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This week, Georgetown Law's Institute for Technology Law & Policy hosted ‘Tech Foundations for Congressional Staff,' an immersive program that brings Capitol Hill staffers’ to our campus to explore the business models, legal frameworks and real-world impact of new and emerging technologies.

"Not only did I build skills in a number of areas, including legal research, fact investigation, inter-professional collaboration, and written and oral advocacy, but I was also able to gain significant hands-on experience representing and interacting with a client even before graduating," Rachel North (L'20) on her work with Georgetown's Health Justice Alliance.

In November 2017, doctors handed Brian Wallach (L’07) a diagnosis that no one in their thirties expects to hear: ALS. But Wallach is not about to let anyone or anything determine the course of his own life. In 2019, he launched patient-led nonprofit I AM ALS.

"Congress has the authority to limit the president’s reckless endangerment of the economy," writes Professor Jennifer Hillman via The New York Times Opinion Section.

#GeorgetownLaw alum and former Street Law fellow Justin Brooks (LL.M.’92) is portrayed in the new film "Brian Banks," in theatres today, which profiles former NFL player Brian Banks's wrongful conviction and how he reclaimed his life with the help of Brooks and California Innocence Project.

“If we want to treat white-nationalist shooters like the terrorists they are, & still abide by the rule of law, there’s a template right before us," Mary McCord of Georgetown ICAP explains how legal tools can be used to fight domestic terrorism via Washington Post.

"Nothing in the Constitution prevents this type of moderate gun-control legislation, and nothing about the bills would lead the country down any slippery slope," write Professor Neal Katyal and George T. Conway in a new opinion piece for Washington Post.

"But (Americans) don't tend to associate white supremacist violence with terrorism, and they should,” Mary McCord, senior litigator at the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection told BuzzFeed News. “You can't prevent what you don't understand."

“Foundations of American Law” introduces international LL.M. students to U.S. law. From common law to statutory construction, students gain skills to set them up for success in their upcoming year and beyond.

Why are U.S. tech companies arguing their workplace diversity numbers are "trade secrets"? New research by Professor Jamillah Bowman Williams reveals an industry trend that may undercut long-promised advances in hiring women and people of color.Read Professor Williams' new article on the subject via the Georgetown Law Journal: http://bit.ly/2K7TBks

The Trump administration recently announced proposed rules that would cut more than three million people's food assistance. Georgetown Law's David Super in The New York Times Opinion Section: "It’s motivated by deep hostility. That’s the only coherent thing about it."

Thirty states still deny voting rights to felons who cannot pay restitution, fines and court fees, according to a study released Thursday by Georgetown Law's Civil Rights Clinic and Campaign Legal Center.“If we are going to say that voting is a right, why should money ever come into the equation?” Professor Aderson Francois told Courthouse News Service.

Georgetown Law professors Joshua Geltzer and M. Tia Johnson, both national security and congressional oversight experts, react and discuss the implications of former special counsel Robert Mueller's testimony before Congress.#MuellerHearing

"For those who have read it, special counsel Robert Mueller's report speaks for itself. For those who haven’t, he can speak for it in Congress." Professor Neal Katyal's latest for The New York Times Opinion Section. #MuellerHearing