Category: News & Media

Anastasia Boles and Elizabeth McCuskey were among the first two scholars in Thomas Jefferson School of Law’s new Faculty Fellows Program that began in the 2010-2011 academic year. After being fellows at TJSL for two academic years, both are leaving TJSL for tenure-track faculty positions in the fall of 2012 at the University of Arkansas […]

Thomas Jefferson School of Law Professor Susan Tiefenbrun is proud to announce the publication of two new books, Tax Free Trade Zones of the World and in the United States, and Women’s International and Comparative Human Rights. “Tax Free Trade Zones of the World and in the United States (Edward Elgar Press, 2012) was a […]

Can you wear a patterned tie with a patterned shirt? Should you wear brown socks if you wear brown shoes? Should you wear a sport coat to an interview? Those questions all were answered at a TJSL special event “Success Suits Him,” presented by Phi Alpha Delta and the Black Law Students Association on March […]

When artist Joanne Williams saw her labor of love hanging in the lobby of Thomas Jefferson School of Law, she silently mouthed the word “Wow!” It took her a year and a half and nearly 400 different versions to create the three collages that are now on display on the first floor. “I did what […]

Montbleau & Associates has been awarded the Architectural Woodwork Institute’s (AWI) Standard of Excellence for its work at Thomas Jefferson School of Law. The project is featured in the Winter 2012 issue of Design Solutions Magazine, published by AWI. The article features a layout of stunning photographs of the new law school – especially the […]

Professor Susan Bisom-Rapp announced the publication on March 14th of the Second Edition of The Global Workplace – International and Comparative Employment Law: Cases and Materials.  The authorial team is the same as for the path-breaking casebook’s first edition: Roger Blanpain (University of Leuven, Belgium), Susan Bisom-Rapp (Thomas Jefferson School of Law), Bill Corbett (Louisiana […]

By Megan Mulder 2L, Executive Lt. Governor ABA LSD On March 3 the annual Spring Meeting and new governor election for the 9th Circuit ABA Law Student Division took place at Whittier Law School.    The early morning panel consisted of four attorneys who are involved in the hiring process for their firms.  These attorneys discussed […]

Professor Marjorie Cohn was a special guest lecturer at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa on March 1. Her lecture, “Torture and the Possibility of Community,” was part of a year-long series called “Reaching for Higher Ground” sponsored by the Center for Multicultural Education at the UNI. Other speakers who were there […]

By Sarah Stewart-Bussey, 3L On February 27, the Center for Law and Social Justice, led by Director Professor Alex Kreit, hosted Joe Elford, Chief Counsel of the Americans for Safe Access. The organization promotes “safe and legal access to cannabis for therapeutic use and research.” Elford is a Yale Law School graduate, a medical marijuana […]

The 7th International Contracts Conference at TJSL was a great success!  The conference, which ran Friday and Saturday, March 2 & 3, drew more than 60 contracts law professors and attorneys from around the nation, and even a professor from Netyanya Academic College in Israel.  The conference was organized by TJSL Professor Eniola Akindemowo.  Associate […]

Professor Bill Slomanson – “Pro Slo” to his students – is not just the King of Civil Procedure, but he is also in demand for the most important of all civil procedures – performing weddings. You might say he has an “altar-ego.” Over the past few years he has officiated at the weddings of several […]

By Susanne Prochazka On Monday, February 20, Steven Hill, Counselor for Legal Affairs at U.S. Mission to the UN, discussed “The View From Turtle Bay,” a reference to the downtown Manhattan neighborhood that houses the UN.  Mr. Hill began with an acknowledgment of the reality of the UN system, where it is hard to achieve […]