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Each year, Georgetown Law welcomes graduate students from more than 70 countries, representing approximately 300 law schools worldwide.
Supreme Court cases that were mooted at Georgetown in 2019-20.
Number of students who participate in 19 different clinics.
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AI & The LawFor the cover feature of our latest issue of Georgetown Law Magazine, we talked to members of our faculty and to alumni to learn how lawyers and legal educators are starting to engage with emerging artificial intelligence technologies.
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“This all came out of Wisconsin and expanded to other states,” said McCord, who helped negotiate the settlement. “That was a significant part of the narrative that led to the violence on Jan 6.” Continue Reading
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"We will soon see AI models that do not live up to our legal and societal ideals in many other ways, such as large language models that spout misinformation, deep fake models used to terrorize women, and facial recognition models that destroy privacy." Continue Reading
Human Rights
During the 2022-23 school year, students in the Human Rights Advocacy in Action Practicum partnered with Nadia's Initiative, an organization founded by 2018 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad, a survivor of the Islamic State’s genocidal attack on the Yazidi community of northwestern Iraq. In the course of their work developing possible pathways to justice for Yazidis, they traveled to Erbil, Iraq and to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Public Service
White House National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi, L’15, looks back on his student days and shares his advice for future lawyers interested in environmental law and public service.
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Our cover story focuses on how law schools and lawyers are beginning to engage with artificial intelligence (AI). How, if at all, should students use generative AI platforms in their coursework? Where are our faculty finding interesting areas of scholarship to pursue when it comes to these technologies? What do our alumni in law firms, tech companies and nonprofits think about AI?
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