Greg Langlois

A brand-name hotel and luxury apartment building towering over an empty lot in Northwest Washington, D.C., are stark reminders of what Professor Anthony Cook’s unique mixed-income “intentional community” concept is up against.

It was the latest roll call for 18 Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department officers and civilian personnel participating in a pioneering Georgetown Law-MPD joint fellowship program — and the first for 26 more set to walk the new beat.

It was the most-cited international intellectual property article in a decade and the twentieth-most cited IP article overall during the same span. Professor Madhavi Sunder’s “IP3 ,” which appeared in the Stanford Law Review in 2006, encapsulated an approach to IP law that at the time got labeled “dangerous” at a conference she attended celebrating luminary IP scholars.

More than 90 refugee and migration judges from approximately 30 countries gathered at Georgetown Law in August, and with crushing caseloads and lives often in the balance, the issues were critical.

Members of the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges (IARMJ) spent five days in McDonough Hall focusing on resilience — both in legal systems handing large influxes of asylum seekers and with the judges individually, managing cases involving traumatized, vulnerable populations.

With varied research pursuits in the constantly transforming world of technology, Professor Anupam Chander thrives on conquering the unfamiliar.

“I’ll throw myself at a new project without knowing the landscape at all,” Chander says. “As a generalist lawyer, I feel like I can handle any domain.”

The allure of studying law in the nation's capital draws many students to Georgetown Law. A new academic program aims to remind them that opportunities to make a difference extend far beyond Washington, D.C.

Georgetown Law has launched the Program on State and Local Policy and Law (“SALPAL”) to serve as both a think tank and as a means for students to explore and pursue careers in state and local government.

At 20 years old, a landmark child online privacy law is well past the age of the kids it was designed to protect.

Georgetown Law’s Institute for Technology Law & Policy gathered distinguished experts from government, the tech industry, and advocacy groups October 24 to examine how a law enacted in the age of dial-up is faring today.

Opening her lecture on “Race, Community and Belonging: A Blueprint for the 21st Century” at Georgetown Law last month, Fordham Law Professor Robin Lenhardt recalled the words of her great great grandfather — a gravedigger in tiny Des Arc, Arkansas — as relayed by her grandmother.

“Who will build my grave?” he would ask himself, as he wandered around town.

Two former Georgetown Law clinic students, now graduates, have helped an African women’s rights advocacy group to mount a successful legal challenge to a discriminatory marital law regime in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland).

Days after a video of police pepper spraying and handcuffing a 9-year-old Black girl went viral, Blume Professor of Law Kristin Henning posed a fundamental question.

“How do we cultivate a society in which we treat all kids like kids?”

In a fitting way to honor and carry on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life work, 10 juvenile defenders from across the country recently gathered at Georgetown Law over a chilly MLK holiday weekend.

Together, the geographically and racially diverse group marked the start of their yearlong service as “Ambassadors for Racial Justice.”

Generic and biosimilar drug makers such as Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. and Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd. will continue challenging name-brand drug products both in court and administrative proceedings for the foreseeable future as congressional efforts to eliminate this dual-track option falter.