Imagine earning your Juris Doctor (J.D.) a short walk from the U.S. Capitol, Supreme Court and the countless global firms, think tanks and NGOs that call Washington home. At Georgetown Law, your study of the law will include seeing it in action at the nation’s highest levels.
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The Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law conducts research and advocacy at the intersection of privacy and civil rights.
Georgetown Law Dean William M. Treanor Is Honored With the Paul Regis Dean Leadership Chair Associate Dean James Feinerman, Chief Judge Robert A. Katzmann, Georgetown Law Dean William M. Treanor, Associate Dean Kristin Henning, and Associate Dean John Mikhail on October 16, just before Treanor was honored with the Paul Regis Dean Leadership Chair.
Today, the Law Center boasts the nation's top-ranked clinical program, joint degree and advanced degree programs, world-renowned centers and institutes, an Office of Public Interest and Community Service, and a diverse curriculum rivaling that of any major law school.
Georgetown is also ranked in the top 10 law schools for business and corporate law; international, criminal, environmental, health care, and tax law; as well as first in clinical training and part-time legal studies.
Georgetown University Law Center is one of the top law schools in the nation and the most prestigious law school in Washington, D.C. It's that location that helps the school pull one of the largest applicant pools in the nation.
Shon Hopwood is an Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, where he is an expert on federal courts, criminal procedure (including federal sentencing), and prisoners' rights.
Georgetown University Law Center had long been at the bottom of the law school world's elite "Top-14" rankings.
The acceptance rate for Georgetown has hovered around 20% to 24% over the last few years, making it one of the few institutions with a relatively high acceptance rate compared to other top law schools, such as Yale (9.7%) and Harvard (13%).
To have great chances at Georgetown University Law Center, you will want an LSAT score around the 167+ range and an undergraduate GPA in the 3.7+ range.
Admissions StatisticsAdmissions Statistics20202017LSAT Score (Median)167165LSAT Score (25th-75th percentile)163-168161-168GPA (Median)3.803.66GPA Range (25th-75th percentile)3.56-3.903.47-3.851 more row
There are about 650 students in every entering class at Georgetown law school, making it by far the largest of any U.S. law school (Harvard comes in second with 550 per year). Size is not a bad thing in and of itself, but if you are shy you can get lost easily.
four moreHis friend suggested sending the money back, with a note. Instead, Hopwood went on to rob four more banks. At his sentencing, 30 family members stood behind him, most of them crying. He was 23 years old.
Cain Vincent Dyer robbed over 100 banks between 1999 and 2001. Dyer was never caught by law enforcement but handed himself in. Dyer now works as a motivational speaker, helping newly released prisoners reintegrate into society.
I’m following up with instructions on campus access for faculty who have not yet been approved to be on campus regularly. The University has created a protocol using a visitor management system called Traction Guest.
The Dean’s Office is working to put a system into place to allow limited, regular access to those faculty members who wish it. In the first phase, access would be provided only for teaching or research in an office or classroom. In later phases, we hope to add access to meet outdoors with small groups of students and perhaps for other purposes.
As Greg noted in his message to you on Monday, campus building access will be restricted starting Monday, August 17. At that time GOCard building access will be deactivated for everyone unless they are approved to be on campus. For this initial phase, only staff members designated as essential to operations are approved to be on campus.
The Legal Regulation of Knowledge and Practice. A number of the interdisciplinary offerings at Georgetown aim to elucidate the ways in which law affects, shapes and perhaps even define s the promulgation of knowledge and practice in some other discipline or profession.
Law is no longer a discrete or autonomous body of knowledge, if ever it was, and the practice of law can no longer be neatly separated from the practice of other disciplines. Law affects and is affected by other disciplines and other professions in at least three ways. First, some other area of knowledge and the disciplines and practices which concern it may at times be the subject of legal control and regulation: for example, legal regulation significantly affects the promulgation of knowledge and expertise in the liberal arts, through constraints on a university's system of promotion and tenure. Second, the expertise provided by another organized body of knowledge may at times be necessary to the resolution of a particular legal issue. The "expert testimony" of a mental health professional, for example, is often central to a judgment of culpability or non-culpability in a criminal law proceeding. And third, law may be the subject matter of another discipline. Thus, the study of law might be sensibly regarded as not only preparation for a profession, but also as a branch of the humanities or the social sciences. If so, then literature, philosophy, cultural studies, economics, history, or sociology might all provide insights into the nature of law.
Law and Humanities offerings all aim to place law in the context of our cultural history. There are also several specialized seminars that look to literature and other art forms for insight into the role of law in history and in contemporary life, and also look to literary and cultural theories for a greater understanding of the humanistic processes by which we write, read and interpret legal texts. Other offerings seek an enriched appreciation of the idea of law in western culture by examining arguments about law and legalism propounded by major political and moral philosophers. Additional Law and Humanities offerings are described under the Jurisprudence and Legal History heading of this publication.
Thus, the study of law might be sensibly regarded as not only preparation for a profession, but also as a branch of the humanities or the social sciences. If so, then literature, philosophy, cultural studies, economics, history, or sociology might all provide insights into the nature of law.
Imagine earning your Juris Doctor (J.D.) a short walk from the U.S. Capitol, Supreme Court and the countless global firms, think tanks and NGOs that call Washington home. At Georgetown Law, your study of the law will include seeing it in action at the nation’s highest levels. Our J.D.
Our campus is a bustling hub of legal debate and scholarship, where on any given day you may find world leaders and the nation’s top legal authorities giving talks and exchanging views at timely conferences and events.
The full-time program is six semesters (three academic years). After setting aside credits for the required courses, you will have a large number of elective credits to build your portfolio.
The evening program is designed to allow students the flexibility to complete a J.D. in four, three-and-a-half, or three academic years.
Students may combine their J.D. with an LL.M.; a degree in business, public health, public policy, government, philosophy; or one of many offered by the School of Foreign Service.