Category: News & Media

Professor Susan Bisom-Rapp spoke at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Labor and Employment Relations Association on January 8, in Chicago.  The theme of this year’s annual meeting was “Employment Relations and Workplace Representation in the Recovering Economy.” In keeping with her interest in older workers and her expertise in international and comparative employment law, […]

Former Ambassador David Scheffer will speak to all faculty, staff and students at TJSL in on February 13, 2012, Room 325, at 11:30 a.m. This event is sponsored by the Center for Global Legal Studies and organized by the center’s director, Professor Susan Tiefenbrun. The speaker, America’s first Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues, […]

Thomas Jefferson School of Law Professor Susan Tiefenbrun will be speaking on National Human Trafficking Awareness Day as part of a special screening of “Indoctrinated: The Grooming of Our Children into Prostitution” on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 6:30 p.m. at the law school. The event is co-sponsored by TJSL’s Center for Global Studies and […]

The 7th Annual International Conference on Contracts will be hosted by the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in its new state-of-the-art facility in San Diego California on March 2nd & 3rd 2012. In the fine tradition of previous conferences held at Stetson, UNLV, McGeorge, South Texas, Texas Wesleyan and Gloucester, England, this conference will provide […]

Thomas Jefferson School of Law will present a special screening of “Indoctrinated: The Grooming of Our Children into Prostitution” on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 6:30 p.m. The event is being held on National Human Trafficking Awareness Day and is co-sponsored by TJSL’s Center for Global Studies and STAT! (Soroptimists Together Against Trafficking,) and the […]

On behalf of everyone in the TJSL family, we welcome you to the Spring 2012 semester! It has been one year since the first classes were held at TJSL’s new downtown campus! It seems hard to believe that the first year in our new home went by so quickly. Students returned on January 17 for […]

Arnold Rosenberg, Thomas Jefferson School of Law’s Assistant Dean for Distance Education Programs, has been elected to the board of directors of the San Diego Bankruptcy Forum, the leading local organization of the bankruptcy bar. Also, at the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) annual meeting on January 7, 2012 he will be installed as […]

Thomas Jeffferson School of Law alumni and one student participated in a recent reception for ABA President Bill Robinson on  December 19, hosted at DLA Piper. The event was co-sponsored by the San Diego chapters of the Immigration Justice Project (IJP), La Raza Lawyers Association, Lawyers Club and the Federal Bar Association. Alumni Lorena Slomanson ’03, […]

Thomas Jefferson School of Law, including the Library, will be closed from Thursday, December 22 through Monday, January 2. The law school will re-open on Tuesday, January 3. We wish you the happiest and safest of holidays!

Professor Marjorie Cohn participated in a panel discussion at the International Human Rights Film Festival in Vienna on December  5,  before the world premiere of War on Terror. The film “War on Terror” was made by an Austrian filmmaker, Sebastian J. F. See. It’s in English and is very powerful, according to Professor Cohn.  On the […]

The San Diego French-American Chamber of Commerce held its second Legal Business Conference at Thomas Jefferson School of Law on December 7. It was called The French & American Legal Systems: A Comparison on Business Taxation. The chamber’s Executive Director Elsa Depeupiere opened the event and thanked everyone for coming.  SDFACC Director Lionel Bochurberg then […]

Thomas Jefferson School of Law Professor Marjorie Cohn participated in a Downtown San Diego demonstration and rally on Saturday, December 17, calling for the U.S. military to release former US Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning, who is charged with leaking military secrets to the “Wikileaks” website. If convicted, Manning could face life in prison. Professor […]