GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER

'Georgetown University Law Center' ('GULC'), sometimes 'Georgetown Law', is Georgetown University's law school. Princeton Review ranks it in the top ten for "Best Career Prospects" and "Best Overall Academic Experience." Law School 100, a ranking scheme that purports to use qualitative criteria instead of quantitative, ranks the law school seventh overall, tied with Cornell, University of Virginia and others. The school is a member of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). Its current dean is T. Alexander Aleinikoff. According to the 2008 edition of U.S. News and World Report, GULC is the #14 ranked law school in the nation overall, and is #1 in clinical programs, #3 in international law (tied with Harvard), and #3 in tax law. The law school often emphasizes that its location in close proximity to federal government agencies, courts, and the Supreme Court offer a significant advantage in the study of law.

Contents

History

Campus

Libraries

Curriculum

JD, JSD, LLM programs

Faculty

Publications

Notable alumni

Also attended

Notes

External links

History

Opened as Georgetown Law School in 1870, it was the first law school run by a Jesuit institution within the U.S. GULC has been separate from the main Georgetown campus (in the neighborhood of Georgetown) since 1890, when it moved near what is now Chinatown. The GULC campus is located on New Jersey Avenue, several blocks north of the Capitol, and a few blocks due west of Union Station.

Campus

The law campus is located in the Capitol Hill area of Washington, D.C. It is bounded by 1st St. NW to the west, E St. NW to the south, and New Jersey Avenue to the northeast, forming a triangle.
The campus consists of five buildings. Bernard P. McDonough Hall (1971, expanded in 1997), houses classrooms and Law Center offices and was designed by Edward Durrell Stone. The Edward Bennett Williams Law Library building (1989) houses most of the school's library collection. The Eric E. Hotung International Law Center (2004) includes two floors of library space housing the international collection, and also contains classrooms, offices, and meeting rooms. The Bernard S. and Sarah M. Gewirz Student Center (1993), provides housing mostly for first year law students. A four-level Sport and Fitness Center (2004) includes a pool, fitness facilities, and cafe, and connects the Hotung Building to the Gewirz Student Center.

Libraries

The Georgetown University Law Library supports the research and educational endeavors of the students and faculty of the Georgetown University Law Center. As one of the premier research facilities for the study of law, the Law Library houses the nation's fourth largest law library collection and offers accesses to thousands of online publications.
The mission of the library is to support fully the research and educational endeavors of the students and faculty of the Georgetown University Law Center, by collecting, organizing, preserving, and disseminating legal and law related information in any form, by providing effective service and instructional programs, and by utilizing electronic information systems to provide access to new information products and services.
The collection is split into two buildings. The Edward Bennett Williams Law Library (1989) is named after Washington, DC lawyer Edward Bennett Williams, an alumnus of the Law Center. It houses the Law Center's United States law collection, the Law Center Archives, and the National Equal Justice Library. The Williams library building consists of five floors of collection and study space and provides office space for most of the Law Center's law journals on the Law Library's first level.
The John Wolff International and Comparative Law Library (2004) is named after John Wolff, a long-serving member of the adjunct faculty and supporter of the Law Center's international law programs. The library is located on two floors inside the Eric E. Hotung building. It houses the international, foreign, and comparative law collections of the Georgetown University Law Center. Wolff Library collects primary and secondary law materials from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, Scotland, and South Africa. English translations of primary and secondary legal materials from other jurisdictions and compilations of foreign law on special topics are also included.
In addition to foreign law, the Wolff Library maintains an extensive collection of public and private international law, focusing on international trade, international environmental law, human rights, arbitration, tax and treaty law. The collection also includes documentation from many international organizations, including the International Court of Justice, the United Nations, the European Union, and the World Trade Organization.

Curriculum

Georgetown Law Center's J.D. program can be completed over three years of full-time day study or four years of part-time evening study. The school offers LL.M. programs in Taxation, Securities and Finance Regulation, and Global Health Law, as well as a general LL.M. curriculum for lawyers educated outside the United States. Beginning in the 2007-08 school year, Georgetown will offer a Masters of Studies in Law (M.S.L.) degree for professional journalists.
Students are offered the choice of two tracks for their first year of study. "Curriculum A" is similar to the traditional law curriculum taught at many schools, including courses in contracts, constitutional law, torts, property, criminal procedure, civil procedure, and legal research and writing. "Curriculum B" is a more interdisciplinary, theoretical approach to legal study, but covers largely the same content in order to prepare students to take the same upper-level classes as their Curriculum A peers. The Curriculum B courses are ''Bargain, Exchange and Liability'' (contracts and torts), ''Democracy and Coercion'' (constitutional law and criminal procedure), ''Government Processes'' (administrative law), ''Legal Justice'' (jurisprudence), ''Legal Practice'' (legal research and writing), ''Legal Process and Society'' (civil procedure, criminal procedure, and ethics), and ''Property in Time'' (property). Students in both curricula participate in a week-long introduction to international law between the fall and spring semesters.

JD, JSD, LLM programs

★ Administrative Law and Government Regulation ★ Alternative Dispute Resolution ★ Antitrust Law ★ Clinics ★ Commercial and Advanced Contract Law ★ Communications Law ★ Constitutional Law and Government ★ Corporate Law and Securities Regulation ★ Criminal Law and Procedure ★ Employment and Labor Law ★ Environmental Law ★ Family Law ★ Health Law, Policy and Bioethics

★ Intellectual Property, Entertainment and Technology Law ★ International and Comparative Legal Studies ★ International/National Security Law ★ Jurisprudence ★ Law and Other Disciplines ★ Legal History ★ Legal Profession/Professional Responsibility ★ Legal Scholarship and Writing ★ Litigation and the Judicial Process ★ Public Interest Law ★ Real Estate, Land Use and Urban Development ★ Taxation ★ Trusts and Estates

Faculty

Notable current faculty include (the following is a non-exhaustive list):

★ Charles F. Abernathy

★ Randy Barnett

★ Richard Diamond, former partner at Steptoe & Johnson, former Supreme Court clerk to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger.

★ Viet D. Dinh, former Assistant Attorney General of the United States, chief architect of the USA PATRIOT Act, Supreme Court clerk for Sandra Day O'Connor.

★ Martin D. Ginsburg, prominent tax attorney and husband of United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

★ Michael Gottesman

★ Neal Katyal, lead counsel in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, former National Security Adviser, Supreme Court clerk for Stephen Breyer.

★ Marty Lederman, former Attorney Advisor in the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel

★ Mari Matsuda

★ Glen Nager, head of Jones Day's appellate practice, general counsel to the United States Golf Association (USGA), former Supreme Court clerk for Sandra Day O'Connor.

★ Eleanor Holmes Norton, delegate to the United States House of Representatives

★ Julie O'Sullivan, former assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, former Supreme Court clerk to Sandra Day O'Connor.

★ John Podesta, former Clinton chief of staff

★ Robert Pitofsky, former Federal Trade Commission chairman

★ Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz, former attorney-advisor at the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice, former Supreme Court clerk for Justice Kennedy.

★ Laurence H. Silberman, United States Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
The roster of current professors also includes many former Supreme Court clerks and other notable legal academics and professionals.
Former professors include:

★ William Brennan, Supreme Court Associate Justice

★ Father Robert Drinan, U.S. Congressman

★ John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice of the United States

★ Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court Associate Justice

★ Mark Tushnet, prominent critical legal studies proponent, constitutional law scholar, and author of many books.

Publications

Georgetown University Law Center has ten student-run law journals and a weekly student-run newspaper, the Georgetown Law Weekly. The journals are:

★ Georgetown Law Journal

★ American Criminal Law Review

★ Georgetown Immigration Law Journal

★ Georgetown International Environmental Law Review

★ Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law

★ Georgetown Journal of International Law

★ Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy

★ Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics

★ Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy

★ The Tax Lawyer

Notable alumni

Name	Degree and year received	Accomplishments
William W. Belknap	1851	United States Secretary of War (1869-76)
George Cortelyou	1895	U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Labor (1903-04), U.S. Postmaster General (1905-07), U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1907-09)
Hall S. Lusk	1907	U.S. Senator from Oregon (1960), Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court
Dennis Chavez	1920	U.S. Senator from New Mexico
Joseph A. Cantrel	1922	Spoke at the Law Center's 50th Anniversary Celebration in 1920, stating "Law is but the means - Justice is the end."
John Sirica	1926	Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
J. Caleb Boggs	1937	U.S. Senator from Delaware
Edward Bennett Williams	1944	Founder of law firm Williams & Connolly LLP; owner of the Washington Redskins and Baltimore Orioles
John Dingell	J.D., 1952	U.S. Representative from Michigan
John D. Spellman	1953	Governor of Washington
Van P. Smith	1955	Chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
George Mitchell	1961	U.S. Senator from Maine, Democratic Senate Majority Leader (1989-95); chairman of the board of the Walt Disney Co., board of directors of the Boston Red Sox
Michael N. Castle	J.D., 1964	U.S. Representative from Delaware
Robert E. Davis	LL.B., 1964	Kansas Supreme Court Justice
Patrick Leahy	J.D., 1964	U.S. Senator from Vermont; Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman (effective Jan. 2007)
John Dean	1965	White House Counsel to President Richard Nixon and key figure in Watergate scandal
Frank Wolf	J.D., 1965	U.S. Congressman from Virginia
John A. Durkin	1965	U.S. Senator from New Hampshire
Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr.	1965	Chairman of the law/lobbying firm Patton Boggs LLP
Thomas Hogan	1966	Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Steny Hoyer	J.D., 1966	U.S. Representative from Maryland
Michael Slive	1966	Commissioner of the Southeastern Conference; first commissioner of Conference USA and Great Midwest Conference
Brendan Sullivan	1967	Senior partner of the law firm Williams & Connolly LLP
Mickey Kantor	1968	U.S. Secretary of Commerce (1996-97)
Keith Stroup	1968	Executive Director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws
Richard C. Bosson	J.D., 1969	Chief Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court
Richard Durbin	J.D., 1969	U.S. Senator from Illinois, Democratic Whip
D. Michael Fisher	1969	Judge on U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Martin Frost	1970	U.S. Representative from Texas
Ricardo M. Urbina	J.D., 1970	Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Dan Lungren	J.D., 1971	U.S. Representative from California
Don Siegelman	1972	Governor of Alabama
Gary Bauer	1973	Conservative activist and Reagan Administration official
Thomas L. Ambro	1975	Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
James H. Webb	1975	U.S. Secretary of the Navy; noted author and senator from Virginia
Vanessa Ruiz	J.D. 1975	Associate Judge on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals
John Podesta	1976	White House Chief of Staff under President Bill Clinton
Bob Barr	1977	U.S. Representative from Georgia from 1995 to 2003
Robert M. Kimmitt	1977	Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Treasury
Albert Wynn	J.D., 1977	U.S. Representative from Maryland
Lane Evans	J.D., 1978	U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1983 to 2007
Douglas Feith	J.D., 1978	Former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy in the George W. Bush Administration
Mazie Hirono	J.D., 1978	U.S. Representative-elect from Hawaii
Francisco Besosa	1979	Judge, United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico
Mitch Daniels	1979	Governor of Indiana, director of Office of Management and Budget
Greta Van Susteren	J.D., 1979 LL.M., 1983	Anchor of ''On the Record'' on the Fox News Channel
Rick White	1980	U.S. Representative from Washington
Jeffrey R. Howard	1981	U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Rives Kistler	J.D., 1981	Oregon Supreme Court justice
Jim McGreevey	1981	Governor of New Jersey
Peter Visclosky	LL.M., 1982	U.S. Representative from Indiana
Marc Morial	1983	Mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana
Bradley Belt	J.D., 1984	Former Executive Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Gov. John Lynch	J.D., 1984	Governor of New Hampshire
Terry McAuliffe	1984	Chairman of the Democratic National Committee
Marilyn Milian	J.D., 1984	Current host of The People's Court and former Florida circuit court judge
Jack Abramoff	1986	Lobbyist, political fundraiser
Chris Van Hollen	J.D., 1990	U.S. Representative from Maryland
Michael S. Steele	1991	Former lieutenant-governor of Maryland, candidate for U.S. Senate (lost to democratic candidate Ben Cardin.)
Mark Kirk	J.D., 1992	U.S. Representative from Illinois
Michael Powell	J.D., 1993	Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
David Catania	J.D., 1994	Washington, D.C. councilmember
Ted Lieu	J.D., 1994	California State Assembly member
Adam G. Ciongoli	1995	Advisor to U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito
Bill Jefferson	LL.M., 1995	U.S. Representative from Louisiana
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin	J.D., 1997	U.S. Representative from South Dakota
Stephen Glass	J.D., 2000	Journalist infamous for fabricating stories

Also attended

★ Lyndon Johnson, took classes for a few months in 1934

★ Donald Rumsfeld, in 1957 then dropped out that same year

★ David Cicilline, mayor of Providence, RI and first openly gay mayor of a U.S. capital

★ Ilana Rovner, judge on the Seventh Circuit, attended for two years before transferring to Chicago-Kent College of Law

Notes

1. Expressed by Joseph A. Cantrel (Class of 1922), at the 50th Anniversary Celebration in December 1920. See official site

External links

★ Georgetown University Law Center official site