Announcing the 2025 Recipient of the President’s Award for Distinguished Scholar-Teachers

Dear Members of the Georgetown University Community:

I am pleased to announce this year’s recipient of the President’s Award for Distinguished Scholar-Teachers:

Eloise Pasachoff, J.D., M.P.A., M.A.
Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law
Anne Fleming Research Professor
Georgetown Law

We will recognize Professor Pasachoff for her exceptional scholarship and extraordinary teaching at Spring Faculty Convocation on Monday, April 7, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. in Gaston Hall on the Hilltop Campus.

I thank everyone who submitted nominations in the fall. I also thank Ken Kellar, Ph.D., in the Department of Pharmacology & Physiology, for chairing our committee of faculty members and past scholar-teacher awardees who reviewed the nominations and identified a small group of finalists.

Please join me in congratulating Professor Pasachoff on this recognition.

Sincerely,

Robert M. Groves
Interim President

About Eloise Pasachoff

Professor Pasachoff joined our community in 2011 and holds the titles Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law and Anne Fleming Research Professor. A specialist in administrative law, budget and appropriations law, education law, and public administration, she is widely regarded as a pre-eminent legal scholar on the expenditure of federal money—a highly relevant topic in today’s governance landscape. She is the recipient of several national awards for her scholarship: from the American Constitution Society (the 2022 Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition on Regulatory and Administrative Law), the American Bar Association (the 2017 Scholarship Award in Administrative Law—co-recipient), and the Education Law Association (the 2012 Steven S. Goldberg Award for Distinguished Scholarship).

In 2017, she received the Frank Flegal Teaching Award, bestowed by Georgetown Law. Her students describe her as an exemplary scholar-teacher, and her challenging courses frequently receive perfect scores in student evaluations. Outside the classroom, she has testified before Congress and been cited by the Supreme Court, the D.C. Circuit, and several other federal courts. Professor Pasachoff has co-authored a leading administrative law casebook and solo-authored numerous law review articles, including, most recently, Modernizing the Power of the Purse Statutes in the George Washington Law Review (Vol. 92, 2024), and Executive Branch Control of Federal Grants: Policy, Pork, and Punishment in the Ohio State Law Journal (Vol. 83, 2022).

As a mentor and community member, Professor Pasachoff is cherished for her earnest generosity of spirit and admired for her remarkable dedication to her students and colleagues alike.