Chapman University School of Law Professor Timothy Canova wrote an article entitled “Financial Market Failure as a Crisis in the Rule of Law: From Market Fundamentalism to a New Keynesian Regulatory Model” for the Harvard Law & Policy Review. The article examines, “the financial panic of 2008 in historical context by analyzing the institutional and
Chapman University School of Law Professor Ronald Rotunda wrote an op-ed piece in the Washington Post, entitled “An Unconstitutional Nobel,” which questions the constitutionality of President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize. Professor Rotunda argues that it is unconstitutional for the President to accept the award and donate his prize money to charity. Professor Rotunda believes President
Chapman Law Professor Mario Mainero, in coordination with Nik Daftary of County Counsel, co-drafted legislation (SB 752), which permits Orange County employees a new lower tier for their defined benefit pension plan. If county employees choose to “opt down” to the lower tier, the economic benefit is greater take-home pay for employees since their employee
In an article in the San Francisco Examiner entitled “Will 2010 voters recall cloture vote? Not if GOP can help it,” Professor Hugh Hewitt discusses his concerns over the GOP’s inability to explain to voters the seriousness of the Senate’s possible cloture vote on upcoming health care legislation. A cloture vote places a time limit
On October 8, 2009, Professor Michael Bazyler will lecture on “Profiting from the Holocaust: The Legal Battle for Restitution in America’s Courts” before the Leonard M. Friedman Bar Association.
Professors Kyndra and Ronald Rotunda attended the Iraq Star Benefit on October 4 in Los Angeles. Iraq Star is a non-profit organization that provides reconstructive surgery to service members who have sustained war injuries. More than 40,000 men and women have returned wounded from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Although the army provides prosthetic limbs and
In honor of the inauguration of its new LL.M. degree programs, the Chapman University School of Law and the Economic Science Institute (ESI) has created the Vernon L. Smith LL.M. Fellowship in Law & Economics for 2010-11. The Fellowship is designed to encourage the award winner to pursue study and research in law, economics, business and
Chapman University School of Law will be participating in the Barnard-Columbia Law Day Panel and Fair on October 8, 2009. The panel and fair will discuss the law school admissions process, law school curriculum, and how the current economic downturn may affect the legal profession. Learn more…