On March 13, 2008, the School of Law’s Center for Global Trade and Development hosted its annual symposium at Kennedy Hall. Entitled “From Auschwitz to Darfur: The Genocide Convention at Sixty,” the symposium marked the 60th anniversary of the Genocide Convention, one of the foundational instruments of international law and human rights. Learn more…
On February 20, the NeXus editorial board, under the faculty supervision of Professor Hugh Hewitt, held a panel on immigration, which brought to campus several prominent scholars, including Bill Piatt, former Dean of St. Mary’s University Law School, and University of Florida Law Professor Robert Moffat. Our own Professor Marisa Cianciarulo rounded out the panel
On February 19, Chapman hosted a talk by Edward J. McCaffery, Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law and Professor of Law,Economics and Political Science at University of Southern California Gould School of Law and Visiting Professor of Law and Economics, California Institute of Technology. Professor McCaffery’s talk was entitled “A Unified Theory of Tax
On February 15-16, Chapman Law’s Center for Land Resources partnered with Syracuse College of Law’s Center for Property, Citizenship and Social Entrepenuerism for a workshop of papers in progress. Learn more…
On February 8, the Chapman Law Review hosted The 10th Annual Chapman Law Review Symposium, “Publicity Rights in Bytes.” The much-anticipated event lived up to its advance billing and was a great success. Learn more…
The Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel held its official hearings at the School of Law for the second straight year. Learn more…
On January 25, the School of Law hosted the 9th Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (“BAP”) for official hearings in the school’s Appellate Courtroom. Learn more…
On January 24, Chapman hosted the American Board of Trial Advocate’s “Masters in Trial” Program. Learn more…
Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith joins Chapman law faculty. Learn more…
The Law Library announced that it has put on display a signed copy of the memoir, My Grandfather’s Son, by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. During Justice Thomas’ visit this month, he signed a copy of his work. The framed book now hangs on the staircase landing, just inside the law library entrance. The