Kelsi Brown Corkran, '05, Named Georgetown Law's Supreme Court Director
ICAP Names Kelsi Brown Corkran as Supreme Court Director
WASHINGTON — Georgetown Law’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP) announced today that Kelsi Brown Corkran has been named the organization’s first Supreme Court director. Corkran will oversee ICAP’s Supreme Court litigation, focusing on civil rights and criminal justice matters at both the certiorari and merits stages.
“I have long admired ICAP’s critical litigation defending constitutional rights and separation of powers, and I’m thrilled to join the team to expand that work before our nation’s highest court,” Corkran said.
Kelsi Brown Corkran
Corkran served as lead counsel in two of the most significant civil rights cases before the Court in the 2020 term. She successfully argued Torres v. Madrid, in which the Court reversed a lower court decision and held that police use of force with the intent to restrain a person is a seizure, even if the force does not succeed in subduing the person. In Taylor v. Riojas, Corkran led a challenge to inhumane prison conditions that marked the first time in 16 years that the Court denied qualified immunity to a government officer.
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