The ABA Student Lawyer Magazine ran an article on 3L students Jimmy Blalock, Brett Corson, Meghan O’Brien Taylor, and Arlinda Witko winning the 2008-2009 National Arbitration Competition against 13 other teams from across the country. The competition challenge was to arbitrate a case in the field of election campaign law where the teams represented both
Second year law student Tiffany Chang was featured in an Orange County Register article entitled, “Gay-marriage issue both scholarly, personal.” The article discusses the impact of Proposition 8 on gay and lesbian couples. Chang said that it is difficult for people to understand what it means to be treated like a second-class citizen until they
A team of talented law and film students were selected by the Association of Media & Entertainment Counsel (AMEC) to produce a video celebrating the Fifth Anniversary of AMEC and the Counsel of the Year Awards. The proposal, which includes the team’s video about Chapman, was selected over proposals submitted by USC and UCLA. This is
Second year Chapman law students Martina Vigil and Lauren Mayfield recently appeared opposite of each other in Orange County Superior Court, representing their respective clients in a felony criminal law case. Learn more…
Chapman launched the first West Coast military law clinic. Learn more…
Chapman’s Mock Trial Board won the ABA-LSD National Arbitration Competition in San Antonio, Texas this past weekend. The student team of Jimmy Blalock, Brett Corson, Meghan O’Brien Taylor, and Arlinda Witko finished third in the preliminary rounds, advancing to the final rounds where they outscored teams from Louisiana State University and the University of Missouri—Columbia. The team was
The Los Angeles Daily Journal published two op-eds written by Chapman Law students analyzing the presidential candidates’ health care proposals. In a full page point-counterpoint piece that appeared in the October 17, 2008 issue, “A Healthy Debate” featured the opinions of 3L student Shirley Peng and 2L student Edward Reid. Peng noted that John McCain’s plan only appeals
First year law student Joe Werner was featured in a Los Angeles Times article entitled, “First-year law student finds it can be trying.” Dana Parsons interviewed Werner for an inside look at the first-year law student experience. Regarding the first few weeks of law school, Werner stated, “It’s definitely given me, even in the first
Chapman Law students had a global reach in the summer of 2008, with high impact internships that included work with the White House Counsel and CNBC London, among many others. Also, this summer, professor John Hall spearheaded a new cooperative program with Chapman’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, taking a group of film, law and humanities students
Chapman law students Sheba Saroia and Matthew Wechter were recognized as Public Interest Scholarship recipients by the California Bar Foundation on September 25, 2008 in Monterey, CA. Learn more…