Category: News & Media

After spending 16 hours at work, making 15 trips to the roof of the Palms Hotel across the street from TJSL and shooting more than 100 photos of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law’s exterior, Communications Art Director Sherwin Laranga’s “Sun Cycle” idea has come to light… literally. “I came up with this Sun Cycle […]

In 2010, Thomas Jefferson School of Law was pleased to establish a new annual scholarship in collaboration with Lawyers Club of San Diego, a non-profit specialty bar association seeking to advance the status of women in the law, to support and improve the administration of justice and to promote equality of women and men in […]

TJSL’s Jefferson Law Republicans, along with the San Diego Republican Party and other local supporters, helped welcome presidential candidate Texas Governor Rick Perry to San Diego on Wednesday night, September 7. Perry was greeted at the San Diego airport immediately following the Republican Presidential Debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley.  He […]

Classes are cancelled for Friday, September 9, 2011, however the building is open because power has been restored. The TJSL Library will be open at 10 a.m. Friday, with limited staffing and will probably close early this evening. All classes, practices and events scheduled for this weekend will proceed without interruption as planned. The Parkade […]

Professor William Slomanson has just achieved a pinnacle of scholarly endeavor. His various publications (148) have been cited over 1,000 times (now numbering 1,034). His work has also been reprinted in 2 book sections, 2 op-eds, 3 book reviews, and 9 law reviews. He has authored or co-authored 17 books, 32 law review articles, and […]

Professor Susan Bisom-Rapp will be serving as a scholarly commentator at Seton Hall University in October as part of the Seton Hall Young Scholars’ Workshop.  The workshop is designed as a forum to provide beginning labor and employment law scholars with feedback from established scholars in the field. Professor Bisom-Rapp says she is pleased to […]

Professor K.J. Greene presented at the Second Annual Sports Law Symposium at Santa Clara Law on September 8. The conference was titled Intensifying Sports Law Issues: Concussions, Steroids, Labor Strife and the Use of Player Images. “My talk on rights of publicity and performance rights gap in IP law, with reference to black performers, was […]

Thomas Jefferson School of Law once again took on a strong international flavor as the San Diego French-American Chamber of Commerce (SDFACC) met at TJSL on August 31. It was a cultural exchange in the purest sense of the word, as the event featured seminars on both the French and the American legal systems for […]

Judging by the Student Organization Fair held on Thursday, September 1, this is going to be a fantastic year for the student groups who were signing up new members. The place was packed! The suite TJSL’s more than 30 organizations occupy on the fifth floor was full of students checking them out and the positive energy in […]

Professor Bill Slomanson has organized a panel for the American Bar Association’s International Law Section. On October 13, he, and the speakers he has recruited for this conference in Dublin, Ireland, will debate “Human Rights Violations and State Secession: An Evolving Standard?” His co-panelists include the President of Kosovo’s Constitutional Court, a member of Hungary’s […]

“This is a stellar panel,” Associate Dean Jeff Joseph said as he introduced the three speakers from the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) who spoke at TJSL on Wednesday, August 31. “You can hardly find a more qualified panel to discuss the practice of law.” The event was titled: “Keys to Success in the […]

3L Bryce Dodds is not only excited about graduating in a few months, but ecstatic about the fact that he is easily able to sell his many law books that he’s accumulated over the past three years via The Jeffersonian’s online Classified Section. “My shelf is a little emptier and my wallet is a little […]