Two Chapman students, Andrew Gahan and Minhquan Nguyen, have won the Golden Quill Award in the Rutan & Tucker Golden Quill Competition. This Legal Research and Writing competition is open to all 1L students and is held each spring semester. Students must submit legal briefs on behalf of a defendant or plaintiff. Andrew wrote the top
The ABA Journal has published an article that shines an academic spotlight on the scholarly work of Chapman Law. The article, discussing a new University of St. Thomas report, identified Chapman as one of three newer law schools accredited within the past two decades that “have already made a scholarly impact that dramatically outpaces their present academic reputations.”
Chapman class of 2010 alumni were featured on the cover of July’s Orange County Lawyer magazine for their work in the Orange County Bar Association Young Lawyers Division. Alumnae Sarah Nowels, who is currently working for Amezcua-Moll & Associates, serves as Education Chair. Alumnae Jessica Hawari Morner is the Community Outreach Chair, and has organized
Chapman University School of Law is honored to be amongst select law schools, including Harvard and Stanford University, which were invited to participate in the Public Private Partnership for Justice Reform in connection with the American University of Afghanistan. Dean Campbell and Chapman University’s Chancellor Daniele C. Struppa have created a program to provide full-tuition
Professor Eastman will be discussing the constitutionality of the Obama Administration’s health-care reform initiatives at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library at 7PM on Wednesday, June 13. Professor Hewitt will be moderating the discussion between Professor Eastman and Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of UCI. Click here for more information.
The Orange County Bar Association magazine, OC Lawyer, featured the Chapman University School of Law’s OC Bar Association Specialty Section Day, which allowed students to ask questions and interact with attorney representing the various sections within the OC Bar Association. OC Bar Association members can access the most recent magazine online.
Chapman Law is pleased to report the success of the “100% Campaign,” in which it reached its goal of receiving a donation from each of the 28 members of the Chapman Law Alumni Advisory Board. The current board had a wide range of giving options, choosing to give almost exclusively to the Amicus Fund or
The Chapman Law Working With Filmmakers Clinic students worked last fall on the film “Dead Man’s Burden,” which has been selected for the 2012 Los Angeles Film Festival. “Dead Man’s Burden” is a Western, set in the aftermath of the Civil War, and tells the story of siblings who are reunited, but torn between their
Before members of the law school’s Class of 2012 began the procession to their graduation ceremony, they paused to recognize a special classmate who could not attend. First Lieutenant Rebecca Kipper, a member of the California Army’s National Guard, was called to military duty in February, just months before she would have completed her final
Chapman University School of Law has been named one of ten finalists for the 2012 Law School Admissions Council (LSAC) Diversity Matters Award. The award is given to schools that are seriously committed to diversity, and demonstrate their commitment by designing programming for high school students and college students from racial and ethnic groups underrepresented