Bri Denbo (JD ’24) and Sandra Aguilar (JD ’24) have been named the recipients of the 2022 Rutan & Tucker Golden Quill award. Presented annually, the award recognizes the top briefs written by first-year students at Chapman University Fowler School of Law in connection with their Legal Analysis, Writing, and Research II course. Denbo, representing
Chapman University Fowler School of Law Professor Denis Binder was recently elected a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation (ABF), an independent, nonprofit research institute focused on the empirical and interdisciplinary study of law. According to the American Bar Foundation’s website, ABF Fellows comprise a “global honorary society” of law practitioners, instructors, and scholars whose
Two teams from the Chapman University Fowler School of Law competed in the regional American Bar Association (ABA) Client Counseling Competition, held virtually February 11-12, with one pair of students finishing on top. Both Fowler School of Law teams—Tristan Curnow and Alicia Light, and Elizabeth Kim and Kelly Kolar—advanced to the semifinals of the competition,
At the 2022 Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting, several members of the Chapman University Fowler School of Law’s faculty were elected to join the leadership of their respective AALS sections: Professor Mario Mainero, Executive Director of Bar Preparation and Academic Achievement, was elected chair of the Section on Litigation. Legal Research and
The annual Chapman Law Review Symposium, held every spring since 1999, is scheduled to return to the Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law on Friday, January 28, 2022, featuring a keynote address by Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of UC Berkeley School of Law. This year’s symposium, titled “A Future-Proof Constitution: Exploring the Effects of
Professor Jenny Carey has been appointed Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Chapman University Fowler School of Law, stepping into the role previously held by recently named Interim Dean Marisa Cianciarulo. “I am thrilled that Professor Carey has accepted this position,” said Cianciarulo. “She has served with distinction at the Fowler School of Law
Competing against 48 teams from around the world, students from Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law earned several Gold and Bronze medals at the online International Mediation Singapore competition (ISMG 2021), held across the weekends of October 22-24 and October 30-31. The Fowler School of Law sent two teams to the virtual competition, with Elijah
Professor Marisa Cianciarulo has been appointed to the position of interim dean of the Chapman University Fowler School of Law, effective December 1. Dean Cianciarulo, who joined Chapman in 2006 as a member of the faculty and is the founding director of the Bette and Wylie Aitken Family Protection Clinic, has served as the law
The Chapman University Fowler School of Law’s student-run Diversity and Social Justice Forum will hold its 5th annual symposium via Zoom on Friday, October 29 from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., featuring a keynote address by California Supreme Court Associate Justice Goodwin Liu. This year’s symposium will examine the implications of the social reckoning that
Effective Dec. 1, 2021, Matt Parlow, dean of the Fowler School of Law and Donald P. Kennedy Chair in Law, will serve as Chapman University’s new executive vice president and chief advancement officer. Parlow served as a professor at the Fowler School of Law from 2005 to 2008, then as associate dean at Marquette University