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Two GW Law Alums Named "Outstanding General Counsel"

David Buchen, JD '89, and Bruce Sewell, JD '86, are respectively the top legal officers at Altavis PLC and Apple, Inc.
May 20, 2016

Elizabeth Ewert Appointed Associate Dean of Students

Ms. Ewert will leverage her years of experience to provide students with academic, co-curricular, and personal assistance.
May 11, 2016

Providing Expertise At Home and Abroad

One GW Law Professor has now testified before both the U.S. Congress and EU Parliament on issues of procurement and trade.
May 9, 2016

Class Assignment: Free a Man from Prison

GW Magazine chronicles how alumni Courtney Francik and Bart Sheard petitioned President Obama to commute a man's sentence—and he did.
May 6, 2016

Four Questions With Diploma Ceremony Speaker Gregory Garre

Mr. Garre explains why he's looking forward to Commencement and what he'd be doing if he wasn't practicing law.
May 4, 2016

Adjunct Professor Kuyomars "Q" Golparvar Wins "Spark a Life" Award

Mr. Golparvar also recently began work as an immigration judge at the EOIR.
April 29, 2016

3Ls Dane Shikman and Julia Haigney Named to "Top Law Students" List

Tipping the Scales profiled "The Top Law Students From The Class of 2016."
April 28, 2016

Balancing the Books

Alumna Kyle Zimmer’s nonprofit, First Book, is pooling the buying power of educators and families in need to change the face of—and the access to—children’s publishing.
April 28, 2016

GW Law Students Shine in Advocacy Competitions

In the past year, students succeeded in external competitions that pitted them against teams from around the world.
April 25, 2016

What Can’t You Say in School?

First Amendment rights for K-12 students are crucial to healthy democracy, Professor Catherine Ross tells GW Today.
April 22, 2016

3L Julia Haigney Named Commencement Student Speaker

Selected from a pool of 54 students, the future double GW alumna will speak to an estimated 25,000 people.
April 18, 2016

The Panama Papers: ‘Violations of Anti-Corruption, Money-Laundering, Fraud, Tax Laws’

Assistant Dean Jessica Tillipman answers questions about leaders implicated in the journalism world’s largest data leak.
April 13, 2016