Thomas Jefferson School of Law
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| Thomas Jefferson School of Law | |
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| Established | 1995 |
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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, commonly referred to as TJSL, is a private, non-profit law school in San Diego, California offering Juris Doctor and Master of Law degree programs.
For the July 2008 administration of the California Bar Exam, TJSL first-time takers achieved a pass rate of 76%.[2] Top-Law-School.com has described TJSL as being "on the rise" within the San Diego area for its "continually increasing bar passage rate and a decreasing acceptance rate."[3]
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[edit] History
Thomas Jefferson School of Law was founded in 1969 as the San Diego campus of Western State University, College of Law. TJSL became independent in 1995, was granted provisional accreditation from the American Bar Association in 1996, given full ABA accreditation in 2001[4] and joined the Association of American Law Schools in 2008.[5]
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.[6] You can view the progress of TJSL's new downtown campus 24 hours a day here
[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[7] who authored a textbook on California Civil Procedure used widely throughout the state.
- Marjorie Cohn[8] 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[9] 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[10] 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 [11] (Cambridge University Press, 2007), is the first law school text on international and comparative employment law.
- Kenneth Vandevelde[12] 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[13] 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] 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 primarily available for attorneys that are LLM graduates.
[edit] Alternative Dispute Resolution
The Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Team competes in negotiation, mediation and client counseling competitions. Experienced lawyers judge the students' abilities to resolve disputes outside the traditional litigation process. Thomas Jefferson teams have reached the finals of numerous regional competitions and competed at the national level quite successfully.
Three ADR teams from Thomas Jefferson took first, second, and sixth place at the American Bar Association Western Regional Negotiation Competition. The top two Thomas Jefferson teams went on to the national competition in Chicago, capturing fourth and fifth place in the nation. A Thomas Jefferson student also was the highest-ranking woman in the competition.
The Thomas Jefferson ADR team finished in first place at the California State Bar Environmental Negotiation Competition, beating 19 teams from 14 other schools that included UC Davis, Loyola, UCLA, and Hastings. The victory marks the fourth time in the last five years that Thomas Jefferson has finished first or second in the competition and it's the second first-place win in the last three years.
[edit] References
- ^ General Statistics Report July 2008 California Bar Examination
- ^ General Statistics Report July 2008 California Bar Examination
- ^ Top-Law-School.com
- ^ 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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