Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law’s Alona Cortese Elder Law Center was recently the recipient of a $10,000 donation from the Shady Canyon Golf Club Charitable Foundation. The donation will help fund the day-to-day activities of the center, which provides free legal services to low-income Southern California seniors while also providing law students
Property rights, free speech, union dues, affirmative action, immigration and the contraception mandate within the Affordable Care Act all add up to a very busy semester for the students and professors in the Constitutional Jurisprudence Clinic (CJC) here at Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law. For the last 15 years Chapman’s CJC has
Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law’s Alona Cortese Elder Law Center was featured in The Orange County Register on Monday, November 16, in an article entitled “Chapman’s Alona Cortese Elder Law Center provides free legal services to seniors.” The Center takes on issues involving elder abuse, health care, government benefits and senior housing,
On October 7, 2015, Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law Professor Julie Marzouk led a press conference officially launching the Voluntades of O.C. Coalition. Voluntades of O.C. is a coalition of legal service providers, law enforcement agencies, social service providers and the Mexican Consulate that have come together to address the significant problem
Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law Associate Professor and Director of Mediation Clinic David Dowling added a new group of students to his roster last month. The clinical professor joined 15 undergraduate law students from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine for a two-hour class session via Skype on
Twelve Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law students gained hands-on business law experience on Friday, April 24 during a pro bono small business clinic hosted on the Fowler Law campus and organized by The Public Law Center, the Association of Corporate Counsel and the local firm of Snell & Wilmer. The event
On Saturday, March 28, 2015, nearly 350 friends of the Fowler School of Law gathered in Chapman University’s lovely Attallah Piazza to celebrate the law school’s 20th anniversary. The law school’s namesake and University Trustee Dale E. Fowler and his wife Ann and Dean Emeritus Parham Williams and his wife Polly were among the many
The Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law Constitutional Jurisprudence Clinic successfully represented the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) in its lawsuit against The United States of America, Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The lawsuit was filed for the illegal disclosure of NOM’s tax return donor information. After the ruling in the United States District
Professor Marisa Cianciarulo is featured in the newly released video profile, where she discusses what brought her into scholarly work in immigration law. “I saw firsthand how our refugee laws didn’t always provide the needed protection,” she explains. Her goal is to improve the law and to enhance people’s understanding of immigration law in general. Professor
Two students, Jacqueline Gonzalez Valle (JD ’14) and Madiha Shahabuddin (JD ’15), in the Bette and Wylie Aitken Family Violence Clinic successfully obtained immigration status for a survivor of domestic violence. The client was brought to this country as a small child and suffered years of physical and emotional abuse by her United States Citizen husband. Supervising Professor Julie Marzouk