Media Advisories

First Amendment Values in Health Care Symposium

Join the Health Law Initiative to explore controversies in health care and public health that implicate the First Amendment and its values with respect to free speech and the free exercise of religion. The symposium will examine issues related to COVID-19—including vaccine mandates, public health regulations, and media reporting on the pandemic—and issues beyond the pandemic, including accessing professional advice and medical information, regulating drug labeling, enforcing conscience clauses, and assessing the impact of the expanding role of religious hospitals in delivering care.

Impeachment, the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, and the Final Days of President Trump

Join GW Law as we host Brian Kalt, Professor of Law and Harold Norris Faculty Scholar, Michigan State University College of Law, to discuss constitutional law of the presidency, impeachment, succession, and the 25th Amendment.

GW Law Dean Dayna Bowen Matthew's Statement on the Passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Tonight we mourn the loss of a great Justice. I am writing to acknowledge that many in our community were very close to Justice Ginsburg. She was a great friend of GW Law and a frequent visitor to our campus. My heart is especially with each of you who knew her well. Her passing is an enormous loss to our community and our country."

President Obama, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Elizabeth Warren and Others Speaking at Virtual Event Commemorating 10 Year Anniversary of Dodd-Frank Act

Better Markets and George Washington University Law School’s Business and Finance Law Program will co-host a virtual conference on Tuesday, July 21, the 10th anniversary of the signing of the Dodd-Frank Act, the most sweeping financial reform law since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The program will look back at the consideration, passage, and impact of that historic financial reform law as well as look forward at preventing future crashes, protecting consumers and investors, getting finance to serve society, reducing inequality, and creating broad-based prosperity for all Americans.