Admissions and costs For the class entering in fall of 2025, the school received over 14,000 applications for 650 spots. For the class entering in the fall of 2024, 2,276 out of 11,309 J.D. applicants (20.13%) were offered admission, with 625 (27.46%) matriculating. The median LSAT score for the class entering in fall of 2024 is 171 and the median undergraduate GPA is 3.92. In the 2024–25 academic year, Georgetown Law had 2,176 J.D. students, of which 32% were minorities and 56% were female. The total cost of attendance (indicating the cost of tuition, fees, and living expenses) at Georgetown Law for the 2024–25 academic year is $113,450. The Law School Transparency estimated debt-financed cost of attendance for three years is $419,938.
Publications , viewed from the campus north quad. Georgetown University Law Center publishes fourteen student-run law journals, two peer-reviewed law journals, and a weekly student-run newspaper, the
Georgetown Law Weekly. The journals are: •
American Criminal Law Review •
Food and Drug Law Journal •
Georgetown Environmental Law Review •
Georgetown Immigration Law Journal •
Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law •
Georgetown Journal of International Law •
Georgetown Journal of Law and Modern Critical Race Perspectives •
Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy •
Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics •
Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy •
Journal of National Security Law and Policy •
Georgetown Law Technology Review (online only) •
Georgetown Law Journal Clinics Georgetown's clinics are: Appellate Litigation Clinic, Center for Applied Legal Studies, The Community Justice Project, Criminal Defense & Prisoner Advocacy Clinic, Criminal Justice Clinic, D.C. Law Students in Court, D.C. Street Law Program,
Domestic Violence Clinic, Federal Legislation and Administrative Clinic, Harrison Institute for Housing & Community Development Clinic, Harrison Institute for Public Law, Institute for Public Representation, International Women's Human Rights Clinic, Juvenile Justice Clinic, Intellectual Property and Information Policy Clinic, and Communications and Technology Law Clinic. In the Winter 2017 edition of
The National Jurist, Georgetown Law's Moot Court Program was ranked #4 in the country for 2015–16 and #5 among U.S. law schools that have had the best moot courts this past decade. Georgetown Law participates in moot court competitions through its Barristers' Council, which has Alternative Dispute Resolution, Appellate, and Trial divisions.
Appellate Litigation Clinic Directed by Professor Erica Hashimoto (following 36 years of leadership by Professor Steven H. Goldblatt), the Appellate Litigation Clinic operates akin to a small appellate litigation firm. It has had four cases reach the United States Supreme Court on grants of
writs of certiorari. One such case was
Wright v. West, 505 U.S. 277 (1992), considered in
habeas corpus the question whether the de novo review standard for mixed questions of law and fact established in 1953 (the
Brown v. Allen standard) should be overruled. Another was
Smith v. Barry, 502 U.S. 244 (1992), which reversed a
Fourth Circuit determination that the court did not have jurisdiction over an appeal because the defendant's pro se brief could not serve as a timely notice of appeal.
Center for Applied Legal Studies CALS represents
refugees seeking political asylum in the United States because of threatened persecution in their home countries. Students in CALS assume primary responsibility for the representation of these refugees, whose requests for asylum have already been rejected by the U.S. government. The Center for Applied Legal Studies was founded in the 1980s by Philip Schrag. Until 1995, the Clinic heard cases in the field of consumer protection. Under the direction of Schrag and Andrew Schoenholtz, the Clinic began specializing in asylum claims, for both detained and non-detained applicants. In conjunction with their work for the Clinic, Schrag and Schoenholtz have written books about America's political asylum system, with the help of Clinic fellows and graduate students. The duo's most recent book,
Lives in the Balance, was published in 2014 and provides an empirical analysis of how Homeland Security decided asylum cases over a recent fourteen-year period. The group's work in human rights law has met praise from international organizations like the
United Nations Human Rights Council. Under the direction of Schrag and Schoenholtz, the clinic has also focused on more prolonged displacement situations for political refugees.
Civil Rights Clinic CRC operates as a public interest law firm, representing individual clients and other public interest organizations, primarily in the areas of discrimination and constitutional rights, workplace fairness, and open government. The Clinic is directed by Professor Aderson Francois, who joined in 2016. Students work with CRC staff attorneys to litigate
Freedom of Information Act claims,
wage theft suits, and retaliation claims on behalf of employees terminated for asserting their rights under
FLSA and DC Wage and Hour law.
Criminal Defense and Prisoner Advocacy Clinic Students in CDPAC represent defendants facing misdemeanor charges in
D.C. Superior Court, facing
parole or supervised release revocation from the
United States Parole Commission working with the
Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, and they also work on prisoner advocacy projects.
Abbe Smith is the director of CDPAC. Former Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia lawyer
Vida Johnson works with Smith in CDPAC and the Prettyman fellowship program.
DC Street Law Program The DC Street Law Program, Directed by Professor Charisma X. Howell, provides legal education to the DC population through two projects: the Street Law High Schools Clinic and the Street Law Community Clinic. Professor Richard Roe directed the Street Law High Schools Clinic since 1983. Professor Howell became the director in 2018. In the program, students introduce local high school students to the basic structure of the legal system, including the relationship among legislatures, courts, and agencies, and how citizens, especially in their world, relate to the lawmaking processes of each branch of government.
Harrison Institute for Public Law , the 46th
president of the United States. The Harrison Institute is one of the longest running public law clinics in the country, having begun as the Project for Community Legal Assistance in 1972. In 1980, it was renamed in honor of Anne Blaine Harrison, a philanthropist and early supporter of the institute. Over its history, the institute has been home to several clinical programs, including focuses on state and local legislation, administrative advocacy, housing and community development, and policy. In 2019, under the directorship of Robert Stumberg, the institute consists of four policy teams: Climate, Health, Human Rights, and Trade. Each of these teams involves students working to shape policy to achieve client goals. == Campus ==