Thomas Jefferson School of Law
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| Established | 1969 |
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| School type | Private, Non-Profit |
| Dean | Rudolph Hasl |
| Location | San Diego, California, USA |
| Enrollment | 878 (770 Full-Time, 108 Part-Time) numbers are approximate |
| Faculty | 40 full-time; 67 adjunct |
| Bar pass rate | 76% [1] |
| Annual tuition | Full Time: $31,620.00 Part Time: $19,860.00 |
| Website | www.tjsl.edu |
The Thomas Jefferson School of Law, (TJSL), is a private, non-profit law school in San Diego, California offering Juris Doctor and Master of Law degree programs. It has no affiliation with Thomas Jefferson University located in Pennsylvania which is dedicated to health sciences.
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[edit] History
The Thomas Jefferson School of Law was originally founded in 1969 as the San Diego campus of for profit Western State University College of Law and operated as such until 1995.
TJSL became independent in 1995, and was granted provisional accreditation from the American Bar Association in 1996. It was given full ABA accreditation in 2001[2] and joined the Association of American Law Schools in 2008.[3]
In October 2008, TJSL broke ground on a new campus, which will be located in the East Village district of downtown San Diego. The new campus, an eight-story 177,000 square foot building designed to comply with Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design ("LEED") Green Building requirements, will house classrooms, a two-story law library, cafe, bookstore, and legal clinic by the 2010-2011 academic year.[4] You can view the progress of TJSL's new downtown campus 24 hours a day here
[edit] Degree Programs
- Juris Doctor
- LLM Master of Laws - International Trade
- LLM Master of Laws - American Legal Studies
- LLM Master of Laws - International Tax and Financial Services - Offered via the Diamond Graduate Law School LLM Online Program
- JSM Masters of The Science of Law for "non-lawyers" - Offered via the Diamond Graduate Law School LLM Online Program
- JSD Doctor of Juridical Science (* A PhD level Research Doctorate in Law) - Online Research Program that is available for JSM and LLM graduates.
[edit] Administration
The dean of the law school is Rudolph Hasl; Ceremonially, the Dean of TJSL also holds positions as a professor and as the President of the school.
[edit] Faculty
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Notable faculty members include:
- William Slomanson[5] who authored a textbook on California Civil Procedure used widely throughout the state.
- Marjorie Cohn[6] is the president of the National Lawyers Guild and also the author of several books including Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law.
- Susan Tiefenbrun[7] the Director of Thomas Jefferson’s Center for Global Legal Studies, the director of TJSL’s Study Abroad Program in Hangzhou, China, as well as the director of the Hofstra Study Abroad Program in Nice, France, which is co-sponsored by Thomas Jefferson School of Law.
- Susan Bisom-Rapp[8] who was recently elected to the American Law Institute, is director of Thomas Jefferson's Center for Law and Social Justice, and an expert on employment discrimination and international and comparative workplace law. Her co-authored casebook, The Global Workplace [9] (Cambridge University Press, 2007), is the first law school text on international and comparative employment law.
- Kenneth Vandevelde[10] is the author of United States Investment Treaties: Policy and Practice (1992), as well as Thinking Like a Lawyer, which was published in 1996.
- Kevin Greene[11] was recently selected by peers in the San Diego Intellectual Property (IP) Bar as one of the Top Ten Intellectual Property Attorneys in San Diego.
[edit] References
- ^ General Statistics Report July 2008 California Bar Examination
- ^ http://officialguide.lsac.org/SearchResults/ShowAllSchools.aspx
- ^ http://www.aals.org/about_memberschools.php
- ^ http://www.tjsl.edu/ground_breaking
- ^ http://www.tjsl.edu/faculty_w_slomanson
- ^ http://www.tjsl.edu/faculty_m_cohn
- ^ http://www.tjsl.edu/faculty_s_tiefenbrun
- ^ http://www.tjsl.edu/faculty_S_bisom
- ^ http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/47858/copyright/9780521847858_copyright_info.pdf
- ^ http://www.tjsl.edu/faculty_k_vandevelde
- ^ http://www.tjsl.edu/faculty_w_slomanson
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