Category: News & Media

TJSL Professor Marjorie Cohn has released a new printing of her book Cameras in the Courtroom: Television and the Pursuit of Justice, co-authored by former CBS News correspondent David Dow. The highly praised first printing of the book, published in 1998 by McFarland & Company, was cited in a   U.S. Supreme Court opinion, as Professor […]

Distinguished German Professor Manfred Weiss, who is a major name in international and comparative workplace law circles, lectured at Thomas Jefferson School of Law on April 21, as the special guest of Professor Susan Bisom-Rapp. Professor Weiss’ very animated and informative presentation was titled “Developments in European Union Social Policy: What the Shift from Hard […]

A group of TJSL professors are offering the opportunity to run off your end-of-semester energy and raise money for the Public Interest Law Foundation (PILF) at the same time. The “Last Day of Class Run & Walk” will be held on Wednesday, May 4, from 11:40 a.m. until 12:50 p.m. “It’s not a race, but […]

“Good ethics is good practice of law.”  Those words from criminal defense attorney Charles Sevilla seemed to summarize the message of the TJSL Criminal Law Society’s panel “Ethical Challenges in the Practice of Criminal Law,” held April 19 at the law school. In addition to Sevilla, the panel included Fourth District Appeals Court Associate Justice […]

Appellate Advocacy Competition By Paul J. Spiegelman, Director of Advocacy & ADR Programs Please join me in congratulating Jinny Campbell and Sean Smith and their coach Stephen Nicholson for achieving “Best Brief — second place” in the San Francisco Regionals of the ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition. The regionals brought together 32 teams from all […]

Professor Richard Winchester has been named as a Fulbright Scholar to teach in Tunisia during his sabbatical leave, which begins in January of 2012. Very excited to be accepted into the program, this completes a 30 year dream of Professor Winchester’s to teach in Northern Africa, which began when he was in Paris. “I expect […]

Los Coronados Dive By: Scott Greene 2L On Sunday, April 10, 2011, I went on a scuba diving trip to the Coronados Islands, which are located a short distance into Mexico from the U.S. border, with a chartered dive boat named the Horizon. After having three great dives in the morning and afternoon, we were […]

By 3L Kristen Spees After finishing my second year of law school I decided that I needed a little adventure in my life. I planned my classes so that all my finals were done by December 6th and I left December 7th for South America by myself.   I planned to go kiteboarding in Cartagena, Colombia […]

The 9th Annual Sports Law Symposium at TJSL on April 9 drew a large audience and covered up to the minute issues in the world of sports and representation of athletes. The event was moderated by adjunct professor and sports agent Randy Grossman, who teaches sports law at TJSL. The first panel, “Management, Marketing and Protecting […]

The International Law Society held its annual Monte Carlo Casino Night fundraiser on Saturday, April 9. The event drew more than 100 guests to the San Diego Rowing Club in Mission Beach. Our celebrity dealers, Professor Delman, Christensen, Poplin and Dean Kransberger, entertained and ‘wowed’ guests, delicious desserts from Heavenly Cupcakes and music by DJ […]

Mostly Controversy By Eric Bernsen, 2L. Last Friday, TJSL’s Center for Law and Intellectual Property (CLIP) and the IP Fellows Program hosted a standing-room only symposium which certainly lived up to its name “The TRIPS Agreement and the Global Integration of IP Law: Convergence or Controversy?” when panelists from several industries discussed—and certainly debated—the intricacies of […]

Diversity Week 2011 at Thomas Jefferson School of Law was one of the most action-packed ever. There were at least a dozen events on campus connected with TJSL’s commitment to and celebration of diversity – along the issues that are part of it. See more stories and photos of Diversity Week in the April 18 […]