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Georgetown University Law Center ('''GULC'''), sometimes '''Georgetown Law''', is Georgetown University 's Law School . Princeton Review ranks it in the top ten for "Best Career Prospects" and "Best Overall Academic Experience." Law School 100, a ranking scheme that purports to use qualitative criteria instead of quantitative, ranks the law school seventh overall, tied with Cornell, University of Virginia and others. The school is a member of the Association Of American Law Schools (AALS). Its current dean is T. Alexander Aleinikoff . According to the 2008 edition of U.S. News and World Report, GULC is the #14 ranked law school in the nation overall, and is #1 in clinical programs, #3 in international law (tied with Harvard), and #3 in tax law. The law school often emphasizes that its location in close proximity to federal government agencies, courts, and the Supreme Court offer a significant advantage in the study of law. HISTORY Opened as Georgetown Law School in 1870 , it was the first law school run by a Jesuit institution within the U.S. GULC has been separate from the main Georgetown campus (in the neighborhood of Georgetown ) since 1890 , when it moved near what is now Chinatown . The GULC campus is located on New Jersey Avenue, several blocks north of the Capitol , and a few blocks due west of Union Station . CAMPUS looking east. From left to right, the Edward Bennett Williams Law Library , McDonough Hall, and Gewirz Student Center.]] The law campus is located in the Capitol Hill area of Washington, D.C. It is bounded by 1st St. NW to the west, E St. NW to the south, and New Jersey Avenue to the northeast, forming a triangle. The campus consists of five buildings. Bernard P. McDonough Hall (1971, expanded in 1997), houses classrooms and Law Center offices and was designed by Edward Durrell Stone . The Edward Bennett Williams Law Library building (1989) houses most of the school's library collection. The Eric E. Hotung International Law Center (2004) includes two floors of library space housing the international collection, and also contains classrooms, offices, and meeting rooms. The Bernard S. and Sarah M. Gewirz Student Center (1993), provides housing mostly for first year law students. A four-level Sport and Fitness Center (2004) includes a pool, fitness facilities, and cafe, and connects the Hotung Building to the Gewirz Student Center. Libraries The Georgetown University Law Library supports the research and educational endeavors of the students and faculty of the Georgetown University Law Center. As one of the premier research facilities for the study of law, the Law Library houses the nation's fourth largest law library collection and offers accesses to thousands of online publications. The mission of the library is to support fully the research and educational endeavors of the students and faculty of the Georgetown University Law Center, by collecting, organizing, preserving, and disseminating legal and law related information in any form, by providing effective service and instructional programs, and by utilizing electronic information systems to provide access to new information products and services. The collection is split into two buildings. The Edward Bennett Williams Law Library (1989) is named after Washington, DC lawyer Edward Bennett Williams , an alumnus of the Law Center. It houses the Law Center's United States law collection, the Law Center Archives, and the National Equal Justice Library. The Williams library building consists of five floors of collection and study space and provides office space for most of the Law Center's law journals on the Law Library's first level. The John Wolff International and Comparative Law Library (2004) is named after John Wolff, a long-serving member of the adjunct faculty and supporter of the Law Center's international law programs. The library is located on two floors inside the Eric E. Hotung building. It houses the international, foreign, and comparative law collections of the Georgetown University Law Center. Wolff Library collects primary and secondary law materials from Australia , Canada , France , Germany , Great Britain , Ireland , Mexico , New Zealand , Scotland , and South Africa . English translations of primary and secondary legal materials from other jurisdictions and compilations of foreign law on special topics are also included. In addition to foreign law, the Wolff Library maintains an extensive collection of public and private international law, focusing on international trade, international environmental law, human rights, arbitration, tax and treaty law. The collection also includes documentation from many international organizations, including the International Court Of Justice , the United Nations , the European Union , and the World Trade Organization . CURRICULUM Georgetown Law Center's J.D. program can be completed over three years of full-time day study or four years of part-time evening study. The school offers LL.M. programs in Taxation , Securities And Finance Regulation , and Global Health Law, as well as a general LL.M. curriculum for lawyers educated outside the United States. Beginning in the 2007-08 school year, Georgetown will offer a Masters of Studies in Law ( M.S.L. ) degree for professional journalists. Students are offered the choice of two tracks for their first year of study. "Curriculum A" is similar to the traditional law curriculum taught at many schools, including courses in Contracts , Constitutional Law , Torts , Property , Criminal Procedure , Civil Procedure , and Legal Research And Writing . "Curriculum B" is a more interdisciplinary, theoretical approach to legal study, but covers largely the same content in order to prepare students to take the same upper-level classes as their Curriculum A peers. The Curriculum B courses are ''Bargain, Exchange and Liability'' ( Contracts and Torts ), ''Democracy and Coercion'' ( Constitutional Law and Criminal Procedure ), ''Government Processes'' ( Administrative Law ), ''Legal Justice'' ( Jurisprudence ), ''Legal Practice'' ( Legal Research And Writing ), ''Legal Process and Society'' ( Civil Procedure , Criminal Procedure , and Ethics ), and ''Property in Time'' ( Property ). Students in both curricula participate in a week-long introduction to International Law between the fall and spring semesters. JD, JSD, LLM programs
FACULTY Notable current faculty include (the following is a non-exhaustive list):
The roster of current professors also includes many former Supreme Court Clerks and other notable legal academics and professionals. Former professors include:
PUBLICATIONS , viewed from the campus north quad.]] Georgetown University Law Center has ten student-run law journals and a weekly student-run newspaper, the Georgetown Law Weekly . The journals are:
NOTABLE ALUMNI Also attended
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