Georgetown University Law Center

Welcome to Graduate Legal Studies at Georgetown Law, where students have an unparalleled opportunity to broaden and deepen their understanding of law through advanced study. Our extraordinary faculty combines world-class scholars with sophisticated practitioners, leading judges, and key government policymakers and officials. In this environment, U.S. and international lawyers gather to challenge themselves to reach the next level of excellence through LL.M., S.J.D., and specialized certificate programs. These factors contribute to the Georgetown difference in graduate legal education. No other school combines the richness of the Georgetown curriculum - more than 350 advanced classes and seminars in every field of law –with the advantages of a location in the heart of Washington, D.C., a global center for law and policymaking. Georgetown draws on its DC advantage every day by placing students in LL.M.externships that cannot be duplicated in any other city and by bringing those whose daily work is making and shaping the law into classrooms where they teach the leaders of the future.