Category: News & Media

On May 16-18, Professor Marjorie Cohn helped to organize and attended the 45-year reunion of the Stanford anti-Viet Nam War movement. On April 3, 1969, 700 Stanford students voted to occupy the Applied Electronics Laboratory (AEL), where classified (secret) research on electronic warfare (radar-jamming) was being conducted at Stanford. That spawned the April Third Movement […]

On May 29th, Professor Susan Bisom-Rapp and her co-author Professor Malcolm Sargeant (Middlesex University Business School, London, UK) presented their paper “Age, Gender, and Lifetime Discrimination Against Working Women” at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, which this year was held in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The theme of the conference was “Law and Inequalities: Global […]

On Wednesday, June 4, 2014, Thomas Jefferson School of Law bar passers, their families and friends along with Alumni, faculty and staff came together on TJSL’s 8th floor to celebrate Thomas Jefferson School of Law’s newest attorneys. “The law school really is a community,” said TJSL President and Dean Thomas Guernsey. “It is a community […]

The new Thomas Jefferson School of Law Alumni Association Board of Directors were sworn in by Dean Thomas Guernsey on Wednesday, May 28 in the Moot Courtroom. The Alumni Board is made up of 25 TJSL alums who graduated from 1981 to 2012. This group of alums say they are up for the challenge and […]

Professor Susan Bisom-Rapp will present a talk at the University of California, San Diego on Tuesday, May 27th as the guest of The Center for Research on Gender in the Professions (CRGP). Her talk, It’s Complicated: Age, Gender, and Lifetime Discrimination Against Working Women, is based on an article she co-authored with U.K. Professor Malcolm […]

Thomas Jefferson School of Law ranks as the number one undervalued law school according to Paul Caron of Pepperdine University School of Law, who writes for TaxProf Blog: A Member of the Law Professor Blogs Network. In Ranking Law Schools: Using Social Science Research Network (SSRN) to Measure Scholarly Performance, 81 Ind. L.J. 83 (2006), […]

Shanly Hopkins 3L and Mahna Pourshaban 3L will be summer associates at Alverson Taylor Mortensen & Sanders in Las Vegas, NV. The firm practices general civil litigation, medical malpractice, construction defect, and numerous other specialties. Ms. Hopkins is looking forward to her summer in Las Vegas and she is “excited about the opportunity to practice […]

33 TJSL students and three faculty members arrived in Hangzhou, China on Saturday, May 17 for the three week, ABA approved, International and Comparative Law Study Abroad Program. The program began the following day with a guided tour of Hangzhou on Sunday, May 18. Students attended an orientation session on the first day of classes, […]

Thomas Jefferson School of Law and The Law and Humanities Institute is presenting the Law and Magic conference on Friday, June 6. This conference discusses various ways that the law handles magical issues and ways that magic influences the legal profession. Registration is free to TJSL students, faculty, alumni and staff and includes a boxed […]

May 2014 grad Najda Aslanyan has secured a position at the Ventura County Public Defenders Office as a post bar law clerk. The Post Bar clerkship affords students the opportunity to experience the demanding practice of a public defender. The program is nationally recognized and is designed to give students not just an understanding of the criminal […]

By Sam Ehrlich ‘14 From May 15-17, Jason Barmasse (3L) and I had the distinct pleasure of attending the 40th Annual Sports Lawyers Association (SLA) annual meeting at the Fairmont Hotel in Chicago, IL. At the conference, many of the top lawyers, practitioners, students and professors in the sports law field gather for three days […]