Chapman Students Win Golden Gavel Competition
Congratulations to Spencer Wampole and Harrison Brown, winners of the 2011 Rutan & Tucker 1L Golden Gavel Competition for excellence in appellate oral argument.
Professor Rosenthal Debates Illegal Immigration
Professor Larry Rosenthal appeared as a guest on AirTalk on Southern California Public Radio to debate the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the 2007 Arizona law that would impose sanctions on employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants. Listen to Professor Rosenthal discuss with Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach what affect the decision will
Chapman Student Wins ABA Writing Competition
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
Dean Campbell Interviewed on Corporate Social Responsibility
On May 23, “RealClearPolitics” interviewed Dean Tom Campbell about Corporate Social Responsibility. Dean Campbell defined CSR for “RealClearPolitics” as a corporation’s sense of obligation “to do something more than to simply make a financial profit.” He went on to state that “most often that something more involves a good environmental record, or something good for
Professor Rosenthal Publishes Article on Teaching Law
Professor Rosenthal has published his latest article, entitled “Those Who Can’t, Teach: What the Legal Career of John Yoo Tells Us about Who Should Be Teaching Law,” in the Mississippi Law Journal as part of symposium about search and seizure and counterterrorism in the Mississippi Law Journal containing a wide variety of articles by nationally
Professor Steiner Publishes Article on Miranda Warnings
Professor Ron Steiner’s latest article, “The Rise and Fall of the Miranda Warnings in Popular Culture,” will be published in the Cleveland State Law Review. It follows the observation that Miranda warnings may not be as ubiquitous in popular culture as they were when the U.S. Supreme Court decided Dickerson v. United States in 2000,
Professor Canova Appeared on C-SPAN
Professor Tim Canova spoke amongst a panel of national experts on C-SPAN, on the future of the Federal Reserve and its role in shaping the U.S. economy. Watch Professor Canova on C-SPAN discuss the role of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the potential impact of the new financial regulatory law on economic and
Chapman Student Gets Paper Published
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.
Chapman Team Makes Finals in Criminal Justice Competition
A Chapman student team made the final four at the ABA Criminal Justice Trial Advocacy Competition in Chicago. In the invitation-only competition involving 22 teams from around the country, Jess Travis, Jeremy Jass, John Bishop, and Alex Khoury made a strong team.
Professor Kochan Publishes Article on Term Conclusory
Pitt Law Review will publish Professor Donald Kochan’s latest article, “While Effusive, ‘Conclusory’ is Still Quite Elusive: The Story of a Word, Iqbal, and a Perplexing Lexical Inquiry of Supreme Importance.” Looking to civil procedure for guidance, Professor Kochan’s article defines the difficult to pin down legal term “conclusory,” which has taken center stage in