Associate Dean Donald Kochan’s recent article ” Bubbles (or, Some Reflections on the Basic Laws of Human Relations) ” was published in the Fordham Environmental Law Review (Volume 26, Number 2, Page 133, Winter 2015). Excerpt from the abstract: Very few of us want to live in the absolute isolation of a “bubble.” Most
On Monday, February 16, 2015, Chapman University’s Fish Interfaith Center, and the university’s Muslim Students Association (MSA) and Muslim Law Students Association (MuLSA), hosted a candlelight vigil in memory of the three American Muslim individuals who were killed near the University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill. Deah Barakat (23), a dental student at UNC-Chapel
On Monday, February 2, 2015, Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law welcomed Tom Ginsburg , Deputy Dean, Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago Law School. Dean Ginsburg presented his talk, Were the Framers Right about Constitutional Design?
At the forefront – and on multiple sides – of the legal debates in the recent news over immigration law and policy, observers will find the scholarly work and legal analyses of several Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law professors. We highlight below some of the most recent legal opinions of these scholars
In 2011, Professor Samuel Ernst first co-authored (with The Honorable Timothy B. Dyk of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit) the Chapter on Patents in the leading treatise BUSINESS AND COMMERCIAL LITIGATION IN FEDERAL COURTS (now in its third edition). For the past three years, Professor Ernst and Judge Dyk have completed
Professor Samuel Ernst’s article “Patent Exhaustion for the Exhausted Defendant: Should Parties Be Able to Contract Around Exhaustion in Settling Patent Litigation?” was recently published in University of Illinois Journal of Law, Technology & Polic y (Volume 2014, Issue 2, 2014). Excerpt from the abstract: “The first sale doctrine provides that when a patent
Chapman University permits me to continue my teaching in Africa, which I have been able to do every other year for the last fourteen years. I have taught at the School of Banking and Finance in Rwanda, the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology in Rwanda, the University of Asmara in Eritrea (twice), and Ashesi
The Chapman University Fowler School of Law faculty Committee on Teaching Effectiveness and Scholarship (COTES) recently hosted two events to celebrate the publication of new books by three members of the Fowler Law faculty. On November 20, 2014, the faculty members gathered to celebrate Professor Michael Bazyler and his new book Forgotten Trials of
Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law Professor John C. Eastman was recently featured in a four-part video interview series on The American Mind with Charles R. Kesler . The series includes Dr. Eastman discussing the following topics: The Disappearing Constitution: What Should Law School Teach? Natural Law & the Conservatives
During the summer of 2014, Professor Michael J. Bazyler taught in the study abroad program “ From Nuremberg to the Hague ” (“N2H”) in Nuremberg, Germany. The program allows students to learn firsthand about the Holocaust in the Bavarian city that hosted the Nazi war crimes trials after World War II – the location considered