Category: News & Media

Professor William Slomanson was not teaching in spring 2014, a situation he describes as “hopefully being limited to when I’m on sabbatical. As long as they are paying me to stay away—and because this could be one of my last sabbaticals—I decided to make it count.” Making it count is no joke. Professor Slomanson has […]

Working for the White House seemed to Professor Ken Vandevelde like the next logical step in his career. And, since January, he has been doing precisely that while on a semester-long leave from TJSL. “Before joining the Thomas Jefferson faculty,” he explains, “I worked for several years at the State Department on a variety of […]

May 2014 grad Joscelyn Campbell II has secured a position at the San Diego Office of the Public Defender 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 […]

TJSL Associate Professor Meera Deo is a Visiting Professor at UCLA School of Law for Spring 2014. In Fall 2013, she was a Visiting Scholar at Berkeley Law’s Center for the Study of Law & Society. Professor Deo is a nationally-recognized interdisciplinary scholar who utilizes empirical methods to interrogate institutional diversity and affirmative action. As […]

“We are very excited about the new board and the enthusiasm, intelligence, and determination they bring to the forefront of the Law Review,” said outgoing board members Danielle Gilbert, Conrad Ohashi and Stuart Mellman. “We’ve worked tirelessly this last year to grow the Journal: establishing a new, online edition of the journal; improving the trainings […]

It was a great day to be at the ball park on Saturday, April 12 for the Annual Alumni Tailgate party! More than 200 TJSL faculty, staff, students and alums mixed and mingled while eating hotdogs, nachos, and enjoying select ice cold beverages. Some tailgaters’ even took advantage of the opportunity to hang out with […]

By Najda Aslanyan, 3L President of the Armenian Law Students Association On April 24th, the Armenian Law Students Association (ALSA) was honored to have Mark Geragos as a keynote speaker who discussed the definition of genocide in international law and the politics behind it to Thomas Jefferson School of Law students and local San Diego […]

By Alfredo Bustamante, 1L CSLP Fellow On April 22, 2014, the Center for Sports Law & Policy (CSLP) at Thomas Jefferson School of Law hosted a Sports Law panel that brought speakers from a variety of different careers in the sports industry. With over 60 fellows, students, and attorneys in attendance, the program aimed to […]

Congratulations to Thomas Jefferson School of Law Professor Maurice Dyson on being recently named as one of the 2014 “50 Under 50 Outstanding Law Professors” from the Lawyers of Color (LOC) Foundation, who recognizes the most influential minority law professors making bold contributions to the legal community. Professor Dyson is well known in the San […]

Professor Susan Bisom-Rapp spoke at Emory Law School at “A Workshop on Labor and Employment Law,” which took place April 25-26 in Atlanta. The Workshop is part of a year-long celebration of the 30th anniversary of The Feminism and Legal Theory Project, which is directed by Emory Professor Martha Albertson Fineman. Professor Fineman began the […]

For the fifth time since 2006, a Thomas Jefferson School of Law student has won the highly prestigious Burton Award for Distinguished Writing. TJSL Alum Robert M. Sagerian ‘13 is the 2014 Burton Award winner for Legal Achievement for his distinguished legal writing. “I’m really at a loss for words,” said Sagerian. “It’s truly an […]