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Chapman University School of Law
Chapman University School of Law logo
Parent schoolChapman University
Established1995[1]
School typePrivate
Parent endowment$266 million
DeanTom Campbell
LocationOrange, California, US
33°47′38″N 117°51′04″W / 33.79389°N 117.85111°W / 33.79389; -117.85111
Enrollment574 (Full- and part-time)[1]
Faculty87[1]
USNWR ranking104[1]
Bar pass rate70% (July 2010 1st time takers)[2]
Websitewww.chapman.edu/law/
ABA profileOfficial ABA profile

Chapman University School of Law, commonly referred to as Chapman Law or Chapman Law School, is a private, non-profit law school located in Orange, California. The school offers the Juris Doctor degree (JD), combined programs offering a JD/MBA and JD/MFA in Film & Television Producing, and LL.M. degrees with emphasis options in Business Law and Economics, Entertainment Law & Media, International & Comparative Law, Prosecutorial Science, Trial Advocacy, and Taxation. Currently, the school has a full-time faculty of fifty-three and a law library with holdings in excess of 290,000 volumes and volume equivalents.[3]

Accreditation history

Established in 1995 as part of Chapman University, Chapman Law gained provisional accreditation from the American Bar Association (ABA) in 1998.[4] In 2002, the ABA awarded the school full accreditation.[5][6] In addition to its ABA membership, the Association of American Law Schools has admitted Chapman Law as one of its members in 2006, noting that "the school has an outstanding physical facility and has developed a faculty with a strong commitment to teaching and scholarship."[6]

Rankings

See also: Law school rankings in the United States

Chapman University School of Law is currently ranked 104th in the US News and World Report's annual law school rankings,[1] and has the 17th best tax law program.[citation needed]

The 2010 edition of The Princeton Review's Best 172 Law Schools lists Chapman Law as #2 in the "Best Classroom Experience" category, #3 in the "Best Quality of Life" category, and #7 in the "Professors Rock (Legally Speaking)" category.[7] It was listed with a "B+" in the March 2011 "Diversity Honor Roll" by The National Jurist: The Magazine for Law Students.[8]

In January 2011, Chapman Law was given a "B-" in the "Best Public Interest Law Schools" listing by The National Jurist: The Magazine for Law Students.[9]

Entrance to School of Law

Donald P. Kennedy Hall, home of the School of Law

Bar passage rates

Based on a 2002-2007 5 year average, 50.4% of Chapman Law graduates passed the California State Bar.[10]

Post-graduation employment

Based on a 2002-2007 5 year average, 92.6% of Chapman Law graduates were employed 9 months after graduation.[10]

Faculty

The current Dean of Chapman Law is former U.S. Congressman Tom Campbell, who is the former dean of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.[11] Campbell's predecessor was John C. Eastman, who unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for Attorney General of California.

Nobel Prize laureate

In 2007, Chapman Law added Dr. Vernon L. Smith, who won the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work in experimental economics, to the list of its faculty.[12][13]

Other faculty

Other members of the Chapman Law faculty include Constitutional law and legal ethics scholar Ronald D. Rotunda.[14] Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, the author of Painting the Map Red, The Fight To Create A Permanent Republican Majority and A Mormon In The White House, 10 Things Every American Should Know About Mitt Romney, is also a Professor of Constitutional Law.

Also notable is Professor Larry Rosenthal, a former Supreme Court clerk for Justice John Paul Stevens, who as Deputy Corporation Counsel for the City of Chicago argued the case of Chicago v. Morales, 527 U.S. 41 (1999), among other cases. Professor Timothy Canova is a frequent contributor to Pacifica Radio, Dissent (magazine), and elsewhere on problems of deregulation of banking and finance from a Keynesian perspective. Other Visiting Professors have included progressive international law scholar Richard A. Falk[15], W. H. (Joe) Knight, Jr., a noted scholar and member of the American Law Institute, and controversial law professor and former Bush Administration official John Yoo.

The Honorable James E. Rogan has served as an adjunct professor at Chapman Law for many years. While a member of Congress, Rogan was one of the lead prosecutors in the United States Senate impeachment trial of President Clinton in 1998-1999, and later served as U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and as Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. In 2006 Governor Schwarzenegger appointed Rogan to the Superior Court of California.[16]

Chapman Law's faculty includes four former U.S. Supreme Court law clerks,[17] including Professors Rosenthal and Campbell (above), as well as former Dean Eastman, and former Associate Dean Celestine McConville.[18]

Law journals

Chapman Law has three law publications: the Chapman Law Review,[19] the Journal of Criminal Justice,[20] and the Nexus Journal,[21] a student edited blog.[22]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Best Law Schools: Chapman University". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved April 14, 2011.
  2. ^ "General Statistics Report: July 2010 California Bar Examination". California State Bar. January 18, 2011.
  3. ^ Chapman University - Law - Rinker Law Library
  4. ^ "ABA-Approved Law Schools by Year". ABA website. Retrieved April 20, 2011.
  5. ^ ContractsProf Blog: March 19, 2006 - March 25, 2006
  6. ^ a b AALS aalsnews, February 2006 (page 6)
  7. ^ Best 172 Law Schools | Ranking | 2010 Top Law Programs on The Princeton Review
  8. ^ Larsen, Rebecca (March 2011), "Most Diverse Law Schools (Diversity Honor Roll)", The National Jurist, 20 (6), San Diego, California: Cypress Magazines: 30–37 {{citation}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  9. ^ Weyenberg, Michelle (January 2011), "Best Law Schools for Public Interest", The National Jurist, 20 (4), San Diego, California: Cypress Magazines: 24–28 {{citation}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  10. ^ a b "Internet Legal Research Group: Chapman University, 2009 profile". Retrieved April 13, 2011. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dateformat= ignored (help)
  11. ^ "Chapman hires former Congressman as its new dean"
  12. ^ "Little Chapman University Lures Big Name in Economics". The Wall Street Journal. July 26, 2007.
  13. ^ DeBenedictis, Don J. "Nobel-winning economist to joint Chapman School of Law," Los Angeles Daily Journal, 27 July 2007.
  14. ^ Chapman Faculty -- Ronald Rotunda
  15. ^ Chapman Visiting Faculty -- Richard Falk
  16. ^ Chapman Faculty -- Adjunct
  17. ^ LLM GUIDE - Chapman University School of Law
  18. ^ [1].
  19. ^ Chapman Law Review
  20. ^ Chapman Journal of Criminal Justice
  21. ^ NeXus Journal
  22. ^ Nexus: Chapman's Journal of Law and Public Policy
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