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William Slomanson
Professor of Law
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
2121 San Diego Ave.
Law Library Bldg, Third Floor
San Diego, CA 92110
(619) 297-9700 x6904
bills@tjsl.edu
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Education:
- LL.M., Columbia University
- J.D., California Western
- B.A., University of Pittsburgh
Bio:
Professor Slomanson was an attorney for a Los Angeles insurance defense firm before joining the Thomas Jefferson School of Law faculty. Prior to law school, Professor Slomanson served in the Navy and received the Navy Achievement Medal. In 1990, Professor Slomanson was appointed to serve as judge on a panel of the Provisional District World Court with two other judges from Warsaw and Moscow. In 1992, he was elected editor of the American Society of International Law's section on the United Nations Decade of International Law, and was elected chair of the section in April, 1995. In 1993, he lectured on the teaching of International Law to the United Nations Sixth Committee (legal) at the U.N. in New York. In 1997, he taught the school's first paperless course, based on his web page and motions submitted via e-mail.
In 1999, he was appointed to the California Law Revision Commission's Civil Procedure Panel of Experts. In Summer 2002, he began teaching in Kosovo each summer, where he is now a Visiting Professor at the Pristina University. Professor Slomanson is listed in the Directory of American Scholars, Who's Who in American Law and Who's Who in American Education. He has published extensively in the fields of Civil Procedure and International Law, having written eight books for West Publishing Company.
Recent Scholarship:
Member, Editorial Board (2004-present, MISKOLC J. INT'L LAW (Hungary)(published online, http://www.uni-miskolc.hy/~wwwdrint/mjil1.htm)
Editor (1992-present), UNITED NATIONS 21 (FORMERLY UNITED NATIONS DECADE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW) NEWSLETTER (American Society of International Law) (published online, http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawlibrary/asil)
CASES AND MATERIALS ON CALIFORNIA CIVIL PROCEDURE (Thomson-West, 2d ed., 2005) (with Instructor’s Manual) (with David I. Levine, C. Keith Wingate & Rochelle Wirshup)(with online supplements, http://home.att.net/~slomansonb/CalCivPro.html)
FUNDAMENTAL PERSPECTIVES ON INTERNATIONAL LAW (Thomson-West, 4th ed. 2003) (with Instructor’s Manual) (with online supplements, http://home.att.net/~slomansonb/ ilupdate.html and http://home.att.net/~slomansonb/ txtcsesite.html)(forthcoming Albanian translation)
Historical Development of Arbitration and Adjudication, in FUNDAMENTAL PERSPECTIVES ON INTERNATIONAL LAW 384 (Thomson-West, 4th ed. 2003) reprinted in L'HISTOIRE EN DROIT INTERNATIONAL 277 (Peter Kovacs, ed. Univ. Miskolc Press, 2004)
Fundamental Perspectives on International Law (Boston: West Group, 3d ed. 1999) (with Instructor’s Manual)
State Civil Procedure Elective Plea, 54 J. LEGAL EDUC. 235 (2004)
Legal Scholarship Blueprint, 50 J. Legal Educ. 431 (2000)
Electronic Lawyering and the Academy, 48 J. LEGAL EDUC. 216 (1998)
Fundamental Perspectives On International Law and Instructor's Manual (2d ed.) (St. Paul, MN: West, 1995)
Right to War?, 1 MOSCOW J. INT'L L. 5 (English-language version 1995) (co-authors: Adam Lopatka, Chief Judge, Polish Supreme Court; Yuri Kolosov, Chair, Int'l Law Dept., State Inst. of Int'l Relations, Moscow)
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