This summer, explore issues like punishing minors as adults, victims’ rights vs. prisoners’ rights, racial and socioeconomic disparities in arrests and sentencing, the value of the peer jury system, and the balance between personal security and national security. Through interactive discussions with legal and policy professionals, faculty, and students and site visits to places where laws are made and enforced, you’ll expand your awareness and preparation for a career in law.
Explore the social, political, economic, and cultural realities that determine how and why laws are created, and when and where they are enforced. Discover how the many different beliefs and values that make up American society impact the rule of law, and get an up-close look at how those laws are administered. Then, determine how power, position, and privilege affect perceptions of justice, and how people are treated differently under the same set of laws.
Georgetown is where many of the nation’s lawmakers, administrators, and interpreters were educated—from corporate attorneys and prosecutors to politicians and a sitting Supreme Court justice. Woven into the introduction to jurisprudence that students receive here is a thorough examination of the most vexing issues of our day and a look at how America’s legal institutions change as popular values, standards, and perspectives evolve.
2010 Tuition: $1,900 includes tuition, room, and board.
Program Application.pdf Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
