The 2010 Chapman Law Review symposium “Drug War Madness: Policies, Borders, and Corruption” received well-deserved kudos from the ImmigrationProf Blog. “The conference brought together an impressive group of speakers with a variety of diverse insights on drugs, borders, and national security,” said Kevin Johnson, the Dean of U.C. Davis’s School of Law and blog author.
In celebration of the holidays, Chapman University School of Law Professor Hugh Hewitt posted a list of suggested charities to donate to this season. Read more…
Chapman University School of Law recently received praise from retired judge of the Orange County Superior Court James Gray in the Daily Pilot. He discussed Chapman’s Military Personnel Law Center (MPLC) & AMVETS Legal Clinic and the school’s impressive 81% passage rate of the California Bar Examination. Read more…
Chapman Law graduates passed the July 2009 California Bar Exam at a record 81% rate, continuing a steep 5-year upward trend in the pass-rate percentage. Learn more…
Chapman University School of Law was ranked #19 in the country by Paul Charon, a highly respected tax professor who writes one of the most widely-read law school blogs in the country. Paul Charon’s creates his own ranking based on the most academic components of the Princeton Review data: academic experience, admissions selectivity, career preparation,
Professors Kyndra and Ronald Rotunda attended the Iraq Star Benefit on October 4 in Los Angeles. Iraq Star is a non-profit organization that provides reconstructive surgery to service members who have sustained war injuries. More than 40,000 men and women have returned wounded from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Although the army provides prosthetic limbs and
In honor of the inauguration of its new LL.M. degree programs, the Chapman University School of Law and the Economic Science Institute (ESI) has created the Vernon L. Smith LL.M. Fellowship in Law & Economics for 2010-11. The Fellowship is designed to encourage the award winner to pursue study and research in law, economics, business and
Chapman University School of Law will be participating in the Barnard-Columbia Law Day Panel and Fair on October 8, 2009. The panel and fair will discuss the law school admissions process, law school curriculum, and how the current economic downturn may affect the legal profession. Learn more…
Chapman’s Animal Law Society raised $1,140 for the Orange County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (OCSPCA) through a pet photo contest. For the contest, the Society encouraged members to bring in photos of their pet and the Chapman community voted on which pet should be the Law Society’s mascot. A vote was
The Orange County Register published an article, “Chapman v. UCI: A Case to Be Made,” on September 27, 2009, in which the author pondered whether Chapman and UCI law schools are the next USC and UCLA? Read article…