A new initiative to create sustainable floating cities, or “seasteading” communities, is one step closer to reality thanks in part to Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law Professor Tom W. Bell. Professor Bell has been working with the nonprofit organization behind the project, The Seasteading Institute, providing legal advice on creating the new
Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law Professor Bobby Dexter’s article “The Hate Exclusion: Moral Tax Equity for Damages Received on Account of Race, Sex, or Sexual Orientation Discrimination” was published in Volume 13, Issue 2 of the Pittsburgh Tax Review. From the abstract: Scholars on both sides of the reparations literature divide commonly
Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law Professor Hugh Hewitt’s newest book The Fourth Way: The Conservative Playbook for a Lasting GOP Majority was recently published by Simon & Schuster publishing. From the publisher’s description: “From ‘the nearly professorial power-baron of conservative media’ (Bloomberg), a handbook for how a united GOP government can solve
Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law’s faculty made a strong showing this month at the Association of American Law School’s (AALS) annual meeting in San Francisco. The meeting brought together thousands of law faculty, deans, other legal scholars, and administrators to discuss critical legal issues and further the organization’s mission to uphold and
Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law Professor Michael Bazyler’s book Holocaust, Genocide, and the Law: A Quest for Justice in a Post-Holocaust World has received top honors by the Jewish Book Council, winning the prestigious National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category. “Professor Bazyler is internationally-known as a legal expert in the
Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law Professor Ronald Rotunda recently published Либерализм как слово и символ : борьба за либеральный бренд в США [The Politics of Language: Liberalism as Word and Symbol] (Социум, 2016) in Russia. The book was originally published by the University of Iowa Press in 1986. From the Russian publisher’s description
Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law welcomed Jane Stromseth, Georgetown University Law Center Professor of Law, as a guest commenter for a special presentation of the Chapman Dialogue Lecture Series on November 10. The presentation focused on the book Culture in Law and Development: Nurturing Positive Change (Oxford Univ. Press 2016), the latest
Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law Professor Denis Binder’s article “The Increasing Application of Criminal Law in Disasters and Tragedies: A Global Phenomenon” was recently published in Volume 38, Number 313 of the Western New England Law Review. From the abstract: Prosecutors have become aggressive in recent years in bringing criminal prosecutions of
Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law Professor Sam Ernst’s article “Why Patent Exhaustion Should Liberate Products (and Not Just People)” was recently published in Volume 93, Number 4 of the Denver Law Review. From the abstract: Patent exhaustion is a doctrine that excuses infringement where the patent holder has either authorized the sale
Florida State University College of Law Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and William & Catherine VanDercreek Professor Manuel A. Utset, Jr. recently presented “Financial Regulation: A Behavioral Law & Economics Perspective” at the latest installment of the Chapman Dialogue Lecture Series. Dean Utset’s lecture looked at the fragility of financial institutions and markets, and the