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The school's original sign, preserved on the north quad of the present-day campus.
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The school's original sign, preserved on the north quad of the present-day campus.

The Georgetown University Law Center campus, viewed across I-395 looking east. From left to right, the Edward Bennett Williams Law Library, McDonough Hall, and Gewirz Student Center.
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The Georgetown University Law Center campus, viewed across I-395 looking east. From left to right, the Edward Bennett Williams Law Library, McDonough Hall, and Gewirz Student Center.

McDonough Hall, the main classroom building, facing 2nd St. NW
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McDonough Hall, the main classroom building, facing 2nd St. NW

Edward Bennett Williams Law Library, viewed from the campus north quad.
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Edward Bennett Williams Law Library, viewed from the campus north quad.

The Hotung International Law Center and the GULC fitness center, seen across the south quad.
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The Hotung International Law Center and the GULC fitness center, seen across the south quad.

Gewirz Student Center provides student housing for mostly first-year law students.
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Gewirz Student Center provides student housing for mostly first-year law students.

Georgetown University Law Center (GULC) is Georgetown University's law school. It is among the ten most selective law schools in the United States and is considered to be in the "top 14," a legal insider recognition of its reputation. 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. The law school ranked in the top 10 in 7 categories of U.S. News 2006 edition, including tax, international law, and others.

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 currently located on New Jersey Avenue, several blocks north of the Capitol, and a few blocks due west of Union Station. The campus is composed of the classroom building of McDonough Hall (Designed by Edward Durell Stone); the Edward Bennett Williams Law Library; the Gewirz Student Center (completed 1993), which provides housing to mostly first year law students; and the Hotung International Law Center, which includes the Jon Wolff International and Comparative Law Library (completed 2004). A three-level sports and fitness center that includes a pool and cafe was built connected to the Hotung building. 

Among the current GULC faculty are former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta, former U.S. Congressman Father Robert Drinan, and former Federal Trade Commission chairman Robert Pitofsky, as well as many former Supreme Court clerks and other notable legal academics and professionals.  Former professors include Supreme Court Justices William Brennan, Antonin Scalia and Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr..



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President Lyndon Johnson also attended classes at the Law Center for a few months in 1934, but did not graduate. Donald Rumsfeld entered the Law Center in 1957 after serving in the military, but dropped out that same year.



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