After 15 years at the helm, William M. Treanor stepped down as Dean of Georgetown Law, Executive Vice President and the Paul Regis Dean Leadership Chair.
Some 670 new J.D. students and 400 LL.M. and graduate students began their Georgetown Law journeys last week. Orientation, which began August 18, offered welcome activities, classroom introductions, social gatherings and excursions that brought campus back to life after the quiet days of summer.
As summer draws to a close, our colleagues “across the pond” at the Center for Transnational Legal Studies (CTLS) in London, England are looking back on a year full of innovative teaching, transformative exchanges and scholarly debates on pressing…
On July 1, Professor Joshua C. Teitelbaum became the Interim Dean of Georgetown Law, taking over the reins – for the next year or so – at the nation’s largest law school. Teitelbaum, who holds a Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University as well…
For Professor Eloise Pasachoff, legal scholarship isn’t just a means of understanding executive spending power and appropriations law — it’s a way to improve the processes at the core of government.
Growing up in Atlanta, Sophia Ceniza, L’25, was fascinated by the city’s pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement and its artistic and cultural heritage — an interest she carried with her as a law student hoping to explore the intersection of legal advocacy and artistic expression.
DC Affordable Law Firm (DCALF), an innovative nonprofit law firm operated in partnership with Georgetown Law and the University of the District of Columbia, celebrated its 10th anniversary last month. Dean Emeritus William M. Treanor, who helped launch…
Two incoming 1Ls, Simon Hernandez, L’28, and Cornelia Dixon, L’28, have been named to the 2025 class of Tillman Scholars. They are among the 42 awardees selected this year from a pool of more than 1,700 applicants to the prestigious fellowship for armed forces members, veterans and military spouses.
Top legal advocates, scholars and journalists convened at Georgetown Law July 2 to analyze some of the most consequential and controversial decisions of the Supreme Court’s 2024-25 term, from immigrant deportations to nationwide injunctions to transgender rights.
The fifth Georgetown Law graduate in nine years has secured a Supreme Court clerkship. Kate Hardiman Rhodes, L’22, will clerk for Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett during the October 2025 term. A graduate of Georgetown Law’s evening program, Rhodes worked at a D.C. litigation firm while pursuing her law degree. She is the fourth evening student to clerk for the Supreme Court since 2016.
After 15 years at the helm, William M. Treanor stepped down today as Dean of Georgetown Law, Executive Vice President and the Paul Regis Dean Leadership Chair. He is succeeded by Joshua C. Teitelbaum, David Belding Professor of Law, who will serve as…