[9][10] GW Law has an alumni network that includes notable people within the fields of law and government, including the former U.S. Attorney General, the former U.S. Secretary of the Interior, foreign heads of state, judges of the International Court of Justice, ministers of foreign affairs, a Director-General of the World Intellectual Property Organization, a Director of the CIA, members of U.S. Congress, U.S. State Governors, four Directors of the FBI, and numerous Federal judges.

The George Washington University Law School was founded in the 1820s but closed in 1826 due to low enrollment.

Brewer, Willis Van Devanter, and John Marshall Harlan are among those who served on its faculty.

[18][19][20] In 2024, Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will preside over the 2024 Van Vleck Moot Court Competition.

[26] Instead of supplying students with individual class rankings, GW Law recognizes academic performance with two scholar designations.

[33] GW Law is located in the heart of Washington's Foggy Bottom neighborhood, across the street from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund headquarters, and a few blocks away from the State Department and the White House.

The law school currently occupies nine buildings on the main campus of The George Washington University.

The law school's main complex comprises five buildings anchored by Stockton Hall (1924) located on the University Yard, the central open space of GW's urban campus.

Renovated extensively between 2001 and 2003, these buildings adjoin one another, have internal passageways, and function as one consolidated complex.

program, students must have taken the LSAT within the past five years and must submit a personal statement and at least one letter of recommendation.

[45] GW Law has placed 27 clerks at the U.S. Supreme Court in its history, including in the 1930s Francis R. Kirkham, later partner at Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro in San Francisco and then general counsel to Standard Oil of California, and Reynolds Robertson, who worked for Cravath, deGersdorff, Swaine & Wood in New York City, both co-authors of a seminal work on the Court's jurisdiction.

[46][47][48] According to GW Law's official 2019 ABA-required disclosures, 73.6% of the Class of 2019 obtained full-time, long-term, bar passage-required, non-school funded employment ten months after graduation.

[49] The main employment destinations for 2019 GW Law graduates were Washington, D.C., New York City, and Virginia.

[51] GW Law's tuition and fees on average increased by 4.1% annually over the past five years.