Chapman University School of Law
| Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law | |
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| Parent school | Chapman University |
| Established | 1995[1] |
| School type | Private |
| Parent endowment | $266 million |
| Dean | Tom Campbell |
| Location | Orange, California, US 33°47′38″N 117°51′04″W / 33.79389°N 117.85111°W |
| Enrollment | 574 (Full- and part-time)[1] |
| Faculty | 87[1] |
| USNWR ranking | 126[1] |
| Bar pass rate | 68% (ABA profile) |
| Website | www |
| ABA profile | Official ABA profile |
Chapman University's Dale E. Fowler 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.[2]
Accreditation history
Established in 1995 as part of Chapman University, Chapman Law gained provisional accreditation from the American Bar Association (ABA) in 1998.[3] In 2002, the ABA awarded the school full accreditation.[4][5] 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." In 2013, the ABA fully accredited the school until 2020.[5]
Rankings
Chapman University School of Law is currently ranked 126th (3rd Tier) in the 2014 US News and World Report's annual law school rankings,[1] down 16 places from the year before.Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page).
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.[6] It was listed with a "B+" in the March 2011 "Diversity Honor Roll" by The National Jurist: The Magazine for Law Students.[7]
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.[8]
Bar passage rates
Based on a 2007-2011 5 year average, 75.8% of Chapman Law graduates passed the California State Bar. The three year average from 2009-2011 has a first time bar pass rate of 76.7%. [9] In 2012, the bar passage rate for Chapman Law School was 82% ranking the seventh highest law in the United States.
Post-graduation employment
According the law professor blog The Faculty Lounge, 36.5% of the Class of 2012 was employed in full-time, long-term positions requiring bar admission, ranking 182nd out of 197 law schools. [10] Further, Chapman was ranked 6th in terms of highest unemployment 9 months after graduation.[11]
Based on a 2002-2007 5 year average, 92.6% of Chapman Law graduates were employed 9 months after graduation.[12]
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.[13] 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.[14][15]
Other faculty
Other members of the Chapman Law faculty include Constitutional law and legal ethics scholar Ronald D. Rotunda.[16] 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, and Professor Danny Bogart, a property law expert and member of the American Law Institute. 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. Visiting Professors have included progressive international law scholar Richard A. Falk,[17] 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.[18]
Chapman Law's faculty includes four former U.S. Supreme Court law clerks,[19] including Professors Rosenthal and Campbell (above), as well as former Dean Eastman, and former Associate Dean Celestine McConville.[20]
John C. Eastman, former Dean of Chapman University of Law and current professor of constitutional law is the Chair of the Board of the National Organization for Marriage, a non-profit organization committed to preventing the legalization of same-sex marriage.
Law journals
Chapman Law has two law publications: the Chapman Law Review,[21] and the Nexus Journal of Law and Policy,[22] a student edited journal with an accompanying blog.[23]
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Best Law Schools: Chapman University". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved October 20, 2013.
- ^ Chapman University - Law - Rinker Law Library
- ^ "ABA-Approved Law Schools by Year". ABA website. Retrieved April 20, 2011.
- ^ ContractsProf Blog: March 19, 2006 - March 25, 2006
- ^ a b AALS aalsnews, February 2006 (page 6)
- ^ Best 172 Law Schools | Ranking | 2010 Top Law Programs on The Princeton Review
- ^ Larsen, Rebecca (March 2011), "Most Diverse Law Schools (Diversity Honor Roll)", The National Jurist, 20 (6), San Diego, California: Cypress Magazines: 30–37
- ^ Weyenberg, Michelle (January 2011), "Best Law Schools for Public Interest", The National Jurist, 20 (4), San Diego, California: Cypress Magazines: 24–28
- ^ "Statistics". Admissions.calbar.ca.gov. Retrieved 2012-11-09.
- ^ Rosin, Gary. "Full Rankings: Bar Admission Required, Full-Time, Long Term", The Faculty Lounge, 30 March 2013. Retrieved on 2 May 2013.
- ^ Zaretsky, Staci. "The Law Schools With the Highest Unemployment Rates"
- ^ "Internet Legal Research Group: Chapman University, 2009 profile". Retrieved April 13, 2011.
- ^ "Chapman hires former Congressman as its new dean"
- ^ "Little Chapman University Lures Big Name in Economics". The Wall Street Journal. July 26, 2007.
- ^ DeBenedictis, Don J. "Nobel-winning economist to joint Chapman School of Law," Los Angeles Daily Journal, 27 July 2007.
- ^ Chapman Faculty -- Ronald Rotunda
- ^ Chapman Visiting Faculty -- Richard Falk
- ^ Chapman Faculty -- Adjunct
- ^ LLM GUIDE - Chapman University School of Law
- ^ Wikipedia List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States.
- ^ Chapman Law Review
- ^ Nexus Journal
- ^ Nexus: Chapman's Journal of Law and Public Policy