Academic Conferences
For more information about any of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law Academic Conferences, please go to the conference home page. Each conference title and graphic below is a link to the conference homepage.
There are no upcoming academic conferences scheduled at this time.
Past Academic Conferences
March 13 - 14, 2008
Globalizing Secured Transaction Law - Current Problems, New Directions
We are happy to announce that this conference has been rescheduled for March 13-14, 2008. We are also proud to announce that the State Bar of California Section on Business Law and the ABA Committees on Business Law and Commercial Finance have signed on as co-sponsors of the conference.
03/07/08
Women and Children's Rights in Haiti Conference
Friday, 12:30 - 6:00 p.m., CYB 200
This conference is sponsored by the TJSL and the Center for Global Legal Studies.
Speakers include Mr. Raymond Joseph, Haiti’s Ambassador to the United States; Deputy Rodon A. Bien-Aime, a member of the Haitian Parliament; Ms. Barbara Walker, head of the Reach Out to Haiti organization which provides assistance to homeless women, who will speak on prostitution in Haiti; Professor Mohamed Y. Mattar a world famous scholar on trafficking and the new trafficking law in Haiti and Vera Valdivia, a student from TJSL who helped organize the conference and is well versed in UNICEF's role in international adoptions in Haiti. Also speaking is the Director of the Center for Global Legal Studies, Professor Susan Tiefenbrun, who is one of the leading scholars in the field of human trafficking especially of women and children.
More Information
February 29, 2008
Eighth Annual Women and the Law Conference
Please join us for the Eighth Annual Women and the Law Conference as we explore Women in Politics and The Role of Gender in Political Decision Making.
This program qualified for five (5) hours of MCLE credit by the State Bar of California, in which one (1) hour applied to Elimination of Bias.
February 15 - 16, 2008
The Global Workplace: Expanding Intellectual Borders With International and Comparative Workplace Law
Co-sponsored by Thomas Jefferson School of Law's Center for Law and Social Justice & Center for Global Legal Studies, and Cambridge University Press.
Presented as a VideoConference at LSU and Seton Hall.