Category: News & Media

TJSL 1L Ryan French is looking forward to an internship in New York this summer at Columbia Artist Theatricals (CAT) – a subsidiary of Columbia Artist Management Inc. The company “specializes in the booking and tour management of live performances on a worldwide basis,” according to French. Passionate about entertainment law, French attended a conference […]

TJSL’s Lobby was all abustle with students dressed in their best at the Public Interest Career Fair coordinated by the Public Interest Law Foundation (PILF) on Thursday, February 16 .  Several organizations that serve the public sector were present at the PILF event, conducting interviews with current students who are looking for jobs and internships.  […]

The Moot Court team participates in national appellate advocacy competitions involving a wide variety of subjects throughout the year. Currently the team is preparing for the Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, the ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition, the Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition and the Traynor California Appellate Moot Court Competition.“ Traveling to Chicago […]

Move over Hollywood! The Student Bar Association at Thomas Jefferson School of Law is your new competition when it comes to producing glitzy and glamorous award shows. In fact, this year’s Barristers Ball on Saturday, February 11, raised the production bar of the annual event to new heights and proved that several members of the […]

David Scheffer says he used to be referred to as the “Ambassador to Hell,” because he visited the scene of so many atrocities when he was with the U.S. State Department. Ambassador Scheffer, who spoke at Thomas Jefferson School of Law on February 13, says he would rather be known as the “Carpenter of War […]

The Thomas Jefferson School of Law student team has triumphed at the 5th Annual Tulane National Baseball Arbitration Competition in New Orleans on Friday, Feb. 10, scoring five straight wins and beating 39 other teams from prominent law schools across the nation, including Harvard, University of Arizona, NYU, Notre Dame, Michigan, Marquette, Columbia, Chicago-Kent, Arizona […]

A new survey just released by Georgetown University ranks Thomas Jefferson School of Law’s website 13th among the 200 law school websites included in the study, an improvement from last year’s ranking at 35th  in the nation.  This is the third year that Georgetown has evaluated ABA-accredited law school home pages, using objective criteria in […]

SOPA and PIPA are two funny sounding acronyms, but to the two industries fighting it out in the internet copyright war – the entertainment industry and the internet industry – there’s nothing funny about the laws. The two proposed congressional bills were center stage at a well-attended and lively discussion panel at TJSL on February 8. The […]

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg paid a visit to TJSL Professor Richard Winchester and his students in Tunisia recently. Professor Winchester is in Tunisia on a Fulbright Scholarship, teaching Financing International Trade at the University of Carthage. On his Blog, “Notes from Tunisia”, Professor Winchester talks about meeting Justice Ginsburg and the […]

TJSL Dean Rudy Hasl stood tall among the San Diego Daily Transcript’s 2012 “Top Influentials” at a reception on Monday, Feb. 6, held to honor those selected for the prestigious recognition.   Every year the Daily Transcript bestows the “Top Influential” title on 50 leaders in the community who have “made an impact on the industry […]

Professor Julie Greenberg, who is an internationally recognized expert on the legal issues relating to gender, sex, sexual identity and sexual orientation, has been following legal developments on California’s Proposition 8 very closely.   On February 7, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Prop 8, which banned same-sex marriage in California, is […]

Members of TJSL’s student organization Phi Alpha Delta (PAD) set aside some time this week to lend a helping hand to a neighbor of TJSL, Father Joe’s St. Vincent de Paul Village.  On January 31, 2012, students Rachel Weckhorst Espejo, Thomas Schibi, Tara Almazan, Eric Bolt and Molly Fashola headed down the street to St. […]