General News - School of LawJuly 2008 The School of Law continues to increase its standing in the Social Science Research Network's ranking of top law schools based on total downloads of faculty scholarship over the past 12 months. Chapman now stands at #30 in the SSRN rankings which puts Chapman in the company of a number of top schools. Chapman is also ranked #35 in total downloads, #26 in total downloads per author, and #18 in new downloads per author. View rankings... June 2008 Law school alumnus, Mark D. Schopper ('02), was quoted on June 11, 2008 in a Washington Post article entitled "Anti-Child-Porn Tactic Criticized: Thwarting Payments Makes Users Hard to Track, Report Says." Of note, while in law school, Mark wrote an article for the Chapman Law Review on digital currency that took on a life of its own after it became the basis of a GAO Report to Congress. It has been cited in legislative reports in five countries, and it influenced legislation in the U.S., Canada and England, while theories put forth in the article have become applicable to other Internet activities. Read story... On June 12, 2008, Chapman University announced that Tom Campbell, former Congressman and current dean and professor of business at UC Berkeley, will be the inaugural Presidential Fellow, joining the school of law for a two year distinguished visitorship. Learn more... On Tuesday June 3, 2008, Chapman's newest members of the California Bar were sworn in by Federal Bankrupcty Judge Theodor Albert and California Superior Court Judge Michael Hayes. Learn more... May 2008 The graduating Class of 2008 is honored at year-end ceremonies. Learn more and view photo slideshows... On May 21, 2008, Chapman University announced that Professor Ronald Rotunda, one of the most influential law professors in the country (Legal Ethics and Constitutional Law), will be joining the Chapman Law faculty as a Professor of Law, together with his wife, Kyndra Rotundra, an expert on military law (and former GITMO prosecutor), who will be joining as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law. Learn more... April 2008 On April 16, 2008, the School of Law reenacted the landmark case of Worcester v. Georgia (1832) at the annual Madison Lecture and Reenactment. Honorable Carlos Bea of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit presided over the court in the role of Chief Justice John Marshall. Learn more... On April 11, 2008, the Orange County Register reported on the $376,000 federal grant earmarked for Chapman's Family Violence Clinic. Read story... In just a little over a decade since it opened its doors, the School of Law has moved into the third tier of the U.S. News & World Report rankings. Learn more... The School of Law recently hosted leading scholars from Harvard and Yale as part of its Chapman Dialogues Distinguished Lecture Series, which provides a forum for discussion and debate on a wide range of subjects and from diverse philosophical perspectives. Learn more... First Year law student, Ruby Banipal, was elected as Outreach Chair for West Region of the new Ms. JD National Women Law Students' Organization. Ms. JD, a national non-profit organization, held a Leadership Summit in New York City on April 4th and 5th. The purpose of the summit was to bring together law students from around the country to form a national organization of women law students. The event was attended by approximately 100 students from over 60 law schools with representatives in attendance from over 30 states. First year law student, Ruby Banipal, represented Chapman at the Summit. The event was sponsored by Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz LLP. The event kicked off with addresses by Chief Judge Judith Kaye of the New York Court of Appeals who spoke on the challenges that still exist for women in the legal profession and Lynn Hecht Schafren who spoke on how far women lawyers have come to date. Students participated in a networking luncheon led by Axiom Legal and the event closed with inspiring remarks by Dahlia Lithwick, a senior editor and legal correspondent for Slate and the keynote speaker, Professor Barbara Babcock, the first woman professor at Stanford Law School. Ms. Banipal was elected to the regional position of Outreach Chair for the West region, and will be serving on this committee. For more information about the organization, visit www.ms-jd.org. After winning the regional competition in Las Vegas last month, the moot court team of Katia Benthale, Rob Webster, and Matt Wechter competed in the national finals of the ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition in Chicago. This competition is the largest and most prestigious in the country and nearly 180 teams competed in regions throughout the nation. Chapman was one of only a couple of schools in the country who had a team in the national finals for the second consecutive year. The team advanced past the first day of competition, outlasting ten other schools in the national finals. Though the team narrowly lost in an elimination round by less than two points, the results put Chapman as one of this year’s top fifteen moot court teams in the country! Special thanks to one of last year’s regional champions and alumni, Marcus Garrett, for accompanying the team to Chicago and helping with logistics and coaching. In addition, Chapman Law successfully defended its title at the California Bar Environmental Negotiation Competition this past weekend. The second-year team of Katie Henggeler and Alex Hanson added to their recent hardware from the mediation competition by winning the negotiation competition as well. This is the third time in the past six years a Chapman Law team has won this competition. March 2008 At the American Association for Justice Trial Advocacy Competition, Chapman’s team of Luigi Monteleone, Michael Delaney, Joel Griffith, and Jeremy Katz finished 6th overall out of 15 teams. For the second year in a row, Chapman’s Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition team made the "sweet 16" at this a large and prestigious competitionThe team was Alex Brewsaugh, Adam Luetto, and Jessica Blair. For the second year in a row, Chapman’s ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition team is going to national finals and for the first time ever, we got both teams into the semifinal round. The team of Katia Benthale, Rob Webster, and Matt Wechter will be traveling to Chicago next month for the nationals. Katia also earned an individual award as the Third Place Advocate. The team of Sarah Mitchell, Arlinda Witko, and Brandon Sylvia (brief writer) unfortunately lost in the semi-final round to a team from Texas Wesleyan that eventually earned a place at the national finals. This is one of the largest and most prestigious moot court competitions in the country, with 178 teams competing at the regional level, and only 24 teams earning places at the national finals. On March 13, 2008, the School of Law's Center for Global Trade and Development hosted its annual symposium at Kennedy Hall. Entitled "From Auschwitz to Darfur: The Genocide Convention at Sixty," the symposium marked the 60th anniversary of the Genocide Convention, one of the foundational instruments of international law and human rights. Learn more... February 2008 The Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel held its official hearings at the School of Law for the second straight year. Learn more... The 2008-09 Law Review Board has been selected, as follows: Editor-In-Chief, Ryan Chavez; Managing Editor, Mike Khalilpour; Senior Articles Editors, Kendra Weber and Jeremy Katz; Senior Notes Editors, Kari Kadomatsu and Allison De Tal; Production Editor Brian Thomley; Senior Symposium Editor, Alicia Jessop; Business Development Editor, Holly Buchanan; Submissions Editor, Ryan McIntyre; Articles Editors, Charles Alikin, Rebecca Brakeman, Travis Bailey, Mike Stoltzman, Bethany Teel, and Kelly Wood; Notes Editors, Alex Brewsaugh, Shelley Doi, Travis Lillie, Ryan Odenwalder, Benjamin Price, and Ruby Simjee; Symposium Editors, Christina Ignatius, Joshua Kimura, and Katie Tornberg. 3L student Rob Webster recently argued a case to the Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals. One of the judges before whom Rob argued complemented both Rob and Chapman Law School on Rob’s great performance. An appellate litigator from the Federal Public Defender's Office likewise complemented Rob’s performance, as did several Ninth Circuit staff attorneys. Way to go, Rob! On February 22, the annual Barrister’s Ball and PILF Silent Auction (also known as the "law prom") was held at the Westin South Coast Plaza Hotel. PILF thanks everyone who donated items for the auction, especially Professors Henry Noyes and Tom Bell whose “poker night” donation was the high bid of the evening, yielding $1,400 for PILF summer grants. Congratulations also to Professor Matt Parlow who was selected “Professor of the Year” by the students. On February 20, the NeXus editorial board, under the faculty supervision of Professor Hugh Hewitt, held a panel on immigration, which brought to campus several prominent scholars, including Bill Piatt, former Dean of St. Mary’s University Law School, and University of Florida Law Professor Robert Moffat. Our own Professor Marisa Cianciarulo rounded out the panel to great acclaim. On February 19, Chapman hosted a talk by Edward J. McCaffery, Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law and Professor of Law,Economics and Political Science at University of Southern California Gould School of Law and Visiting Professor of Law and Economics, California Institute of Technology. Professor McCaffery's talk was entitled “A Unified Theory of Tax and Property.” This event was sponsored by the Busch Firm of Irvine, California; the Tax Law Society; the Public Interest Law Foundation; the Investment Law Society; and the Federalist Society. On February 15-16, Chapman Law's Center for Land Resources partnered with Syracuse College of Law's Center for Property, Citizenship and Social Entrepenuerism for a workshop of papers in progress. Learn more... On February 8, the Chapman Law Review hosted The 10th Annual Chapman Law Review Symposium, "Publicity Rights in Bytes." The much-anticipated event lived up to its advance billing and was a great success. Learn more... January 2008 On January 25, the School of Law hosted the 9th Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (“BAP”) for official hearings in the school’s Appellate Courtroom. Learn more... On January 24, Chapman hosted the American Board of Trial Advocate's "Masters in Trial" Program. Learn more... Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith joins Chapman law faculty. Learn more... December 2007 The official results are in for the July 2007 bar examination and Chapman has achieved a best-ever 72% California Bar pass rate for a summer exam. Learn more... Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas made a special visit to the law school on December 17, 2007. Learn more... The Law Library announced that it has put on display a signed copy of the memoir, My Grandfather’s Son, by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. During Justice Thomas' visit this month, he signed a copy of his work. The framed book now hangs on the staircase landing, just inside the law library entrance. The Chapman community is invited in for a view. A second, unsigned, copy of the book is in the circulating collection. The call number is KF8745 .T48 A3 2007. November 2007 Dean John Eastman appears on Fox News Special Report with Brit Hume to discuss his work on birthright citizenship. Chapman law students Gino Monteleone and Garret Wong win Best Advocate Awards at the the prestigious NACDL Mock Trial Competition. The School of Law ranks in three top-ten categories in 2008 Best 170 Law Schools (Princeton Review), including a #1 rank for quality of life. Learn more... October 2007 Entrepreneur-turned-attorney Diana Todaro ('03) is featured in an October 2007 OC Metro story. The article "What It Means to Be Famous Worldwide" written by Chapman law student Ian McClure was published in the October 2007 issue of The Federal Lawyer. The article focuses on protection of "famous" international trademarks that are unregistered. Ian is a Notes Editor for the Chapman Law Review as well as Vice President of the Entertainment and Sports Law Society. September 2007 Assistant Director of Career Services Donna Davis-Gregory will speak on "Blogging for a Job" at the Equal Justice Works Conference and Career Fair, Washington, DC on Saturday, October 6, 2007. She will also be a panelist on Don't Ask, Don't Tell Panel Discussion: Academic and Practical Perspectives" at USC, Gould School of Law in Los Angeles on Wednesday, October 10, 2007. August 2007 New LL.M. in Prosecutorial Science program kicks off with summer launch. Learn more... Nobel laureate Vernon Smith leads distinguished team of 11 new faculty members to join law school in 2007-08. Learn more... New associate deans and chair positions announced for School of Law. Learn more... July 2007 Tracy Simmons, the law school's Assistant Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, has been selected to serve on the Services and Programs Committee for the Law School Admission Council for a second term. This committee Reports to the LSAC Board of Trustees and is responsible for: law school services (LSDAS, test administration, data services); test preparation materials; recruitment services and calendars; monitoring service quality; educational programming and professional development; publications; prelaw advisors; and Canadian concerns. The volunteer structure of LSAC ensures that all committees include Deans, Faculty, and Admissions Professionals. New Family Violence Clinic is law school's fifth student clinic. Learn more... June 2007 John Eastman is named Dean of the law school. Learn more... Newest members of California Bar are sworn in at Chapman. Learn more... May 2007 2007 law grads shine at moonlight commencement ceremony. Learn more... School of Law honors top students at graduation ceremony. Learn more... Law alumnus Keith Evans ('99) returns from Naval Reserve deployment in Iraq. Learn more... Law school alumni raise over $10,000 for new Parham Williams Public Interest Law Scholarship. Learn more... April 2007 Terry Palmos ('98) gives $40,000 to ENLURE program. Learn more... Colleagues, old friends and family members honor retiring Dean Williams. Learn more... Student IP Society joins practitioners at Chapman's International IP Symposium. Learn more... Former death row inmate, Kerry Max Cook, speaks to packed audience. Learn More... March 2007 Dean Williams is honored at an emotional reception on March 8. Learn more... Chapman reaches Top 5 in SSRN Graduate Tax Rankings for All-Time Downloads. See rankings... Professor Kurt Eggert is quoted in the March 8 Wall Street Journal. Read article... Professor Larry Rosenthal has a winning month in the U.S Supreme Court! Learn more... Professor Robin Wellford Slocum has been invited to join the Lexis-Nexis Advisory Board. Learn more ... February 2007 Donna M. Davis-Gregory joins the Career Services and Professional Development Office. Learn more… Chapman law is well-represented in the 2007 Southern California Super Lawyers magazine. Learn more… Jayne Kacer is named the 2007 Professor of the Year by Chapman’s law students. Congrats to Jayne! January 2007 Professor Francine Lipman has moved to the # 8 spot nationally at the SSRN Tax Professor Rankings, for recent paper downloads. Review the Rankings… Several Chapman representatives elected to Board and Section positions with the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) in Washington DC, January 3-6, 2007. Learn more ... The School of Law has appointed Scott Johns as Assistant Professor of Academic Achievement. Learn more… December 2006 Law school and ADL Immigration Reform debate appears on KOCE's Real Orange Show and in the Orange County Register's print and web news stories. Learn more ... Chapman Professor Kurt Eggert has been quoted prominently in a major Business Week story about predatory lending practices. Kurt's scholarship in this area has led to invitations to testify before Congress on predatory lending issues and also resulted in him being named as a member of the Federal Reserve Board's Advisory Council, where he chairs the subcommittee on Consumer Credit. Learn more ... Professor Francine Lipman will present her work on Taxing Undocumented Immigrants at a conference at University of Connecticut School of Law. Learn more... Chapman scores big at recent Moot Court competitions, including a strong 4th place finish at the National Finals in Philadelphia. Learn more... Chapman Law Review Approaches Top 20% of Nation’s Best! According to the Washinton & Lee 2006 law journal rankings, Chapman Law Review has climbed to number 59 out of 262 general content law journals, up from 61 last year. Learn more… Tax Court determines that an L.A. tax attorney-CPA can deduct travel costs to do research in Chapman Law School Library; Court rejects IRS's argument that there were adequate law libraries in L.A. Learn more... |
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