Category: News & Media

Five TJSL Professors recently appeared at the Law and Society Conference in the first week of June in Honolulu, Hawaii. Professors Brenda Simon, Meera Deo, Brian Wildenthal, Rebecca Lee and Kaimi Wenger all gave presentations on highly varied topics of their research and expertise. Professor Brenda Simon presented her work titled “The Implications of Cognitive […]

Thomas Jefferson graduate Charity Hodson has been selected as the next judicial law clerk for the Honorable David Wiseman at the Superior Court for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Charity graduated magna cum laude in May 2012, and she will start the position after taking the July 2012 California Bar Examination. During law […]

The Supreme Court released a number of opinions on Monday, June 25, including a ruling on Arizona’s highly controversial immigration law. These highly anticipated Supreme Court announcements made it a busy media day for TJSL Professors Marjorie Cohn and David Steinberg. Professor Steinberg was interviewed by Dana Littlefield at the San Diego Union-Tribune, Doug Sherwin […]

Nearly 400 attendees from across the nation visited the Thomas Jefferson School of Law campus from June 21-23 for “Some Assembly Required,” the 22nd Annual CALI (Conference for Law School Computing) Conference. As guests checked in, they found hundreds of LEGO pieces at a “build your own souvenir” table – setting the stage for the […]

Maysa Eissa, Esq., Associate Director of Career Services, has been selected to serve on the 2012-2014 Equal Justice Works National Advisory Committee.  Over the next two years, the Committee comprised of 14 members, will support Equal Justice Works’ mission to mobilize the next generation of public interest attorneys by acting as ambassadors within the law […]

By Caron Woodward ‘06 The yearly summer “FaceLift” event took place on June 9, and several members of the TJSL alumni community participated, including Ray Ryan ‘05, Steve Burke ‘06, Carmela Blair ‘09, Steve Matcha ‘06, and house captain Caron Woodward ‘06, as part of the San Diego County Bar Association’s team. FaceLift is a […]

Professor Bryan H. Wildenthal, who has volunteered to be the Project Scholar for the San Diego Public Library’s series “Searching for Democracy: A Public Conversation About the Constitution,” delivered the inaugural lecture in the series on Wednesday evening, June 13, in the Wangenheim Rare Book Room at the Central Library. Aimed at the general public as […]

The June 14 issue of the CPI  Antitrust Chronicle features a series of articles, including one by Thomas Jefferson School of Law Professor Steve Semeraro, with differing viewpoints about the Department of Justice antitrust suit filed in April against Apple and five major publishing houses that alleges price-fixing on e-Books.  Professor Semeraro’s article, “Should the […]

Thomas Jefferson School of law was recently selected by the law school’s main information technology vendor Cisco for a case study of TJSL’s amazing technological achievements. TJSL is among the most technologically innovative and advanced law schools in the United States, and the system was installed by Cisco, along with its partner TekWorks, at the […]

A group of 15 attorneys from Brazil arrived at TJSL on Monday, June 11 for this summer’s LEEP Program (Legal Education and Exchange Program.) The Brazilians will be on campus for three weeks, taking a course on the Fundamentals of the U.S. Legal System. “It is a pleasure to have my colleagues from Brazil here,” […]

Thomas Jefferson School of Law welcomed another group of admitted students to the campus on Friday, June 8 for a special presentation and reception. All have been accepted to TJSL for the fall 2012 semester. Some have decided to attend TJSL, and some are undecided. But the event gave the undecided students a chance to […]

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco issued a ruling on Tuesday, June 5, that it will not rehear the case over the constitutionality of Proposition 8 that would ban gay marriage.   That means the court’s earlier ruling that Prop 8 is unconstitutional still stands, although same-sex marriages are in limbo pending […]