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Animal Law Panel

Defending Animal Rights

April 18, 2012

By Elisabeth Donovan, 3L

“People like people who help animals,” attorney Anne Perry said to a crowd of TJSL students. Perry works for the U.S. Department of Justice prosecuting...

Give Something Back

Veterans Clinic Receives Gift from "Give Something Back"

April 18, 2012

Give Something Back’s tagline is “Good Deals, Good Deeds.”

The office supply company donates 75 percent of its revenues to non-profit organizations, and this year Give Something Back (GSB...

Immigration Panel

Immigration Lawyers Talk About Their Field of Practice at ILS Event

April 17, 2012

By Adrianna Maldonado

On April 12, the Immigration Law Society, along with the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), held a career panel. The panelists included Diana...

PILF Auction

Another Successful PILF Annual “Silent Auction Extraordinaire”

April 17, 2012

PILF’s Annual “Silent Auction Extraordinaire”  was a success once again this year.

The Public Interest Law Foundation event, held on the second floor foyer Friday, April 13, drew a great...

Paradise Plundered

Paradise Plundered Authors Speak at TJSL

April 12, 2012

An event held at Thomas Jefferson School of Law on April 10 was something like a town hall meeting - it was presented by TJSL’s Center for Law and Social Justice and the Center on Policy...

Swinging Hollywood

Swinging Hollywood Event a Hit

April 11, 2012

By Lindsey-Shannon Lee Students, professors and area attorneys came together on Saturday, April 7 to attend the wildly successful “Hollywood Swinging: Film & Television Creators...

Co-Curricular Reception

TJSL's Student Organization Leaders Honored

April 10, 2012

“Your participation in these teams and organizations is what law school is all about,” Dean Rudy Hasl told the group assembled for the Co-Curricular Reception on April 9. “You develop tremendous...

US and Torture

Professor Cohn's United States and Torture Released in Paperback

April 10, 2012

Professor Cohn's widely praised book, The United States and Torture (NYU Press) has just come out in paperback. She is the editor and co-author of a collection of chapters on U.S....

Bike Rally

TJSL Student Organizes Bicycle Rally at City Hall

April 9, 2012

On April 4, there was a bicycle rally during the evening rush hour to call attention to bicycle safety issues after the recent death of a cyclist. rally organizer, TJSL student Timur Ender, wrote...

Stand Your Ground

Stand Your Ground Panel a Show of Solidarity at TJSL

April 5, 2012

By Elisabeth Donovan, 3L

Hoodies stood out as the uniform of the day at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law Stand Your Ground Panel, which was held in a packed room on April 4, in...

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