Offered in partnership with Michael Bazyler’s widely lauded UMACT Project, the Dale E. Fowler School of Law is offering an immersive clinical practicum beginning in the Fall semester of the 2023-24 academic year focusing on the international law issues and humanitarian crisis arising from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This is the first such legal program offered by any law school in the United States.
Fall 2023
Ukraine War Law Practicum: Assisting Victims (3) Law 7948
This Practicum focuses on the international law issues and humanitarian crisis arising from Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the largest war in Europe since 1945. Ours is the first such legal program offered at any law school. The Ukraine War Law Practicum on Assistance for Victims and Accountability for Perpetrators (“Ukraine War Law Practicum”) will give Chapman law students the opportunity to work on projects assisting victims of the Ukraine war. The Practicum will be directed by Professor Michael Bazyler, Chapman law professor and founder of the law school volunteer initiative Ukrainian Mothers and Children Transport, a legal aid project created in Spring 2022 to provide emergency legal assistance to fleeing Ukrainian families.
Note: Ukraine War Law Practicum: Assisting Victims is offered in the Fall semester. Students may take one or both parts/sections of the Practicum.
Spring 2024
Ukraine War Law Practicum: Prosecuting Perpetrators (3) Law 7949
This Practicum focuses on the international law issues and humanitarian crisis arising from Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the largest war in Europe since 1945. Ours is the first such legal program offered at any law school. The Ukraine War Law Practicum on Assistance for Victims and Accountability for Perpetrators (“Ukraine War Law Practicum”) will give Chapman law students the opportunity to engage in investigation and prosecution of aggression, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
Note: Ukraine War Law Practicum: Prosecuting War Crimes is offered in the Spring semester. Students may take one or both parts/sections of the Practicum.
Bazyler’s scholarship, experience and teaching focuses on international human rights and humanitarian law, with a special emphasis on law and the Holocaust. As with the end of WWII, future lawyers will be dealing with the aftermath of the Ukraine War atrocities for many years to come. The Practicum seeks to make our law students “practice ready” for this challenge. The Practicum is graded on a numeric basis. No exams; clinical projects.