First-year student Branigan Robertson, who won Access Group’s $10,000 “My Inspiration” scholarship contest last year, was spotlighted in a recent issue of the ABA’s student magazine. “Robertson is not the cutthroat law student in the Paper Chase, according to his friends. ‘Quite the opposite, actually,’ says first-year student and classmate Erik Beck. ‘I remember expressing
Professor Kyndra Rotunda has made the SSRN top 10 PSN: Administrative Controls list with 108 downloads of her paper, “A Comparative Historical Analysis of War Time Procedural Protections and Presidential Powers: From the Civil War to the War on Terror.” The article analyzes and compares procedural rules governing military trials from the American Revolution to
Professor Rosenthal has published “The New Originalism Meets the Fourteenth Amendment: Original Public Meaning and the Problem of Incorporation” in the Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues as part of a symposium sponsored by the University of San Diego’s Institute for Constitutional Originalism on the debate over whether the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates the first eight amendments
Professor Katherine Darmer will be honored with a Bridge Award at the first Gala Fundraiser and Award Show of Men Alive, Orange County’s Gay Men’s Chorus, for her role in creating the Orange County Equality Coalition and her continued legal support of the coalition as it strives to educate the community about equal rights. The
Professor Ronald Rotunda has published an op-ed in National Review Online, entitled “The Efforts to Disbar Bush Lawyers” where he comments on the Department of Justice’s decision not to prosecute those attorneys responsible for writing the “torture memos.” Read the op-ed…
Professor Kurt Eggert discussed unfair mortgage lending practices in an article featured in Southside Pride. “Lenders have an interest in painting themselves as responsible, even caring entities. … They want to cast blame for the sub-prime meltdown and make themselves seem like the victim of borrowers in order to fight off additional regulations.” Read the
Orange County Register columnist and Chapman Law first-year student Frank Mickadeit covered the recent debate between former Chapman Law visiting professor John Yoo and former Congressman Bob Barr about the limits of presidential power hosted by the law school’s Federalist Society. “Knew something was up when more Chapman cops than I knew were on the
Professor Francine Lipman was quoted in a Mission Local article discussing the increasing use of Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITIN) by undocumented workers to file their taxes. “Taxpayers who file with an ITIN do not receive social security benefits or the earned income tax credit. But they are eligible for the child tax credit, said
Chapman Law’s homepage made the Top 100 of the best law school homepages of 2009, as published by Roger V. Skalbeck, Associate Law Librarian for Electronic Resources & Services at Georgetown. Read more here … Read and download the full report here …