Category: News & Media

Professor Susan Bisom-Rapp announced the publication of “Decent Work in a Post-Recessionary World,” a six article symposium issue she organized for the Employee Rights and Employee Policy Journal.  Professor Bisom-Rapp serves on the editorial board of the peer review journal, a joint publication of Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Institute for Law and the Workplace and […]

TJSL hosted a daylong seminar on Friday, August 5 – the Southern California Advancement Forum 2011. It was an exchange of ideas, experiences and best practices among representatives of Southern California law schools. The event focused on Alumni Relations, Development and Communications, departments which usually work hand-in-glove at the law schools represented. The attendees said […]

Third-year student Melissa Lewis and second-year student Rane Casalegno have been selected to represent Thomas Jefferson School of Law at the 13th Annual National Law Students Workers’ Rights Conference sponsored by The Peggy Browning Fund. The conference is scheduled to take place on October 14-15, 2011 at the National Labor College in Silver Spring, Maryland.  […]

Dean Rudy Hasl has been appointed to serve a three year term on the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Committee on the Recruitment and Retention of Minority Faculty and Students. “I am very honored to have been asked to become a member of the AALS Committee on the Recruitment and Retention of Minority Teachers […]

In Portuguese, the word for goodbye is “adeus.” On Thursday, July 28, the 72 Brazilian lawyers who studied at Thomas Jefferson School of Law for the month said “adeus” to the law school and to each other in a closing ceremony in the Earl B. Gilliam Moot Court Room. “It’s the end of a journey […]

Thirty-three Thomas Jefferson School of Law alumni are named on San Diego Super Lawyers list of Top Attorneys in San Diego for 2011. Super Lawyers, a publication of Thomson Reuters, solicits nominations from lawyers across the state, then performs its own research to evaluate them, and later has each nominee evaluated by a blue ribbon […]

Professor Marjorie Cohn will be speaking at the 2011 California Attorneys for Criminal Justice (CACJ) Appellate Practice Seminar in San Francisco State University on August 20. Her area of focus will be Miranda Issues. According to Cohn, she will be speaking about the erosion of the Miranda rule since the case was decided in 1966. […]

Seven Thomas Jefferson School of Law Professors have been named as finalists in the annual Daily Transcript Top Attorneys issue in the Academic category.  All finalists were nominated and voted upon by their peers. They are: Steve Berenson, Julie Greenberg, Marybeth Herald, Jeff Joseph, Alex Kreit, Arnold Rosenberg, and Ken Vandevelde. All of the finalists […]

Thomas Jefferson School of Law Professor Ellen Waldman will be a highlighted  speaker at LEADR Association of Dispute Resolvers Congress 2011 in Brisbane, Australia on September 7-9, 2011. The LEADR Congress is a major Pacific Rim conference that allows participants to engage in and discuss ideas pertaining to mediation in the legal profession.  Professor Waldman […]

Lifelong friendships were forged. Tears were shed. Laughs were shared. The camaraderie they had and genuine feeling for each other among  TJSL CLEO Summer Institute scholars was exceptional.  It showed at a very emotional closing ceremony, as the 41 scholars realized that they were about to go in 41 different directions to attend different law […]

TJSL’s Outlaw, along with California’s Western’s Pride student organizations, were proud to be part of San Diego’s Pride Parade this past Saturday. Both groups brought together LGBT students and allies to march. “It was an amazingly powerful event that allowed everyone to make new friends and see the support that the community provides,” said Jason […]

“If it weren’t for Stand Down, I’d be in a world of hurt,” said Army veteran Cornell Granville moments after a court commissioner approved his new, lower child support payments. Representing him in court was third year student Danielle Mor, who volunteers at Thomas Jefferson School of Law’s Veterans Legal Assistance Clinic (VLAC).  “She deserves […]