ORANGE, Calif. – The new U.S. News & World Report ranking of national law schools has been released, and Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law has moved up 13 positions to #127 in the “Top Schools” group, the highest tier of the national law school rankings. Fowler Law Dean Tom Campbell said of the school’s
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
Orange County-based law firm Rutan & Tucker, LLP has again committed an annual gift of $15,000 to Chapman University Fowler School of Law to support its first year oral and written advocacy competition program. With the addition of this year’s gift, Rutan’s recent contributions to the law school now total $235,000. “We hold Chapman in the
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?
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
On Monday, January 26, 2015, Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law welcomed Daniel B. Rodriguez , Dean and Harold Washington Professor of Northwestern University School of Law, and Immediate Past President of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). Dean Rodriguez presented his talk, The Law-Business-Technology Interface and its Impact on Professional Education
Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law students Anna Caludac (JD ’16) and Neusha Ghaedi (JD ’16) have been selected to participate in the Chapman University International Documentary Scholarship Program that will take place in Laos during the summer of 2015. The Chapman University International Documentary Scholarship Program is a unique interdisciplinary documentary
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
This fall, Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law celebrated the naming of the Fritzie G. Williams Lecture Hall in honor of Fritzie Williams and her continued generosity to the law school. Fritzie recently donated $1 million in support of the Fowler School of Law. Fritzie has been a supporter of
On Thursday, November 13, 2014, Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law welcomed Melanie D. Wilson, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at the University of Kansas School of Law (recently named the new dean of University of Tennessee College of Law ). Dean Wilson presented her talk, “The Moral Impediment