Category: News & Media

The Thomas Jefferson School of Law is proud to announce the second installment of the TJSL Bar Study Scholarship that provides financial support to graduates studying to take the California Bar for the first time. The scholarship is designed to enable successful applicants who demonstrate financial need and academic achievement to devote more time to […]

Shannon L. Laoye 3L is the 2015 TJSL nominee for the prestigious Burton Award. On June 15, 2015, the Burton Awards will host its 16th annual gala at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., where members of the legal, academic, political, and scholarly fields will celebrate significant accomplishments in the law and recognize legal […]

Thomas Jefferson School of Law’s Women and the Law Conference 2015 will be held at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in rooms 323 and 325 on Friday, March 27, 2015. The daylong event will include prestigious panelists and a reception on the 8th floor terrace. All participants must register for the conference that will […]

Saturday, February 14th is the deadline to register for the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Workshop titled Law and War being held at Thomas Jefferson School of Law on Saturday, February 28th. This free, one day workshop being held in rooms 216, 217 and 229 is being sponsored by the TJSL Center for Global Legal Studies. […]

On January 30, four TJSL faculty members: Professors Marjorie Cohn, Marybeth Herald, Aaron Schwabach, and Bill Slomanson were honored by the San Diego Public Library at the library’s Local Authors Exhibit and reception. According to the San Diego Public Library’s website, “The Local Author Program highlights the intellectual and creative accomplishments of writers and nurtures budding […]

Thomas Jefferson School of Law’s Baseball Arbitration Team defended its competitive reputation at the 8th Annual National Baseball Arbitration Competition at Tulane University Law School in New Orleans from January 28-30. TJSL’s team competed against Pace, Rutgers, and Oregon Law for the first three rounds. “The competition is a point based system and we had […]

The tri-school Women Lawyers Panel and Champagne Reception, hosted at Thomas Jefferson School of Law on Wednesday, January 28, 2015, brought together attorneys and students from across San Diego for a candid discussion on the challenges women face in the legal profession. The panel included alumnae from each of the local law schools and was […]

Professor Marjorie Cohn spoke at the Interfaith Conference on Armed Drones at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey that ran from January 23-25. At the conference, Professor Cohn drew from her book Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral, and Geopolitical Issues where she discussed the illegality of targeted killing and assassination off the battlefield. Professor […]

On Wednesday, January 21, Managing Attorney of California Sports Lawyer, President of the TJSL Alumni Association and Director of the Center for Sports Law & Policy, Jeremy Evans ’11 was invited to speak about sports and entertainment law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. “I think Mr. Evans is an ideal person […]

Soon after graduating from the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, Brendon W. Marshall ‘13 found what he considered to be the perfect job for him. “After passing the bar, I was afforded a position as a Deputy Attorney General with the California Department of Justice. I became a statewide criminal prosecutor, representing the people of […]

From February 21 to April 13, the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program operated by Thomas Jefferson School of Law’s Tax Law Society will provide free income tax return preparation for students, low-income families, senior citizens and others who can’t afford professional tax services or are unable to complete their own tax forms. Since 1998, […]

On Monday, January 26, twenty-one Moscow State University (MSU) professors and students met with Dean Thomas Guernsey who welcomed them to the Thomas Jefferson School of law. “TJSL is a great law school,” said one of the visiting MSU students. “All of the professors I met use effective methods while teaching students in their classes. […]