Category: News & Media

Associate Dean Susan Bisom-Rapp’s co-authored book, Lifetime Disadvantage, Discrimination and the Gendered Workforce (with Malcolm Sargeant) (Cambridge University Press 2016), has been released in paperback. “I’m very excited that the book will be available in this form,” she said, “because it makes the material affordable and broadens our audience.” The book, co-authored with Malcolm Sargeant (Middlesex University, […]

Candace Moon ’07 appears on the cover the June 2018 edition of the ABA Journal, the magazine published by the American Bar Association. She is featured in an article about niche law practices. After graduating from TJSL, Candace parlayed her expertise as a bar tender into a unique law practice advising the craft beer industry. Labeling herself […]

Thomas Jefferson School of Law’s newest attorneys were celebrated at a reception held in their honor after they were sworn in on Thursday, June 7th. Their families and friends, along with Thomas Jefferson School of Law alumni, faculty, and staff, gathered in Thomas Jefferson School of Law’s boardroom to wish the new attorneys well as […]

A 1996 graduate of Thomas Jefferson School of Law is the next Lawyers Club of San Diego President, taking office July 1, 2018. Recipient of multiple Director’s Scholarships for Outstanding Academic Achievement, Cotman was also on the Honor Roll each semester and received Honorary Recognition in the National Dean’s List. She was awarded the Corpus […]

Opens New Facilities with Campus Move to Heart of San Diego. Thomas Jefferson School of Law said today it is significantly advancing its Moving Forward plan with a debt-free balance sheet and a campus move to 701 B Street in the heart of downtown San Diego this fall. Read more here.

Associate Dean Susan Bisom-Rapp quoted in an article in the Washington Times about a bi-partisan proposal to reform the sexual harassment policies and procedures covering Congress and those working on Capitol Hill. To read more, click here.

Adjunct Professor and Patent Clinic Supervisor Paul Liu, has published an article titled Open Source Pitfalls at the Biotechnology-High Technology Crossover. Software is eating the biotechnology world. However, managers in the traditional biotechnology sector may not be familiar with open source and related compliance issues that are bound to come up as they develop high technology solutions […]

Associate Dean Aaron Schwabach has reached an impressive milestone. His academic papers posted on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) have been downloaded more than 10,000 times. SSRN is the world’s leading open-access repository for social science research; it includes scholarly legal research as well as works in more than 20 other fields. Professor Schwabach’s 10,100 downloads […]

On May 10th, Associate Dean Susan Bisom-Rapp and Professor Rebecca Lee spoke at an event hosted by the Stanford Law Review. “UNLEASHing Equality: #MeToo and Sex Harassment Law” featured the authors of five essays, which will be published in June by Stanford Law Review Online. Associate Dean Bisom-Rapp presented her thoughts about the lack of […]

Dean Bullock’s column can be read on page 9 in the March/April 2018 edition of San Diego Lawyer

Each year, the PTO holds a seminar where supervising attorneys in the clinics and students gather at the Alexandria, VA, PTO office just outside of Washington, DC. This year’s seminar was attended by current TJSL supervising attorneys JD Cowart (patent clinic) and Joanna Tsai (trademark clinic) as well as the school’s former patent clinic supervisor Mimi […]

Kath Rogers (’16) has accepted a position as Executive Director of the National Lawyers Guild Los Angeles chapter. The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) is the nation’s oldest and largest progressive bar association and was the first one in the US to be racially integrated. It unites lawyers, law students, and legal workers in a common […]