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Law and Magic Conference Being Held on Friday, June 6

May 22, 2014

Thomas Jefferson School of Law and The Law and Humanities Institute is presenting the Law and Magic conference on Friday...

China Study Abroad Program is Underway in Hangzhou

May 22, 2014

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...

TJSL Students to be Summer Associates at Alverson Taylor Mortensen & Sanders

May 22, 2014

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,...

Sports Fellows Attend 40th Annual Sports Lawyers Association Annual Meeting

May 20, 2014

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...

Najda Aslanyan Accepts Post Bar Position at the Ventura County of Public Defende

Najda Aslanyan Accepts Post Bar Position at Ventura County Public Defenders Office

May 20, 2014

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...

Professor Ken Vandevelde leaving the West Wing of the White House

Professor Ken Vandevelde's Sabbatical in Washington D.C.

May 16, 2014

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...

Professor Slomanson's 2014 Sabbatical

Professor Slomanson's 2014 Sabbatical

May 16, 2014

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...

Professor Meera Deo is a Visiting Professor at UCLA School of Law

May 9, 2014

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 &...

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