For a student who entered law school with some doubts about her ability to excel, Amanda Thyden (JD ’17) far exceeded her expectations. During her three years at Fowler School of Law, Thyden served as Editor-in-Chief of the Chapman Law Review, was a law school ambassador, participated in Chapman’s Mediation Clinic, and was a member
When Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law alumnus Christopher Navarro (LL.M. ’11) began law school in North Carolina, he had no idea that entertainment law was a field of choice. He only knew that his passion for music would get him into the music industry. So when he learned about Chapman University Dale
This month, Chapman University Fowler School of Law students in the Bette and Wylie Aitken Family Protection Clinic, along with Professor Julie Marzouk, conducted a legal training for more than 60 professionals to explain the means by which immigrant victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking can obtain lawful immigration status. The audience
On Wednesday, January 11, 2017, Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law’s Constitutional Jurisprudence Clinic (CJC) will host its second boot camp session for 2L and 3L students. The four-hour event, which is free to all eligible students, is designed for those looking to learn more about pursuing careers in Constitutional advocacy. Students will
Students looking to learn more about pursuing careers in Constitutional advocacy are invited to join the Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law Constitutional Jurisprudence Clinic (CJC) this summer for a one-day boot camp on August 20. The program is free for all Fowler School of Law 2L and 3L students, and required for students
Elaine Dick (’16) learned quickly that the opportunity to develop the career she wanted would be found in the Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law clinics. During her time at the law school, she spent three semesters immersed in the Bette and Wylie Aitken Family Protection Clinic and the Alona Cortese Elder Law Center as
While many students were making their way through midterms and dreaming of tropical vacations or carefully building their Netflix queues the week before spring break, Nathan Grosch (JD ’16) and Sean Cruz (JD ’17) were putting their education to an entirely different kind of test. Cruz and Grosch had instead taken their midterms early
Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law Professor Julie Marzouk’s article “ Ethical and Effective Representation of Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors in Domestic Violence-Based Asylum Cases ” was recently published in the Clinical Law Review (Volume 22, Number 2). From the abstract: In the last two years more than 100,000 immigrant minors have flooded
The Internal Revenue Service announced on Friday that it has given a $100,000 grant through its Low Income Taxpayers Clinic (LITC) program to the Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law Tax Law Clinic for its work supporting low income taxpayers. Through the LITC program, the IRS awards up to $100,000
Property rights, free speech, union dues, affirmative action, immigration and the contraception mandate within the Affordable Care Act all add up to a very busy semester for the students and professors in the Constitutional Jurisprudence Clinic (CJC) here at Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law. For the last 15 years Chapman’s CJC has