Category: News & Media

By Maysa Eissa, Esq. Associate Director of Career Services   Cameron Oxberry (1L) will join the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Principal Legal Advisor (“OPLA”) in Los Angeles as a legal intern this summer. This flagship office is the largest legal program within the Department of Homeland Security, providing legal advice, training and services to […]

Yasser Clor (3L) has accepted a post-graduate 3-6 month funded internship in Bergamo, Italy. Clor will be working with ADAPT, a nonprofit organization aimed at promoting research in the field of industrial and labor relations from a comparative and international perspective. As a fellow with the organization, Clor will collaborate with attorneys on comparative labor […]

Stephannie Obioha (1L) will be doing an internship in Geneva, Switzerland this summer at WaterLex, a non-governmental Swiss organization dealing with water governance and human rights, affiliated with the United Nations. “I am originally from West Africa’s Nigeria, so as a foreign national, I’ve always been interested in international law as well as environmental law,” […]

Thomas Jefferson student Jason Miller (2L) will be working at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Istanbul, Turkey.  Miller will be working for Umurcan Gago, a Director of Tax Services at PwC, writing treatises on doing business in Turkey and the Middle East.  Among other projects, he will be writing the Turkey chapters in Foreign Tax & Trade […]

Thomas Jefferson School of Law’s dean and two alumni were honorees at the 2013 San Diego County Bar Association Law Week Luncheon and Celebration of Community Service on April 30. All were honored for their service to the legal community. Dean Rudy Hasl was honored with the Service to the Legal Profession Award for “furthering […]

Now in its second year, the passing of the torch from the outgoing to the incoming Student Bar Association board has become a tradition at TJSL. “We hope you can work together to create a smooth transition,” said Student Services Director Lisa Ferreira at the ceremony, held in the 8th floor board room on May […]

By Jonathan Conway and Ian Seruelo   On April 23, a group of TJSL students joined together and became the founding members of the newly formed Labor & Employment Law Association (LELA) in campus.   “The primary mission of LELA is to promote the practice of labor and employment law among TJSL students. LELA also […]

It was a great day to be at the ball park on Saturday, April 27 (if you are a San Diego Padres fan, that is). In a 12 inning game the Padres beat the San Francisco Giants 8 to 7!   And the Annual Spring Alumni Tailgate party was hopping! More than 200 TJSL students, […]

Amy Louttit (3L) made a return trip to Sacramento to once again testify successfully on legislation that affects homeless children in California.  She was there representing not only her work with the San Diego Unaccompanied Youth Task Force, but also as a Board Member of TJSL’s Law Students for Reproductive Justice (LSRJ) Chapter. Louttit was […]

TJSL Professor Marjorie Cohn recently spent two days in Istanbul, Turkey, attending a special conference on world peace. Here is her account of the trip: “On April 25 – 27, I attended the International Peace Congress in Istanbul, sponsored by the World Peace Council and the Peace Association of Turkey. Delegates from many countries, including […]

TJSL student Randy Abreu (2L) was recently awarded the 2013 Google Policy Fellowship. As part of the Fellowship, Abreu was offered a paid summer internship in Washington D.C., at the National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC), a non-profit, civil-rights and media advocacy organization. The Google Policy Fellowship offers undergraduate, graduate and law students interested in Internet […]

If you haven’t picked up the latest edition of the San Diego Lawyer Magazine, make sure to pick one up! The March/April edition of the magazine features Dean Hasl and TJSL Alumni and faculty. The magazine’s feature story is on the beautiful new San Diego County Bar Association’s “Bar Center” at 401 West A Street. […]