Category: News & Media

The purpose of the student organizational fair held on Wednesday, January 18, was to showcase each individual organization at TJSL and of course to entice new recruits to join. Sarah Stewart-Bussey 3L, with the Student Veterans of America, says “we understand there are eight veterans among the new entering class and we would love for […]

It was the day Wikipedia went dark and Google had a black banner across its logo.   The Wikipedia website was deliberately disabled on January 18 in protest of two laws under discussion in Washington – SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, and PIPA, the Protect Intellectual Property Act.   The controversy pits the entertainment […]

Thomas Jefferson School of Law is tied for second in the nation among ABA-accredited law schools that report the most employment data, according to an analysis of a new report by Law School Transparency (LST.) The data is based on 2010 graduates and the analysis appears today(1-24-12) on the National Jurist magazine website. TJSL is […]

It’s a major accomplishment for TJSL’s Black Law Students Association Mock Trial Team. They won the Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial Competition, held at the Western Regional BLSA conference in Seattle, January 11-15. “We basically didn’t have a winter break because we worked so hard,” said team member 2L Ationette Scott. On the first day of […]

TJSL’s Washington, D.C. area alumni kicked off 2012 with great energy and camaraderie at the Petits Plats restaurant on January 5. Dean Rudy Hasl, along with 14 faculty and staff members who were in the area to participate in the Annual AALS Conference, greeted and updated the dynamic group of alumni. Representing class years from […]

Although the program didn’t officially begin until 9:30 a.m., most of the new students were already in their seats and ready to go at 8:30 a.m. “I’m excited, a little nervous, but ready for the challenge,” said 1L Ivy Andrews, one of the 93 entering students at TJSL’s Spring Orientation on January 13.  She gave […]

TJSL Dean and President Rudy Hasl has been named one of San Diego’s 2012 “Top Influentials” by the San Diego Daily Transcript. This is a distinct honor and recognizes Dean Hasl’s many achievements both at TJSL and in the community – only 50 community leaders in San Diego were selected Top Influentials out of 300 […]

“Human trafficking is a contemporary form of slavery that violates human rights,” stressed Thomas Jefferson School of Law Professor Susan Tiefenbrun on Wednesday evening, January 11, when TJSL’s Center for Global Legal Studies CGLS) teamed up with Soroptimists International of San Diego to present a special event in observance of National Human Trafficking Awareness Day.  […]

Thomas Jefferson School of Law and the Hycrete company are going to be recognized at the annual GreenSite Awards during the World of Concrete conference in Las Vegas on January 24. Hycrete is an environmentally-friendly concrete admixture used in the construction of TJSL’s new Downtown Campus.  The product turns concrete into a waterproof barrier, saving […]

The director of TJSL’s Center for Sports Law and Policy, Professor Rod Smith, doesn’t hold much hope that the meetings being held to discuss possible restructuring of the BSC (Bowl Championship Series) to select a national college football champion will bring about the kind of change that he thinks is necessary. The meetings began the […]

Professor Richard Winchester is in Tunisia on a Fulbright Scholarship to teach Financing International Trade at the University of Carthage. He is keeping a blog of his experiences “Notes from Tunisia” and it’s extremely interesting. Read the blog

A group of 52 Brazilian attorneys arrived at TJSL on Monday, January 9 to take part in the three-week U.S.-Brazil Legal Education Exchange Program (LEEP). LEEP gives the attorneys an education in the ways of the American legal system, which is very different from the system in their native Brazil.  The first group of LEEP attorneys […]