The George Washington University Law School

10/30/2026

GW Law got spooky this week for the annual trick-or-treat trail! 👻🍫

10/29/2026

Congratulations to Kennedy Harmon, Class of 2027, on receiving the American Bar Association's 2026 Hollis Salzman Memorial Scholarship, which supports students in pursuing an antitrust or consumer protection law internship or clerkship!

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Kennedy Harmon, Class of 2027, will receive the scholarship. It supports students in pursuing an antitrust or consumer protection laws internship or clerkship.

10/28/2026

GW Law 2L student, founder and executive director of the GW Law AI Forum, Eren Karaburun, came to law school with the mission to be a part of shaping how the law regulates artificial intelligence.

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Karaburun is the founder and executive director of the GW Law AI Forum. He shares why he started the organization and how it's shaped his law school experience.

10/27/2026

Congratulations to Olajumoke “Jummy” Banjo, JD ’16, and Bruce Sewell, JD ’86, on receiving the Recent Alumni Achievement and Distinguished Alumni Achievement awards, respectively, at the annual Spirit of GW Awards ceremony this past Alumni and Families Weekend.

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The event honored distinguished alumni and supporters whose achievements and generosity embody the values and mission of GW.

10/23/2026

We were thrilled to welcome Bradley Girard to campus this week as our second returning Richey Fellow for the 2026-2027 academic year! Check out his advice for those interested in pursuing public interest law.

Democracy Forward

10/22/2026

GW Law's International and Comparative Law Program recently hosted its annual Brand-Manatt Lecture in conjunction with the GW Law Review’s Vol. 95 symposium, "Suing Foreign Sovereigns in U.S. Courts: Fifty Years of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act."

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The International and Comparative Law Program hosted its annual Brand-Manatt Lecture in conjunction with The George Washington Law Review's annual symposium.

10/21/2026

Student attorneys in the GW Law Immigration Clinic helped a client avoid deportation by successfully obtaining a writ of coram vobis, which vacated shoplifting convictions from over a decade ago.

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Legal clinics give students practical experiences that give them a professional head start.

10/19/2026

Last month, Matt Nosanchuk, the Lerner Family Associate Dean for Public Interest and Public Service Law, presented the Swope Endowed Lecture on Ethics, Religion, Faith, and Values at the University of Puget Sound.

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The Swope Endowed Lecture brings academics to the University of Puget Sound to present on ethics, religion, faith, and values.

10/15/2026

For Austin Park, JD ‘23, the education he received at GW Law has been invaluable to his career so far. He said the skills he learned from his business and finance law courses and the GW Law in New York program were central to his recent clerkship and upcoming position at Clifford Chance.

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Park shares how the GW in New York program and the business and finance law program overall provided the foundation for his career in financial restructuring.

10/14/2026

GW Law Professor Alicia Solow-Niederman has been busy contributing her scholarship and expertise to conferences and projects, where she has shared insights on how to approach the complex relationships among judges, policymakers, the public, and private actors at the local, state, and federal levels.

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GW Law Professor Alicia Solow-Niederman has been busy contributing her scholarship and expertise to conferences and projects.