3L student Jack Styskal and the Alona Cortese Elder Law Center achieved a great result on behalf of a client during the week of January 28. The center’s client obtained a conservatorship over her adult, developmentally challenged daughter, allowing the client to determine medical care and housing arrangements for her daughter. Jack prepared the conservatorship
Assistant Dean of Admissions Tracy Simmons has been named Chair elect for the AALS Section on Pre-Legal Education and Admissions to Law School.
On January 25, the School of Law hosted the 9th Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (“BAP”) for official hearings in the school’s Appellate Courtroom. Learn more…
On January 24, Chapman hosted the American Board of Trial Advocate’s “Masters in Trial” Program. Learn more…
Professor Hugh Hewitt was featured in the January 2008 issue in California Lawyer magazine. Read article…
Professor Henry Noyes’ most recent article “Good Cause Is Bad Medicine For the New E-Discovery Rules” was published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology in December 2007. It may be downloaded here.
Professor John Hall’s op-ed piece “Porn Industry’s Lack of Workplace Protection Puts Actors at Risk” was published in the January 8, 2008 issue of The Los Angeles Daily Journal.
At the annual AALS Meeting in New York City, Dean John Eastman was named to the Special Committee to Review Scholarly Papers. Professor Kurt Eggert was voted onto the Executive Committee of the Clinical Legal Education Section of the AALS and was also was appointed as a member to the AALS Executive Committee of the Section on
Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith joins Chapman law faculty. Learn more…
Professor Kurt Eggert was quoted in the December 30, 2007 edition of the Orange County Register, “How subprime lending all started in O.C.” (Read article…) Professor Eggert was also quoted in the December 30, 2007 edition of the Kansas City Star, “American dreams built on a shaky foundation of subprime loans.” (Read article…)