Category: News & Media

“I am a CLEO Fellow and I’m very proud of it,” U.S. District Court Judge John Houston told the CLEO Summer Institute Scholars from TJSL who visited his courtroom on Friday, June 8. “I have a soft spot for CLEO.” Judge Houston is at once a commanding presence, as well as a warm, smiling and […]

Thomas Jefferson School of Law welcomes two new faces to Career Services. Starting in early August, Joshua D. Winneker will be joining TJSL as the new Assistant Dean for Career Services. Randy Reliford, the new Associate Director of Career Services, joined the Career Services team in May. Dean Joshua D. Winneker Dean Winneker comes to us […]

Thomas Jefferson School of Law has taken on very much of a Brazilian flavor. 72 attorneys from Brazil have arrived to study this summer at TJSL. It’s part of the law school’s new U.S.-Brazil Legal Education Exchange Program (LEEP). Dean Rudy Hasl welcomed the lawyers on July 5, saying that he had arranged a special […]

By Elisabeth Donovan, Communications Student Assistant To third year TJSL student Emily Cohen, getting hands-on international criminal law experience in Europe sounded like a dream opportunity. During the Spring 2011 semester, she got the chance to live that dream by working at The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), a United Nations court […]

Thomas Jefferson School of Law Dean Rudy Hasl has announced that Robert Knowles has accepted an offer to join the law school as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law for the 2011-2012 academic year. “I could not be more thrilled to be joining the TJSL community,” Professor Knowles said. “TJSL truly has it all:  a […]

The late Judge Earl B. Gilliam was many things to many people. He was a trail-blazer, a highly-respected judge, a law professor and, most of all, a beloved figure to all who knew him. That is why the dedication ceremony of Thomas Jefferson School of Law’s Earl B. Gilliam Moot Courtroom in his honor was […]

There are older homes all over San Diego in need of a facelift.  And a whole block of older homes got “extreme makeovers” to their exteriors on a recent Saturday – thanks to a small army of volunteers that descended on Trojan Avenue in City Heights – including several TJSL alumni and students. FaceLift is […]

It was a significant first – for the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and for Thomas Jefferson School of Law. On Wednesday evening, June 15, TJSL hosted a free immigration clinic presented by AILA, during its annual convention being held in San Diego. AILA’s goal:  to serve the community here while they are in town. […]

Professor Bill Slomanson presented at the Institute for Teaching and Learning summer 2011 conference—”Engaging and Assessing Our Students”—at the New York Law School, on June 3, 2011. Conference participants encountered new ideas about ways to engage students in and out of class, how to involve students in a range of experiential and simulated learning exercises, […]

Equal Justice Works recently announced its 2011 Summer Corps Members.  This year there were a record 1,898 applications, so the selection process was highly competitive.  This year TJSL students, Juan Guzman and Stephanie Lamson accepted the prestigious the award. Juan will be working at Kids in Need of Defense in Los Angeles, and Stephanie will […]

Thomas Jefferson School of Law was well-represented at an event held by the Earl B. Gilliam Bar Association in honor of the late Judge Napoleon Jones. Judge Jones was a highly respected jurist and an inspiration to so many in the legal profession and the turnout to honor him filled the Presidential Ballroom at the […]

The Thomas Jefferson School of Law Board of Trustees has approved recommendations to grant tenure to three TJSL law professors and to promote a fourth. Professor Kaimipono Wenger will be promoted to the rank of Associate Professor of Law and Professors Julie Cromer Young, Madeline Kass and Claire Wright will be granted tenure effective August […]