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.
With more than 2,500 students, faculty and staff working across a campus that spans three city blocks, the Georgetown Law community is vibrant and vast, offering abundant opportunities for learning and hands-on experience in the nation’s capital.
Georgetown Law professor David Cole, the Honorable George J. Mitchell Professor in Law and Public Policy, will be the featured speaker at the Law Center’s 2026 commencement ceremony on May 17.
On April 21, Georgetown Law honored four faculty members for their excellence in teaching and service to the Law Center community at the 2026 Faculty Scholarship and Teaching Awards Luncheon.
Today, Georgetown University announced the individuals who will speak at its 2026 commencement exercises and receive honorary degrees. The speaker for the Georgetown Law commencement ceremony on May 17 is Morton Schapiro, who served as president of Northwestern…
Four Georgetown Law professors, Stephen Vladeck, Michele Goodwin, Allegra McLeod and Anita Krishnakumar, are among the 100 most-cited scholars in legal academia, according to a ranking compiled by law librarians at George Mason University. [caption…
With an eye toward identifying the advocates and strategies that will guide the next generation of climate justice work, on March 31, Georgetown Law’s Human Rights Institute (HRI) convened “Futures at Stake: Climate Change, Human Rights, and Youth Advocacy,” the 2026 Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights.
The winner of the most recent season of “Big Brother,” the president and CEO of an artificial intelligence (AI) governance and literacy nonprofit and the chief of staff to a U.S. congresswoman were among the alumni who represented Georgetown Law at the 2026 Georgetown University Women’s Forum March 19-21.
For the students who took part in this year’s National Security Crisis Law: Edge Technologies Simulation (“Sim”), time was of the essence. A foreign actor had attacked a U.S. satellite fleet — with potentially dire consequences. Gathered for a National Security Council meeting, the group had to weigh options such as diplomatic protest, trade sanctions and cyberattacks in deciding how to respond.
On February 28, more than 180 Georgetown Law alumni, faculty, staff and guests gathered on campus for “OPICS30,” a celebration of the 30th anniversary of the founding of the school’s Office of Public Interest and Community Service (OPICS).
Leading constitutional and educational law scholar Justin Driver, the Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law at Yale Law School, joined the Georgetown Law community on Feb. 25 to deliver the 2026 Thomas F. Ryan Lecture, “The Fall of Affirmative Action.”