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
Organized by a coalition of Fowler School of Law student organization leaders, on February 12, 2015, Chapman University’s Fowler School Law hosted nearly one dozen presidents from Orange County’s affiliate bar associations to discuss the status of diversity in the legal community. A packed room of over 75 students, attorneys, and members of the community
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