Category: News & Media

Thomas Jefferson School of Law Dean and President Rudy Hasl has announced the promotion and the granting of tenure for several professors as well as newly-elected members to TJSL’s Board of Trustees. Professor Rebecca Lee will be promoted to the rank of Associate Professor of Law; Professor  Ben Templin will be promoted to the rank of […]

Saturday June 2 marked the 7th Annual Rady Childrens Hospital “Celebration of Champions.”  It also was the second year in a row TJSL alumni volunteered at this wonderful event! Our Champions – childhood cancer patients – along with sponsors, family members, and celebrities, perform an Olympic-style relay passing the “Torch of Life” from one to […]

“Today one journey ends, and another begins,” said Vikram Monder, at the June 6 breakfast held at the Sheraton Harbor Island, celebrating Thomas Jefferson School of Law’s newest attorneys, who all passed the February 2012 bar exam. “This is a great day for you – congratulations!,” TJSL Board of Trustees member Richard Prochazka told the […]

“This is the most convenient polling place I’ve ever been to,” said John Fink, who lives right across the street from TJSL and who got to vote in the lobby of the law school on Election Day, June 5. Part of the TJSL lobby was turned into a polling place for East Village residents, complete […]

Matthew Katsionis ’12 has been awarded the alumni scholarship as the outstanding student in the Veterans Clinic for work done this past semester. “It’s truly an honor to receive this scholarship,” Katsionis said. “I am truly humbled and plan to put the scholarship towards my bar study.”  The Thomas Jefferson School of Law Veterans Legal […]

During the graduation ceremony of Southern Virginia University held on Saturday, May 2 former SVU president and current TJSL Distinguished Professor Rodney Smith received an honorary degree. “This is the second honorary degree that I have received,” said Smith. “As a former law school dean and college president, I know how selective this process is. […]

Professor Aaron Schwabach’s latest book Fan Fiction and Copyright: Outside Works and Intellectual Property Protection (Ashgate; 2011) takes up a very complex and complicated subject:   Do published authors have a legal claim over the writings created by their own fans using the author’s characters? Fan fiction (“fanfic” or “fanworks” for short) is the practice of […]

San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association awarded its second annual Bar Stipend Scholarships on Tuesday, May 22 at The Village @ 631. SDLRLA had sixteen applications, twice the number as last year, and awarded ten well-deserving recent grads with $500 scholarships to assist with bar examination related expenses. Scholarship President Nadia Bermudez, a litigation partner […]

The results of the February California bar exam were released over the weekend. The Thomas Jefferson School of Law had 55 1st time takers, of whom 33 passed, for a 1st time passing rate of 60 percent. This compares with the California ABA 1st time taker rate of 62 percent and the Non-California ABA 1st […]

Professor Ken Vandevelde was invited to speak at the United Nations World Investment Forum, held in Doha, Qatar, on April 21-22.  The World Investment Forum is an event organized every two years to consider major economic and legal issues relating to international capital movements. Speakers included heads of state, cabinet level ministers, chief executive officers […]

The Superior Court of Pennsylvania relied heavily on a law review article authored by TJSL Professor Ellen Waldman in affirming the award of cryopreserved pre-embryos to a divorcing wife seeking  post-marital motherhood. Professor Waldman’s article, “The Parent Trap: Uncovering the Myth of ‘Coerced Parenthood’ in Frozen Embryo Disputes,” was published in the American University Law […]

A great time was had by Thomas Jefferson School of Law (TJSL) students, staff, and faculty who attended the May 10 annual dinner of the Tom Homann LGBT Law Association (THLA), San Diego County’s bar association focused on promoting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights and professional opportunities for LGBT law students and attorneys. Federal […]