Category: News & Media

Four members of the Moot Court Honor Society traveled to San Francisco to hear their faculty advisor Professor Paul J. Spiegelman argue a death penalty appeal before the California Supreme Court (People v. Sonny Enraca). Students who attended the appeal included Jesse Allen, Rane Casalegno, Samantha Ciriaco, and Zachary Ruetz. The trip was part of […]

 “We couldn’t let 11-11-11 go by without doing something special,” Dean Rudy Hasl said as he welcomed everyone to a Veteran’s Day celebration in the lobby of TJSL. And it was special. TJSL honored all of its veterans and active duty personnel for their service. Students, faculty, staff and alumni, were all called to the […]

By Caron Woodward ’06 FaceLift is an incredible community project sponsored by Community Housing Works and various volunteer groups, including the San Diego County Bar Association. Twice per year, hundreds of volunteers gather in a neighborhood in the City Heights area of San Diego to “spruce-up-a-block” in a day. Community Housing Works puts forth tremendous […]

Thomas Jefferson School of Law has been named one of this year’s Fulbright Scholarship “Top Producers”  by the Institute of International Education and the Fulbright Program’s sponsor, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Top-producing institutions in all Carnegie Classifications were highlighted in the October 24th digital edition of The Chronicle […]

By Chelsea Halpine-Berger, 2L Phi Alpha Delta, Clerk Phi Alpha Delta’ s annual soiree, “Wine, Cheese, and Judges’ Pet Peeves,” held at the Hotel Indigo on November 1, attracted a substantial crowd of law students eager to find out what NOT to do in court.  Four Superior Court judges were there to reveal their biggest […]

By Kevin Laroza, 3L “There were aspects that we really messed up on.”                                                – Acting Director of Secure Communities Jon Gurule This theme set the tone for the Illegal Immigration and Secure Communities panel which was sponsored by the Criminal Law Society, the Immigration Law Society, the Jefferson Law Republicans, and the Public Interest […]

Associate Dean William H. Byrnes and Dr. Robert J. Munro, who both teach in TJSL’s online International Tax & Financial Services LL.M. program, have just co-authored an online publication Money Laundering, Asset Forfeiture and Recovery and Compliance–A Global Guide, in association with LexisNexis and Matthew Bender. It’s available on the LexisNexis website, and according to TJSL’s […]

On October 28th and 29th, Professor Susan Bisom-Rapp served as a senior commentator at Seton Hall University School of Law’s Sixth Annual Employment and Labor Law Young Scholars’ Forum. The forum provides junior labor and employment law scholars with scholarly commentary and critique from established scholars in the field. Professor Bisom-Rapp says she is pleased […]

Thomas Jefferson School of Law has been ranked in the top 5 for externship opportunities by National Jurist Magazine. TJSL’s 5th-place ranking is based on the ratio of externships the school has placed and the number of full-time students. For total enrollment based on full-time and part-time students, TJSL is 15th in the nation. TJSL has […]

The Thomas Jefferson School of Law was invaded by zombies on Monday, October 31! Witnesses identified the invading zombies as Dean Rudy Hasl, Professor Steve Semeraro, Professor  Bill Slomanson and Assistant Dean William Byrnes. They had white pasty skin, bugged-out eyeballs and their arms stretched out straight ahead.  Said Faculty Assistant Randy Ward, “I was […]

CLIMB’s first “Culture Night,” presented by 2L Alex Partida, kicked off to a great start.  TJSL students joined students from the Crawford Law Academy for an enlightening interactive presentation that focused on mainstream urban music versus the more socially conscious hip-hop.  The purpose of this particular “Culture Night” was to help the youth take an […]

As part of a more than week-long San Diego State University educational program called the “Symposium on Moral Courage,” Thomas Jefferson School of Law hosted a lecture on the Armenian Genocide, with UCLA Professor and historian Dr. Richard G. Hovannisian. The Armenian Holocaust was one of the first genocides to take place in modern history, […]