Georgetown Law School

Georgetown University Law Center
Seal of Georgetown University
Motto	Law is but the means — Justice is the end
Parent school	Georgetown University
Established	1870
School type	Private
Parent endowment	$1.529 billion
Dean	William Treanor
Location	Washington, DC, United States 38°53′54″N 77°0′45″W / 38.89833°N 77.01250°W / 38.89833; -77.01250
Enrollment	1,860 JD, 441 LL.M, 17 SJD
Faculty	126 (ft), 159 (pt)
USNWR ranking	15
Bar pass rate	90.96%
Website	www.law.georgetown.edu
ABA profile	ABA Profile

Georgetown University Law Center (commonly referred to as Georgetown Law School or Georgetown Law) is one of the professional graduate schools of Georgetown University, a private research university located in Washington, D.C. Established in 1870, it is the second largest law school in the United States, and receives more full-time applications than any other law school in the country.

For many years, Georgetown Law was included in the so-called Top 14, a group of elite law schools that have consistently placed at the top of the U.S. News rankings since the magazine began the rankings in 1987. By average salary, Georgetown Law graduates have ranked 6th in the U.S. The school is among the top feeder schools for big law firms in the U.S.

Georgetown Law has placed in U.S. News & World Report's top 14 (out of over 200) law schools every year since the inception of the magazine's law school rankings, until 2017 where it was ranked 15th. In the 2014 edition, Georgetown was ranked the #13 law school in the nation overall and its part-time J.D. program was ranked #1. The school also ranked #1 in clinical programs, #3 in international law, #2 in tax law, #4 in trial advocacy, #7 in healthcare law, and #8 in environmental law. The 2014 QS World University Rankings list Georgetown as the 17th-best law school in the world and 8th-best in the United States. In its latest ranking, December 2014, Business Insider ranks Georgetown as the 7th best law school in the US.