On March 18, 2015, Chapman University Fowler School of Law Professor Kathy Z. Heller discussed The Legal Process for Independent Filmmakers at a Screen Actor’s Guild Foundation event at SAG’s Los Angeles studio. Speaking to an audience of actors, independent film producers, and directors, the presentation was broadcast live to the entire SAG membership and is
On Tuesday, March 24, 2015, Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law welcomed Nestor Davidson , the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law. Dean Davidson presented a thought-provoking discussion, The Administrative City-State: Administrative Law and Local Governance as the featured guest for our Chapman Dialogue
You’ve heard of Open Source technology. Legal scholar and innovator Chapman University Fowler School of Law Professor Tom W. Bell asks why laws — our legal operating systems — can’t be thought of in the same way. Professor Bell’s video discussion, ” Forget Politicians: How to Crowdsouce Better Laws ,” is featured on Watch the
Chapman University Fowler School of Law Professor Rotunda’s reference text, Legal Ethics – The Lawyer’s Deskbook on Professional Responsibility (co-authored with John S. Dzienkowski) was cited in Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion for the U.S. Supreme Court on February 25, 2015 in North Carolina State Bd. of Dental Examiners v. F.T.C. , 135 S.Ct. 1101,
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