Administration and Faculty

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University Administration

    President Doti was born, reared, and educated in Chicago. He earned his B.S. in economics at the University of Illinois, and his A.M. and Ph.D. in economics at the University of Chicago.
    A prolific author in the field of economics, Dr. Doti began his teaching career at Rosary College in Illinois, before joining Chapman University (then Chapman College) in 1974. Since that time, Dr. Doti has served as dean of the School of Business and Economics, as director of the college's Center for Economic Research, and as president.
    Dr. Doti has earned a remarkable reputation as a student, faculty, and community-oriented president. Under his leadership, Chapman has grown dramatically in every way. The School of Law is the cornerstone in his ongoing campaign to make Chapman the best private institution in California.

Harry Hamilton, Ph.D.
provost and senior vice president

    Raised in Madison, Wisconsin, Dr. Hamilton attended Beloit College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated with honors with a B.A. in physics. He earned his M.S. and his Ph.D. in meteorology from the University of Wisconsin.
    Dr. Hamilton was employed by the State University of New York for twenty-five years prior to coming to Chapman University. He served as the associate dean of the Office of Innovative and Developmental Education, director of the the Educational Opportunities Program, and dean of Undergraduate Studies in addition to serving as an associate professor of atmospheric science.
    As a result of his distinguished academic career, Dr. Hamilton has served on the Weather Modification Advisory Committee of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Atmospheric Sciences Advisory Committee to the National Science Foundation, and the Meteorology Advisory Committee of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
    Dr. Hamilton is listed in Who's Who in Technology, Who's Who in Higher Education, and Who's Who in America.

School of Law Administration

    Dean Williams earned the B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Mississippi. Following service in the United States Air Force, he returned to Mississippi and "hung up his shingle" as a small town practitioner. He entered politics, being twice elected District Attorney of a five-county district, then was awarded a Sterling Fellowship for graduate work at the Yale Law School. He received the LL.M. degree from Yale and was named to the faculty of the University of Mississippi School of Law. His teaching and writing interests in subsequent years included evidence, criminal procedure, criminal law, and professional responsibility.
    After serving as associate dean, Williams was named dean of the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1971. During his fourteen year tenure as dean, he conceived and developed the Law Center concept, in which related programs are united under central administrative authority, producing greater efficiency and effectiveness in all the programs. The University of Mississippi Law Center which he administered included the School of Law, the Law Research Institute, the State Judicial College, the State Prosecutors College, and the Court Reporters Training Program. In the late 1970s, he led the planning for the new Law Center building, a beautiful facility that was completed in 1978.
    In 1985, Dean Williams was named vice president and dean of the Cumberland School of Law of Samford University. During the next eleven years, he presided over a period of significant growth and development for the law school. Highly qualified new faculty were added, the academic credentials of entering classes were increased, and a state-of-the-art law library building was constructed.
    After twenty-five years of "law deaning," Dean Williams returned to full-time law teaching. During the 1996 fall semester, he held the Whitten Chair at the University of Mississippi School of Law, returning to Cumberland the following spring. On June 1, 1997, he was named vice president and dean of the Chapman University School of Law.
    Chapman has continued to grow and develop under Dean Williams' leadership. In February 1998, the law school, in only its third year of operation, was granted provisional approval by the American Bar Association.

Leonard J. (Jack) Nelson, III, J.D., LL.M.
associate dean for academic and student affairs and professor of law

    An experienced law school teacher and administrator, Dean Nelson earned the B.A. degree magna cum laude from the University of Washington where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He received the J.D. degree cum laude from Gonzaga University, and the LL.M. degree from Yale University. He clerked for Chief Justice Charles F. Stafford of the Supreme Court of Washington.
    Prior to coming to Chapman, Dean Nelson was a tenured professor at Cumberland Law School of Samford University where he also served as associate dean for academic affairs. At Cumberland, he taught courses in civil procedure and health care law. A prolific scholar, Dean Nelson has edited two books, published articles in law reviews and other professional journals, and authored several book chapters. From 1987 to 1992, he was Editor-in-Chief of Medical Malpractice Reports, a monthly publication by Matthew Bender.
    At Cumberland, Dean Nelson developed and administered the law school's joint degree program (Juris Doctor/Master of Public Health) with the School of Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. From 1989 to 1998 he held joint appointments as a professor in the Cumberland School of Law and as professor at the UAB School of Public Health. During this time, he was a senior fellow at the Lister Hill Center for Health Policy and served as an academic consultant for the Health Care Task Force of the American Legislative Exchange Council. Dean Nelson also developed and directed Cumberland's summer programs at the University of Kent, Canterbury, England, and the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

Joanne K. Punu, M.A., M.B.A.
associate dean for admissions and financial aid

Dean Punu earned the bachelor's degree cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh, and the M.A. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Hawai'i. She is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma. Her twenty-eight year career in the administration of student services and enrollment management in higher education includes positions as assistant dean at the East-West Center in Honolulu, as director of M.B.A. admissions at Berkeley, and as assistant dean at the University of Hawai'i School of Law.

An active participant in the Law School Admission Council (LSAC), the National Association for Law Placement, the American Bar Association, and the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, Dean Punu has made numerous presentations before LSAC national conferences and has served as a member of LSAC's Minority Affairs Committee.

Dean Punu has been featured as a guest panelist on Hawai'i Public Radio and on Honolulu television news programs, and was a contributing author and member of the editorial board of the Price of Paradise, Volumes I and II. Between 1995 and 1998, she was the vice-president of the board of directors of the Domestic Violence Clearinghouse and Legal Hotline in Honolulu.

At Chapman since 1998, Dean Punu is responsible for enrollment management including recruiting, marketing, admissions and financial aid.

Faculty

Useful scholarship is extremely important in a law faculty and Chapman University's faculty is productive in this respect. The faculty of the School of Law includes members with doctorates as well as several with advanced law degrees. Additionally, special attention is being given to developing a faculty that possesses considerable experience in teaching at nationally respected law schools. Several of the faculty have been named "best professors" at their previous law schools, as voted by their former students.

Chapman University is dedicated to the proposition that the study of law can be most effectively performed in a non-combative atmosphere which stresses mutual respect and genuine concern for the individual success of each student. All professors make themselves available for academic or other counseling to all of their students as needed.

Deans Parham Williams and Jack Nelson are members of the faculty in addition to being administrators.

Craig Anthony (Tony) Arnold, J.D.
assistant professor of law

    Professor Arnold came to Chapman University from teaching at Stanford Law School, where he was the recipient of a prestigious teaching fellowship. He had previously taught as a visiting professor at the University of Puerto Rico School of Law, and as an adjunct professor at Trinity University.
    Professor Arnold received his bachelor's with highest distinction from the University of Kansas, with departmental honors in both political science and history. He received two national awards, the Harry S. Truman Scholarship and the Time Magazine College Achievement Award, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
    Professor Arnold received his J.D. with distinction from Stanford Law School, where he was a co-founder and executive editor of the Stanford Law & Policy Review and graduate student fellow in the Stanford Center for Conflict and Negotiation.
    He clerked for the Honorable James K. Logan, Tenth Circuit United States Court of Appeals. From 1991 to 1995, Professor Arnold practiced law in San Antonio, Texas, with the largest and oldest South Texas law firm, Matthews & Branscomb. His practice focused on environmental, municipal, land use, and constitutional law. He represented both regulatory agencies and private businesses and developers. He served as city attorney in two local municipalities, and pro bono general counsel of a nonprofit micro-enterprise loan fund and member of the board of directors of the Texas Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights. He is an ordained deacon in the Presbyterian Church, and was deeply involved in community-based programs in San Antonio barrios.
    Professor Arnold teaches real property, zoning and land use, environmental law, land development, and real estate courses. His widely cited law review article on the effects of the Endangered Species Act on land use received honorable mention for the Murie Award in Environmental Law.

Denis Binder, J.D., LL.M., S.J.D.
professor of law

    Professor Binder has been teaching law for a quarter century. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of San Francisco and then graduated first in his class at the University of San Francisco School of Law. Subsequently, at the University of Michigan, he earned both an LL.M. and an S.J.D.
    Professor Binder has served as consultant to a variety of organizations over the years, ranging from the Army Corps of Engineers to Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers. In September 1996, Professor Binder received the National Award of Merit from the Association of State Dam Officials for his contributions to promoting dam safety for the past two decades.
    His interests include antitrust, environmental law, Indian law, natural resources law, and toxic torts.

Tom W. Bell, M.A., J.D.
associate professor of law

    Tom Bell joined the Chapman law faculty in 1998, as an experienced tenure-track professor from the University of Dayton School of Law. He received his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School where he was a member of the University of Chicago Law Review and articles editor of the University of Chicago Legal Roundtable. Professor Bell also has a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Southern California and a bachelor's degree in philosophy with honors from the University of Kansas.
    Professor Bell's expertise is in the area of intellectual property and technology law. His course offerings have included copyright and trademark law, the law of cyberspace, and international intellectual property. Before entering academia, he practiced law at Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati in Silicon Valley. From 1997 to 1998, Professor Bell was Director of Telecommunications and Technology Studies at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. He has given several interviews (including CNN) and public addresses about internet law, high-tech public policy, and intellectual property.

Daniel B. Bogart, M.A, J.D.
professor of law

    Professor Bogart earned the bachelor's degree with honors from Duke University. He returned to Duke to earn a master's degree in economics and a J.D. While in law school, he served as note editor of the Duke Law Journal.
    Following law school, Professor Bogart practiced with two Atlanta law firms, specializing in real estate transactions, commercial development, and related bankruptcy issues.
    In 1990, he was named to the faculty of the Drake University Law School where he taught courses in bankruptcy, property, modern real estate transactions, commercial lease law, economic analysis of the law, and agency/partnership. Professor Bogart received in 1995 the Editors' Prize of the American Bankruptcy Law Journal, the scholarly publication of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges. In 1996, he received the Leland Forrest Outstanding Professor Award, an honor determined by vote of the law school graduating class. That same year, Drake University awarded Professor Bogart tenure.
    Professor Bogart has written extensively in the field of bankruptcy law, and has lectured at national symposia on bankruptcy. His articles have appeared in the American Bankruptcy Law Journal, the UCLA Law Review, the Duke Law Journal, and the Dickinson/Penn State Law Review.
    At Chapman, Professor Bogart teaches bankruptcy, property, real estate transactions, and related courses.

Michael H. Cohen, M.B.A., M.F.A., J.D.
associate professor of law

    Professor Cohen obtained his bachelor's degree from Columbia University, his J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and his M.F.A. degree in creative writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. While at Berkeley, Professor Cohen was an editor of the California Law Review and lead singer of Dow Jones & the Industrials. Professor Cohen is the author of two books, Creative Writing For Lawyers and Rules of Healing: The Legal Ramifications of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and has published articles in health law and bioethics. Professor Cohen served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Thomas P. Griesa, in the Southern District of New York, and worked in the corporate department of Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York.

Rebecca D. Cornia, J.D.
assistant professor of law

    Professor Cornia received her bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Chicago, where she graduated with general honors and was elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She earned her J.D. from Harvard University.
    After graduation, Professor Cornia was associated with the Los Angeles based law firm of Adams, Duque & Hazeltine. Practicing in the firm's San Diego office, Professor Cornia handled environmental litigation and environmental regulatory matters. As the senior associate in the firm's environmental practice, she was also the managing editor of the firm's environmental newsletter.
    From 1992 to 1996, Professor Cornia taught legal research and writing as well as oral advocacy at the University of San Diego School of Law.

Frank J. Doti, J.D.
professor of law

    Professor Frank J. Doti graduated cum laude from Chicago-Kent College of Law. While at Chicago-Kent, he was associate editor of the law review and senior class president. He received a B.S. in accountancy from the University of Illinois at Urbana.
    Professor Doti has extensive legal experience including five years as an associate attorney with McDermott, Will & Emery, a large international law firm based in Chicago. For six years he was vice president and tax director of the Leo Burnett Advertising Agency, one of the largest in the world. He is admitted to practice in California, Illinois, Colorado, and the U.S. Tax Court. He is also a certified public accountant and is certified as a tax law specialist by the California Board of Legal Specialization. Professor Doti is recognized in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in American Law.
    At Chapman, Professor Doti has organized and supervises the only U.S. Tax Court Clinic for law students in California. Under Professor Doti's supervision, law  students are able to represent clients on a pro bono basis before the U.S. Tax Court.
    Professor Doti has numerous published works, including his nationally recognized article on the constitutionality of transition rules in the 1986 Tax Reform Act. As a scholar on the taxability of personal injury awards, the University of Denver Law Review, California Tax Lawyer, and the Journal of Compensation and Benefits have published Professor Doti's studies in this area. He is among the distinguished professors of West Publishing's Sum & Substance audio tape series, as author of Federal Income Tax for law students.
    He serves as a member of the American Bar Association Tax Section's Committee on Teaching Taxation.

Judith D. Fischer, M.A., J.D.
associate professor of law

    Professor Fischer obtained a master's degree in English from Bradley University and taught college English before attending law school. She received her J.D. degree from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, where she was a member of the St.Thomas More Honor Society. She served as note and comment editor of the Loyola Law Review.
    Following law school graduation, Professor Fischer became associated with the venerable Long Beach and Los Angeles firm of Ball, Hunt, Hart, Brown & Baerwitz. She handled a general business litigation practice there, litigating in such areas as contracts, wrongful termination, real estate, insurance defense, and white collar crime. Her practice took her into state and federal courts at both the trial and appellate levels. In 1989, she became a partner of the firm, which merged with another in 1990 to become Carlsmith, Ball, Wichman, Murray, Case, Mukai & Ichiki, with offices throughout the Pacific Rim.
    From 1991 to 1995, Professor Fischer taught at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where she also directed the legal extern program. She joined the Chapman law faculty in 1995.
    Active in bar activities, Professor Fischer served on the board of governors of the Long Beach Bar Association. As a member of the Ethics Committee of the Cincinnati Bar Association, she drafted ethics opinions for publication.
    Professor Fischer has published articles on remedies, law and literature, gender and the law, and professionalism in legal writing. She has also presented continuing bar education programs in both California and Ohio.

Hugh Hewitt, J.D.
associate professor of law

    Professor Hewitt is a cum laude graduate of Harvard College and a magna cum laude and Order of the Coif graduate of the University of Michigan Law School. He co-hosts the weeknight television news and public affairs show "Life & Times" on PBS Los Angeles affiliate KCET-TV, and a weekly radio show on L.A.'s KFI devoted to politics and free-market economics. "Life & Times" has received numerous awards for its coverage of issues relating to politics and economics in the West.
    Professor Hewitt served for nearly six years in the Reagan administration in a variety of posts including assistant counsel in the White House, special assistant to Attorneys General Smith and Meese, and general counsel and director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. He writes regularly for the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and national magazines, and is the author of three books, including the widely acclaimed First Principles. Professor Hewitt was the first director of the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace in Yorba Linda, California.
    Professor Hewitt specializes in natural resource and federal administrative law and has represented numerous development companies and homebuilders on endangered species and wetlands issues.

Scott W. Howe, J.D.
professor of law

    Professor Howe earned his bachelor's degree summa cum laude in economics from the University of Missouri, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan, where he served as administrative and article editor of the Michigan Law Review.
    After law school, Professor Howe practiced criminal law in Washington, D.C., and Texas. For five years, he served as staff attorney for the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, representing hundreds of persons charged with crimes ranging from larceny to first-degree murder. He subsequently served as deputy director of the Texas Death Penalty Resource Center, in Austin, Texas, representing inmates under execution warrants on Texas' death row.
    Professor Howe was also on the faculties of two other law schools before arriving at Chapman. Initially, he served as adjunct professor at the University of Texas Law School, where he supervised a clinical course on death penalty litigation. He subsequently served for seven years on the faculty of Western New England College School of Law, earning tenure and the rank of full professor. He also was thrice voted Professor of the Year.
    Professor Howe has written extensively in the area of criminal law and procedure. His works have appeared in numerous journals, including, the Michigan Law Review, the Georgia Law Review, the Boston University Law Review, the Iowa Law Review, and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.
    Professor Howe is admitted to practice in Washington, D.C., Massachusetts, and numerous federal courts, including the United States Supreme Court.

Frank E. Jones, Jr. J.D., LL.M.
visiting professor of law

    Professor Jones received his bachelor's degree from Yale University and his J.D. from Georgetown where he graduated in two years, won the Moot Court debating competition, was a member of the Georgetown Law Journal, and attained membership in the scholastic honor society, the Order of the Coif. Also while at Georgetown Law School, he was the director of the Georgetown Glee Club, tenor soloist of St. Matthews Cathedral, moderator of the Georgetown Forum of the Air (TV show), and president of the Young Democrats of Washington, D.C. He received his LL.M. from Georgetown.
    Professor Jones was, in Washington, D.C., successively an attorney with the Securities and Exchange Commission, regional attorney for the Office of Salary Stabilization, and special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States.
    In 1953-54, he was a Sterling Fellow at Yale Law School and a teaching assistant in political science at Yale. He was a professor of law at the University of Southern California from 1954 to 1990 where he received the Best Teacher Award and a Lifetime Achievement Award. Since then he has been a teaching professor emeritus at USC and a visiting professor at other law schools, including Chapman. His primary interests are in constitutional law and legal theory and policy.
    He is a member of the bar in Connecticut, Washington, D.C., and California.

Susanna M. Kim, J.D.
assistant professor of law and director of the externship program

    Professor Kim completed a double major in English and psychology at Stanford University, graduating with distinction and with membership in Phi Beta Kappa. Part of her undergraduate work was completed at Oxford University in Oxford, England. She received her J.D. from UCLA School of Law, where she served as an editor of the UCLA Law Review and graduated Order of the Coif.
    Professor Kim clerked for the Honorable Robert Boochever, on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Following her clerkship, Professor Kim joined the law firm of O'Melveny & Myers. Practicing in the firm's Orange County office, Professor Kim handled matters relating to corporate securities transactions and corporate reorganizations.
    In 1997, she joined the faculty of the Chapman University School of law. Professor Kim teaches the corporations and legal ethics courses. She also is the director of the law school's Externship Program.

Sheryl Summers Kramer, M.S.L.S., J.D.
associate professor of law and director of the law library

    Professor Kramer received her master of science degree in library science from Wayne State University. After serving for six years as a librarian with the Detroit College of Law, Professor Kramer received her J.D. from that institution. She served as the deputy director of library services at the Thomas M. Cooley Law School, and as a medical reference librarian and the computer assisted legal research librarian for the Theodore Levin Memorial Library for the U.S. Courts in Detroit, Michigan. She arrived at Chapman in 1995 as law librarian and associate professor.

Joanne M. Lindsey, J.D.
Associate professor of law

    Professor Lindsey received her bachelor's degree magna cum laude from Neumann College and her J.D. from Temple University. She co-founded a commercial diving company, where she served as president throughout the early 1980s.
    After serving as an adjunct professor of business law in the M.B.A. program at St. Joseph's University for several years, Professor Lindsey moved to Widener University School of Law in 1984. There, she held positions as director of placement and assistant dean, supervising the functions of admissions, financial aid and recruiting.
    Professor Lindsey is admitted to the bars of Pennsylvania, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Jeremy M. Miller, J.D., LL.M.
professor of law and dean emeritus

    Professor Miller received his bachelor's degree from Yale University. After graduating from the Tulane University Law School, Professor Miller received his LL.M. degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He is admitted to the Massachusetts bar and the Supreme Court of the United States.
    After working for the Suffolk County (Massachusetts) District Attorney's office and spending some time in corporate practice, Professor Miller enjoyed the distinction of serving as law clerk to two consecutive Chief Justices of the Colorado Supreme Court. A playwright and author, he has over 150 publications, including texts, outlines, and numerous law review articles. He has served as a columnist for almost a decade for the Los Angeles Daily Journal, Southern California's newspaper for the legal profession.
    In 1994 Professor Miller was named editor-in-chief of Orange County Lawyer Magazine, the official publication of the Orange County Bar Association, a position he continues to hold. For eleven years he served as a professor of law at Western State University, and was named the founding dean of the Chapman University School of Law in 1995. He teaches criminal law and criminal procedure.

Sharon C. Nantell, J.D., LL.M.
professor of law

    While earning her law degree at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Professor Nantell was employed by the Internal Revenue Service in the Collection and Estate and Gift Tax Divisions. Upon receiving her J.D., she served as corporate staff attorney in the Tax Department of the Sherwin-Williams Corporation Headquarters Office.
    After obtaining her Masters of Law in Taxation degree from Georgetown University Law Center, Professor Nantell commenced ten years of private practice experience in Denver, Colorado, in the areas of estate planning, estate administration and charitable organizations.
    Beginning in 1983, Professor Nantell also maintained an affiliation with the Denver Paralegal Institute, first as an instructor and later as director of placements. By 1985, she was director of the Institute, one of the first American Bar Association approved paralegal schools in the country, and was president/chief operating officer until 1989.
    Professor Nantell joined the faculty of the Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan, as an assistant professor in 1989. She was promoted to associate professor in 1992 and taught taxation, wills, business organizations, professional responsibility, and estate and gift taxation.
    She was the first female faculty member in the twenty-two year history of that school to receive the coveted Stanley E. Beattie Teaching Award for classroom and professional excellence (in 1992 and 1995).
    Professor Nantell is admitted to the bar in Colorado and has published in the areas of taxation and estate planning. She joined the Chapman faculty in 1995.

Larry O'Neil Putt, J.D., LL.M.
professor of law

    Professor Putt possesses a mixture of tenured faculty experience and extensive experience in private practice. He obtained his bachelor's degree in political science at Mississippi State University and later obtained his J.D. and LL.M. degrees from the University of Mississippi. He is admitted to the Alabama and Mississippi bars as well as several Federal District Courts and the Fifth and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeals. He was an associate professor of law at Cumberland School of Law of Samford University, where he earned tenure. In 1982 he left his tenured faculty position at Cumberland to re-enter private practice as managing partner of Smyer, White & Putt in Birmingham, Alabama, where he specialized in corporate practice and real estate and environmental litigation.
    Professor Putt has published several articles on water rights issues, was the recipient of two major U.S. government research grants, and helped write Alabama's conservation and natural resources laws. He teaches property, water rights and appellate advocacy.

Nancy L. Schultz, J.D.
professor of law

Professor Schultz earned a bachelor's degree in communications from the University of Wisconsin and received her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. After law school, she practiced with two of the largest law firms in Philadelphia, then went into general practice for a year. She taught legal writing at the Villanova University Law School for three years, then became director of legal research and writing at the George Washington University Law School, where she remained for seven years.

Professor Schultz teaches courses in client interviewing and counseling, negotiations and advanced oral advocacy. She also coaches teams for interscholastic competitions in trial and appellate advocacy, negotiations, and client counseling.

Professor Schultz has co-authored three texts in the research and writing field, and has organized and presented numerous programs at national gatherings of legal writing professionals. She has also authored an article on legal education and lectured on that subject at the Judge Advocate General (JAG) School in Charlottesville, Virginia.

William L. Stallworth, J.D., Ph.D.
Salvatori professor of law

    Professor Stallworth obtained his bachelor's degree from Cornell University and received his J.D. from Harvard Law School. He also did graduate work at Stanford University, where he held the coveted Wallin Fellowship and was awarded a Ph.D. in sociology. Professor Stallworth then embarked on a successful career as counsel to General Electric Company in corporate transactions, antitrust, employment law, and commercial law.
    In 1990 Professor Stallworth joined the faculty at the University of Dayton School of Law, where he taught antitrust, commercial drafting, contracts, and Uniform Commercial Code law. He was a multiple winner of Dayton's prestigious Professor of the Year Award.
    He joined the Chapman faculty in 1995 and continues to teach business related courses.

Rafael X. Zahralddin, J.D., LL.M.
assistant professor of law

    Born in Colombia and raised in Chile and the United States, Professor Zahralddin received his B.S. in architecture from the University of Virginia. He attended Widener University School of Law where he served as an articles editor on the law review. He received his LL.M. in international and comparative law from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a senior writing fellow.
    During his graduate law studies, he served as a law clerk to the Small Business Administration's Office of General Counsel, the Federal Communication Commission's International Bureau of the Telecommunication Division, and as an intern to the Honorable Ricardo Urbina of the Federal District Court of the District of Columbia. Professor Zahralddin was also a field reporter and contributing editor to the Latin American Telecom Report, headquartered in Washington, D.C., and has published several articles concerning international commerce and trade, particularly in the areas of small business and emerging economies.
    Professor Zahralddin is a member of the Pennsylvania bar, the American Society of International Law, and the Inter-American Bar Association.