Category: News & Media

Over the summer, 26 students from Thomas Jefferson School of Law participated in the China Study Abroad Program in the South East part of China at the Zhejiang University Guanghua School of Law in the city of Hangzhou. The program was from May 16th to June 3rd. To read more, click here.

Elizabeth M. Knowles joined the Akron Law faculty in 2016. Professor Knowles supervises the Immigration & Human Rights Law Clinic and teaches Asylum and Refugee Law. Her current research explores access to justice issues for detained non-citizens and holistic approaches to advocating for ultra-vulnerable clients in removal proceedings. To read more, click here.

Eugene Volokh, a professor at UCLA Law School, and Alex Kreit, a professor at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, discuss an appeals court decision, which upheld a federal ban on the sale of guns to medical marijuana card holders. The ruling by the 9th U.S. Court of Appeals applies to the western United States, […]

A federal ban on the sale of guns to medical marijuana card holders does not violate the Second Amendment, a federal appeals court said Wednesday.  To read more, click here.

California’s premier deposition services company, Aptus Court Reporting, has expanded Director of Business Development Jaclyn Swe’s role to include duties of General Counsel for the company. To read more, click here.

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Thomas Jefferson School of Law is proud to announce the recipient of the Veterans Clinic Alumni Scholarship for Summer semester 2016. To read more, click here.

The National University System announced today that its affiliate, City University of Seattle (CityU), a nonprofit leader in serving adult learners and providing an array of global study programs, has appointed Randy Frisch as President, effective Oct. 1. To read more, click here. 

The federal government has declined to downgrade marijuana’s classification as a dangerous drug with high potential for abuse and no medicinal value. That’s despite half the states in the union legalizing pot in some form with others likely to follow. Drug reform advocates are lamenting the move as a lost opportunity to move towards a […]

In January 2013, President Barack Obama promised to make the rules for the United States’ targeted killing program “more transparent to the American people and the world” because “in our democracy, no one should just take my word for it that we’re doing things the right way.” To read more, click here.

Thomas Jefferson School of Law Director of the Center of Sports Law and Policy Jeremy Evans ’11 published two articles in the July/August 2016 edition of the San Diego Lawyer Magazine. The articles can be found on pp.39-40 and p. 43. To read more, click here.

Now in its ninth year, Legal Elite highlights Nevada’s top attorneys as chosen by their peers. Polling for the 2016 list began in February of this year and over 6,000 nominations were collected from licensed attorneys throughout the state. Those nominees were vetted and the poll’s results, featured in the following pages, highlight the top […]