Juris Doctor - Consumer Protection, Social Welfare, and Employment in Washington United States | Georgetown University

Georgetown Law boasts a faculty comprising the nation's foremost experts in consumer protection law, financial regulations, labor law, and social welfare legislation. Our professors combine extensive government experience—having held senior positions at the Federal Trade Commission's consumer protection and economics bureaus, the DOJ Civil Rights Division, and Health and Human Services—with exceptional teaching and research capabilities. This unparalleled combination of practical expertise and academic excellence distinguishes Georgetown's faculty from all other law schools. Their influential scholarship spans critical areas including financial regulation, housing market crises, pharmaceutical law, and tobacco control. In social welfare law, faculty have produced groundbreaking work on policy frameworks, affirmative action models, poverty alleviation initiatives, and youth support programs. Additionally, they've litigated landmark labor cases before the Supreme Court while publishing influential research on wage disputes, disability accommodations, and employment discrimination.