A third-year Georgetown law student was among the 157 people killed Sunday when the airplane they were flying in crashed in Ethiopia.

Cedric Asiavugwa was traveling to his native Kenya to attend the funeral of his fiance’s mother, according to an email dean William Treanor sent to students Sunday evening. Asiavugwa was enrolled in the school’s dual J.D. LL.M. program in International Business and Economic Law and planned to return to Kenya to promote the rights of refugees after graduating, according to Treanor.

This content has been archived. It is available through our partners, LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law.

To view this content, please continue to their sites.

Not a Lexis Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Not a Bloomberg Law Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Why am I seeing this?

LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law are third party online distributors of the broad collection of current and archived versions of ALM's legal news publications. LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law customers are able to access and use ALM's content, including content from the National Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Legaltech News, The New York Law Journal, and Corporate Counsel, as well as other sources of legal information.

For questions call 1-877-256-2472 or contact us at [email protected]