The Riverside County Superior Court recently announced a new monthly program aimed to “reduce the court’s civic case backlog and increase access to justice for civil litigants everywhere.” The program, called “PJ Settlement Day”, acts as a “last chance” day-of-trial mediation program in which Presiding Judge Sherrill Ellsworth will help settle civil cases before they
Many thanks to all the student organization representatives, alumni, faculty, and administrators who helped make this year’s a huge success. Dressed in Halloween attire, more than 60 members of the law school community treated the children at Orangewood to a wide variety of activities including juggling, pumpkin bowling, pin the spider on the web, pumpkin
The Orange County Weekly featured Chapman Law student George Hartline in an article entitled, “George Hartline Goes from South to South OC,” about Hartline’s music, work in real estate, and ambitions in school. Hartline was described as “an Orange-by-way-of-Alabama singer/songwriter,” and “a man on the grind.” The O.C. Weekly wrote: “By night, we know him
Congratulations to 3L Blair Russell whose paper was one of three winners in IDEA®: The Intellectual Property Law Review’s Student Intellectual Property Writing Competition. Read Blair’s paper, “Economics of Process Methods: Intellectual Property Movements and Guideposts for Information Age Patents.”
Congratulations to Chapman Tax Law Certificate graduate, Erica Brady, who’s article, “Opinion Point: Are Criminal Fines “Collected Proceeds”?” was published in the ABA Journal this summer. Read about Erica’s article.
Veterans Law Review has accepted Chapman 3L Allison Lin’s Comment entitled, “WARNING: Enlisting in the Military May be Hazardous to Your Health: An Examination of Appropriate Solutions for Veterans Poisoned by Contaminated Water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune.” Read Allison’s Comment when it is published in January 2012.
Chapman’s Working with Filmmakers Clinic will be credited in “Mamitas,” a feature film to be presented at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June. “Mamitas” is beautifully shot coming-of-age story that revolves around a young Latino player whose budding relationship with a bookish tomboy propels him to find out who he really is. It is
Congratulations to Spencer Wampole and Harrison Brown, winners of the 2011 Rutan & Tucker 1L Golden Gavel Competition for excellence in appellate oral argument.
Jeffrey Kuhns, a 2012 Chapman candidate for an LLM in Taxation, has received the top prize in a writing competition. Mr. Kuhns’ piece on “The Application of the Death on the High Seas Act (DOHSA) to Commercial Space Flight Accidents” was the winning article in the Admiralty & Maritime Law Committee’s annual law student writing
Congratulations to 3L Josh Flynn-Brown whose paper entitled “Constitutional Implications of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Does the Individual Mandate and Penalty Provision Pass Constitutional Muster?” has been accepted for publication by the Center for Judicial Process at Albany Law School.