On Tuesday, April 1, 2014 the Fowler School of Law’s Muslim Law Students Association (MuLSA) hosted the “Origins of Islamic Law and its Modern Day Implications” panel. The speakers included Shaykh Jamaal Diwan and Muslema Purmul, two young Muslim scholars raised in America who studied Arabic and Islamic Studies in Egypt for seven years. This
Four Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law students have been selected to intern this summer at human rights and legal non-governmental organizations (NGO) in Cambodia. The students are Anna Caludac (JD ’16) , Elaine Pearl Ponce Dick (JD ’16) , Chanel Kim (JD ’16) and Hamza Siddiqui (JD ’15) . They are all
Candace Queathem (JD ’14) has been selected as a Top 10 finalist in the BARBRI Public Interest Contest to win a paid position with the Save the Children organization and a complimentary bar prep program. What you can do to help: Help Candace Queathem win her dream job by voting for her video. Incentive: one
Students from the Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law Mediation Clinic traveled to Chicago, Illinois on March 5-8, 2014 for the InterNational Academy of Dispute Resolution’s 13th Annual International Law School Mediation Tournament. The tournament consisted of 52 teams from around the world, including teams from Germany, Ukraine, Russia, Australia, Lithuania, the United
“This is my element. I’ve been in journalism since I was 15,” said Madiha Shahabuddin, the newly elected editor-in-chief of the Chapman Law Review . She was the editor-in-chief of the student-run magazine Alkalmia (meaning “the word” in Arabic) at the University of California, Irvine as well as the Walnut High School newspaper The Hoofprint
The Fifth Annual National Moot Court Competition was held February 7-8, 2014 at the Historic Embassy Suites in Downtown Charleston, South Carolina. The event was hosted by Charleston School of Law. Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law was represented by two teams at the completion, Katherine Currie-Diamond (JD ’14) and Arthur Arutyunyants
The 19th Annual National Juvenile Law Moot Court Competition was held on February 7 – 8, 2014 at Whittier Law School. Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law was represented at this event by two teams from the Appellate Moot Court Board . The first team included Minhquan Nguyen (JD ’14) and Benjamin Bertch (JD
While the typical law school student organization may feature a single guest speaker over a lunch hour, three members of the Fowler School of Law Sports and Entertainment Law Society have coordinated an all-day sports law symposium with over 15 heavy hitter industry speakers. Evan Brennan (J.D. ’15), Jack Anderson (J.D. ’15) and Jason Hirschhorn
Before coming to Chapman University Fowler School of Law, Shaun Sanders was a freelance contractor. He would take on a variety of jobs from marketing and design to computer repair. Being a freelance contractor is actually how he came to know Alexis Ohanian, the cofounder of Reddit. For the past several years Shaun has been
Chapman third year law student, Jessi Castro, was selected to be one of five finalists contending for the first-ever EB-5 Visa Awareness Scholarship. Finalists were members of their schools’ immigration law associations, asked to research and write on the EB-5 visa to promote awareness of this important program. Participants had the opportunity to engage in dialogue with leading attorneys