, staff and administrators gathered on Georgetown University’s Healy...
Juvenile Justice Initiative Hosts “The Right to Remain Children: Race and Juvenile Justice 50 Years After Gault”
Posted on May 18, 2017
When Devontae Sanford was just 14 years old, he was arrested for murdering four drug dealers in Detroit, just around the corner from his home. He confessed to the crime, entered a plea on the advice...
Senator Chris Van Hollen (D.-Md.)(L’90) Speaks at Luncheon for Washington, D.C., Alumni
Posted on May 18, 2017
“All of us know, at the end of the day…it is the rule of law that stands between us and the exercise of arbitrary power in the United States of America,” said Sen. Chris Van Hollen...