Chapman Law students Katrina Jaffe, a second-year student, and Julie Anne Ines, a first-year student, have been offered summer internships with the Open Society Justice Initiative in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Jaffe will be working primarily on issues relating to the Khmer Rouge tribunal, and Ines will be working on a media rights project. They are
Chapman Law third-year student Habib Hanna had his article on IRC 104(a)(2) “Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: The Disparate Treatment of Similarly Situated Taxpayers Under the Personal Injury Income Tax Exclusion” published in the new edition of the Chapman Law Review, and highlighted in the TaxProf Blog. Read the TaxProf Blog entry here.
The Chapman Entertainment Law clinic is credited in the film “Below the Beltway,” which will premiere at the 2010 Newport Beach Film Festival. Christian McGuigan, a third-year student who worked in the clinic last summer, is also credited in the film as an associate producer. The film festival runs April 22-29. Find out more about
First-year student Branigan Robertson, who won Access Group’s $10,000 “My Inspiration” scholarship contest last year, was spotlighted in a recent issue of the ABA’s student magazine. “Robertson is not the cutthroat law student in the Paper Chase, according to his friends. ‘Quite the opposite, actually,’ says first-year student and classmate Erik Beck. ‘I remember expressing
Orange County Register columnist and Chapman Law first-year student Frank Mickadeit covered the recent debate between former Chapman Law visiting professor John Yoo and former Congressman Bob Barr about the limits of presidential power hosted by the law school’s Federalist Society. “Knew something was up when more Chapman cops than I knew were on the
Chapman Law’s ADR team, comprised of Lisa Fiance, Aaron Goben, and Kyndell Paine, won first place at the National Mediation Competition in Liverpool, England. Kyndell took the second place individual mediator award and Aaron took the third place individual award. This was the first UK National Mediation Competition with three US teams (Lewis University, Illinois; Drake School of
A documentary film co-created by Chapman 2L student Roxana Amini was screened at a special event entitled “Destination Africa,” held at the Dodge School of Film and Media Arts on November 18, 2009. The film was one of three short documentary movies created by film/law/humanities students during a trip to Cameroon in the summer of 2009,
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…
An Orange County Register article on October 8, 2009 reported on Chapman law students working to get Chapman alumnus Emmett Ashford recognized in the national Baseball Hall of Fame. Mr. Ashford played baseball for Chapman in the 1940s and was the first black umpire in the major leagues. University President Jim Doti, Adrienne Bratton (Emmett
The Journal of Criminal Justice’s symposium on “Specialty Courts in Criminal Justice: Challenges and Opportunities” was the subject of a Los Angeles Daily Journal article entitled, “All Pros, No Cons for Innovative Specialty Courts at Symposium.” The symposium explored the unique challenges and opportunities of “specialty courts” such as drug courts, DUI courts, mental health