Category: News & Media

Congratulations to Conrad Ohashi 2L and Nicole Heffel 3L as the Fall 2012 winners of the Veterans Clinic Alumni Scholarships. Professor Steve Berenson, the VLAC director made the announcement. “Conrad and Nicole showed tremendous commitment and dedication to the work of the clinic and to their clients, in addition to doing top-notch work,” said Professor […]

Thomas Jefferson School of Law Dean and President Rudy Hasl has announced that the law school’s new downtown campus has achieved Gold Certification under the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Program. “Going for the Gold” has been Dean Hasl’s goal from the moment the new building was conceived. “From […]

By Adeyinka Glover 3L The weekend of January 12-13, I attended National Black Law Students Association’s Western Region Annual Convention hosted in Los Angeles, California.  National Black Law Students Association (NBSLA) hosts regional conferences for its six regions throughout the months of January and February and hosts its National Convention in the month of March.  […]

By Brittany Taylor 3L Those interested in our Earth’s future have much to look forward to this spring, with the introduction of Professor Albert Monroe’s Law on Climate Change Seminar.  TJSL students got an overview and sneak-preview of the seminar from Professor Monroe on January 15. Professor Monroe began his discussion on Climate Change by […]

The excitement and enthusiasm were contagious at the open house to celebrate TJSL’s new Center for Solo Practitioners on Thursday, January 17.  There was a great turnout of TJSL professors, alumni, staff and people in the San Diego legal community for the early evening occasion. “The center is devoted to two principles,” said TJSL Adjunct […]

Thomas Jefferson School of of Law Adjunct Professor Lea Fields-Bernard has joined the staff of San Diego Mayor Bob Filner as Director of Appointments & Compliance. She will be working closely with TJSL alumnus Vince Hall ’08 who is Mayor Filner’s Chief of Staff. “I am thrilled be a member of Mayor Bob Filner’s team!,” […]

Author, author! Professor Steve Semeraro will read excerpts from his award-winning short story “The Birds They Sang at the Break of Day” on Wednesday January 23, at 7 p.m. on the 8th floor at a special event “Lawyers in Literature.”  Register online. Based  loosely on the life of TJSL alumnus and DUI attorney Eric Ganci […]

Danil Petrukh and Sophia Malysheva are both from Siberia, but they weren’t ready for the cold weather they encountered when they arrived in San Diego recently and didn’t bring enough warm clothes.  “We were unprepared for this weather,” Malysheva said, even though they both come from a place that is synonymous with cold weather. Petrukh […]

TJSL Professor Julie Greenberg’s latest book, Intersexuality and the Law, Why Sex Matters, (NYU Press) has been praised recently in a book review written by Professor Jessica Knouse in the Law and Society Review.  Read the Review Professor Knouse concludes: “Intersexuality and the Law provides a definitive account of the history and present of intersex […]

Thomas Jefferson School of Law will celebrate the official dedication of our new law school during three days of exciting events February 7-9. On Thursday evening, February 7, at 5 p.m., there will be a formal Dedication Ceremony at the historic Balboa Theater at Horton Plaza in Downtown San Diego, featuring a special appearance by […]

Thomas Jefferson School of Law welcomes Professor Michael Hayes, who is here at TJSL as a Visiting Professor for our Spring 2013 Semester. “I’m thrilled to be here because I’m interested in California because the future of law occurs here,” said Professor Hayes, who is on the faculty at the University of Baltimore Law School […]

Thomas Jefferson School of Law 2L Samantha Morales has been awarded the Orange County Hispanic Bar Association’s Wally Davis Scholarship. Morales is one of two awardees of the $8,000 scholarship, and the mother of two young daughters is very grateful for the recognition. “I am extremely humbled and honored to be recognized for my work […]