Faculty News

2007

Professor Kurt Eggert was interviewed this morning on AirTalk with Larry Mantle on the public radio KPCC 89.3 about the new Federal Reserve’s proposed regulatory changes for mortgage lending. Listen to the interview... Professor Kurt Eggert was also quoted in a number of major publications this week on the subprime mortgage crisis: Christian Science Monitor, "Fed passes reforms to combat subprime mortgage crisis" (read article...); Forbes.com, "Damned If They Do ... " (read article...); The Los Angeles Times, "Fed looks to rein in lenders" (read article...) (subscription required), and the McClatchy Newspapers (read article...),   He’s also been asked to write a regular blog for the Orange County Register, the first installment of which can be viewed at http://mortgage.freedomblogging.com/2007/12/22/foreclosures -and-bailouts/.

Professor John Hall has published a major opinion essay, "Manila's Dirty War," in the International Herald Tribune, one of the leading English-language newspapers published overseas. Read article...

Chapman's graduate tax faculty has ranked #4 nationally for recent SSRN downloads and #5 for all-time downloads. See rankings... And, Chapman's tax faculty has ranked #10 nationally for recent SSRN downloads and #17 for all-time downloads. See rankings... 

Dean John Eastman appeared on a nationally televised Fox News Special Report with Brit Hume on Friday, December 14, 2007, discussing his work on birthright citizenship.

Associate Dean Tim Canova will travel to Israel later in December to present a paper. On December 28th, 2007, Dean Tim Canova will present a paper entitled "The Washington Consensus and the Limits of Citizen Participation in Wartime" at an international conference sponsored by the Minerva Center for Human Rights, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The conference, which will be held at Tel Aviv University and is titled "Democratic Citizenship and War," will explore the theoretical and practical implications of war and terror situations for the institution of citizenship in democratic states.

Professor Rosenthal recently filed a friend-of-the-Court brief on behalf of Pabst Licensing Gmbh & Co. in Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Electronics, Inc., No. 06-937. At issue in this case is the enforceability of licensing agreements that restrict the manner in which a licensee can market patented technology. The amicus brief argues that contracts containing limited licensing rights ought to be enforced despite the rule of "patent exhaustion" because when parties can contract around this rule, they are more likely to achieve efficient and procompetitive results.

Professor Henry Noyes taught a course on “The Internet and Emerging Jurisdictional Issues:  Contracting away your rights and locating conduct that occurs in virtual worlds” to approximately 100 attorneys at the California Center for Judicial Education and Research's Trial Court Judicial Attorneys Institute at the Pacific Palms Hotel in Industry Hills. 

Professor Katherine Darmer appeared this morning on KDOC-TV, the first story on Daybreak OC, commenting on the federal indictment of Orange County Sheriff Michael Corona.  Professer Darmer was articulate and insightful on this developing story.

Professor David Llewellyn will be a guest lecturer in the Constitution & Civil Rights course at the William Jessup University on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2007, from 12:00- 1:30 pm. The topic will be electoral process and voting rights.

Professor Ernesto Hernández- López will make a presentation entitled “A Free-Trade ‘Tortilla Discourse’?: NAFTA Corn Tariffs and Mexican Food Identity” at the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and Humanities. The conference is scheduled to be held in Berkeley, California in March 2008. Learn more... 

Professor Tom Bell will participate in a panel discussion on “The Future of Copyright” on November 2, 2007 at Vanderbilt Law School.  This is part of the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law Symposium: User Generated Confusion: The Legal and Business Implications of Web 2.0. Learn more...

The British American British Council of Orange County (BABCOC) and the Orange County Forum co-hosted a dinner and British-style debate at the Irvine Hilton on the topic, "Is there a better way to elect the chief executive?" The debate participants included Dean John Eastman, Baroness of Colingtree Jill Knight, Professor Hugh Hewitt and Professor John Hall. The debaters compared U.S. presidential elections with parliamentary elections in the United Kingdom in a lighthearted fashion. The story was reported in the Orange County Register. Read story...

Chapman's Family Violence Clinic, run by Professor Marisa Cianciarulo, was featured in an in- depth aritcle by the Orange County Register entitled "New law clinic pairs Chapman, community." Read article...  The clinic was also feature on KDOC's television news show, Daybreak OC on October 18. Reporter Julie Koch interviewed students Kelsey Brown and Gary Polk about their work in the clinic, with most of the class appearing briefly on camera. As described by Professor Cianciarulo, "It was a brief but very sympathetic piece."

Professor Marisa Cianciarulo will be keynote speaker at Gender-Related Immigration Issues put on by the Central Orange County Area League of Women Voters on October 24, 2007.  Learn more...

Dr. Vernon L. Smith will be the keynote speaker at the 50th Anniversary celebration of Purdue’s Krannert School of Management on October 25, 2007.  Dr. Smith began his teaching career at Purdue in 1955 at the School of Management. Learn more...

Professors Tim Canova and Donald Kochan debated Global Warming: Hoax or Horror Stories? on Professor Hugh Hewitt's radio show. Listen to debate...

Thomson-West publishing company has released a new book by Professor Frank Doti entitled Contract Law Flowcharts & Cases. This book is primarily intended as a visual learning guide for first year Contract law students. It contains 20 flowcharts on the more difficult areas of common law contracts and Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code dealing with the sale of goods. It also contains a series of unique reported cases which are not available in most contract law casebooks. Learn more... 

Professor John Hall's Op-Ed piece "Here's Hoping China Hasn't Taken Offense" appeared in the October 5, 2007 issue of Investor's Business Daily. This is a lighthearted take on the serious issues arising on an increasingly frequent basis in China. Read article...

Dean Tim Canova will speak on The Federal Reserve and Constitutional Moments Lost at the UCLA School of Law on October 22, 2007.

Professor Matthew Parlow will present at the Boston College Environmental Law Review Symposium on “Greening the Corporation

Professor Daniel Bogart will be the keynote speaker at the annual Kratovil Real Estate Lecture and Conference on October 19, 2007 at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago. His lecture, "The Right Doctrine in the Wrong Transaction: Good Faith and Fair Dealing in Commercial Leasing," will be published as an article in the John Marshall Law Review. 

October 4, 2007: Dean John Eastman and Professor Hugh Hewitt will join a panel of distinguished experts on October 23 to debate the topic: "This House Holds That...There is a better way to elect the Chief Executive." The British Style debate is co-sponsored by the Orange County Forum and the British American Business Council. Learn more...

Professor Tom Bell will present a paper, "Copyright as Privilege," to a conference on Creators vs. Consumers: The Rhetoric, Reality, and "Reformation of Intellectual Property Law and Policy" at the Syracuse University School of Law on October 26.

October 2, 2007: Three members of the Chapman law faculty – Tim Canova, Ernesto Hernandez, and Francine Lipman -- will present their works at the 12th Annual LatCrit conference hosted by Florida International University in Miami on October 5-7, 2007.  Associate Dean Tim Canova will present, "The Critical Localities of Mass Migration:  Dislocation and Adjustment in the Do-Nothing State;" Professor Hernandez will present on NAFTA’s zero-tariff for corn and Mexican food identity; and Professor Lipman will present her paper, "Tenemos Sesenta Quatro Años: Latinos/as and Social Security Reform?"

Professor Hugh Hewitt will lecture at the United States Air Force Academy on October 5, 2007. Professor Hewitt recently published a new book on presidential candidate Mitt Romney entitled, A Mormon In The White House?   This is his second New York Times Best-Seller in the past three years.

Professor Luz Herrera will present her work on community entrepreneurship and accessible legal services for small businesses as a tool for economic development at the 11th Annual National Latina/o Law Student Association Conference at the University of Wisconsin Law School on October 13, 2007.

Associate Dean Celestine Richards McConville recently published an article, "The Meaninglessness of Delayed Appointments and Discretionary Grants of Capital Postconviction Counsel," in the Tulsa Law Review.

Professor Francine Lipman spoke on Representing Undocumented Workers and Low-Income Taxpayer Committee at the ABA Joint Sections of Taxation and Real Property, Probate and Trust Law, Vancouver, Canada.

Professor Lawrence Rosenthal recently published an article, "A Theory of Damages Against the Government: Torts, Constitutional Torts, and Takings," in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law.  Professor Rosenthal also presented a work in progress on the emerging First Amendment law of “managerial prerogative” at the University of Colorado annual Symposium on Current Scholarship in Employment Law. 

Professor Larry Rosenthal presented his work in progress, The Emerging First Amendment Law of Managerial Prerogative, at the University of Colorado as part of The Second Annual Colloquium on New Scholarship in Labor and Employment Law.

Associate Dean Tim Canova presented on "Global Trade, Endangered Species, and the New Protectionism" at the 15th Annual Animal Law Conference at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon.  Dean Tim Canova recently published an article, "Closing the Border and Opening the Door: Mobility, Adjustment, and the Sequencing of Reform," in the Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy.

Professor Tom Bell presented "Outgrowing Copyright:  The Effect of Market Size on Copyright Policy" to the Fifth Annual Works in Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium at the American University Washington College of Law on.  Professor Bell recently published an article, "Prediction Markets for Promoting the Progress of Science and the Useful Arts," in the George Mason Law Review.

Professor Luz Herrera presented her work on access to justice at the Bellow Scholar Gathering sponsored by the AALS Clinical Section on Lawyering in the Public Interest, at the University of Maryland School of Law. 

Dean John Eastman recently published an article, "Politics and the Court: Did the Supreme Court Really Move Left Because of Embarrassment Over Bush v. Gore?," in the Georgetown Law Journal. 

Professor Scott Howe recently published an article on capital sentencing law, "Furman’s Mythical Mandate," in the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform. 

Two Chapman Law professors made the top ten on SSRN lists in recent weeks.  Professor Ernesto Hernandez’s article entitled "Migration and Reinterpreted Sovereignty in the US and Mexico:  Inspiration from Third World Transnational National Identities" was named to the Law & Society: International and Comparative Law list last week.  In addition, Professor Matt Parlow’s article entitled "A Localist's Case for Decentralizing Immigration Policy” made the top ten on the U.S. Constitutional Law: Separation of Powers and Federalism list and the Immigration, Refugee & Citizenship Law list in the past two weeks.  

Dean John Eastman was quoted in World Magazine.  The article, “Trouble by the Bundle”, discusses the political campaign donations by Norman Hsu.  Hsu’s donations were found to be illegal and while others believe the current rules should be changed, Dean John Eastman sees no problem with the current donation rules.  John Eastman states that people are striving to have an impact and that changing the laws and rules for political donations is not going to solve the problem because people will only find a political voice in another means. 

Professor John Hall's op-ed “Yet Another U.N. Scandal” was published in the U.S. and Asia editions of the Wall Street Journal.  The piece is a critical commentary on the United Nations-sponsored Khmer Rouge tribunal in Cambodia.  Professor John Hall’s muckraking analysis draws on his field research, his expertise in international law and institutions, and his eye for historical context. 

Professor Marisa Cianciarulo was quoted in the Orange County Register in an article “Know the Signs of Contemporary Slavery” which discusses the hidden problem of slavery in the United States.  Professor Cianciarulo discusses the Trafficking Victims Protection Act and specifically the T-Visa which is intended to help the victims of trafficking crimes but it currently not reaching its full potential. Learn more...

According to a recent study conducted by Roger Williams School of Law, Chapman Professor Francine Lipman has had more articles published in the nation’s top 50 law journals than any other tax law professor at a third or fourth tier school. 

Professor Danny Bogart and his co-author Celest Hammond, have completed their new course book, Commercial Leasing: A Transactional Primer (Carolina Press). Learn more about the book....

Professor Francine Lipman will be the moderator and a panelist for a tax panel titled "Representing Undocumented Immigrants" at the Fall 2007 ABA-Sections of Taxation and Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Joint Meeting in Vancouver on September 29, 2007. Professor Lipman will also be presenting her work in progress "Tenemos Sesenta y Quatro Anos: Latinos/as and Retirement" at LatCrit XII Critical Localities, College of Law, Florida International University, Florida, October 5-6, 2007.  This paper was previously discussed at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools 2007 Annual Meeting in August where Professor Lipman sat as one of several panelists discussing Immigration Reform.

Professor Kurt Eggert was quoted in the Bloomberg regarding a lawsuit with allegations of racial bias in the sale and financing of homes.  Read article...  

Professor Melissa Berry's most recent article, "Beyond Chevron’s Domain:  Agency Interpretations of Statutory Procedural Provisions," was recently published as the lead article in the Seattle University Law Review’s Spring 2007 volume (30 Seattle U. L. Rev. 541).  The article argues against extending Chevron deference to agencies interpreting their own statutory procedural provisions regarding the type of procedures that need to be followed in agency adjudications. Read article...

Dean Tim Canova will be speaking on “Global Trade, Endangered Species, and the New Protectionism” at the 15th Annual Animal Law Conference at the Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon on Sept. 28, 2007.  Learn more...

Dean Tim Canova’s article, “American Wartime Values in Historical Perspective:  Full- Employment Mobilization or Business as Usual,” was recently published by the ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law  as part of a symposium volume of papers from a conference hosted by the Center for Global Trade and Development at Chapman University. Read article...  

Professor Kurt Eggert was quoted in the New York Times on the mortgage crisis in an article entitled "Mortgage Maze May Increase Foreclosures." Read article...

The law school has announced the following new titles: Associate Dean Tim Canova has been named the Betty Hutton Williams Professor of International Economic Law; Associate Dean Celestine McConville has been named the Henry Salvatori Professor of Law and Community Service; and, Professor Daniel Bogart has been named the Donley and Marjorie Bollinger Chair in Real Estate, Land Use and Environmental Law.

Professor Mike Lang's remarks to the Exempt Organizations Committee at the May Meeting of the ABA Section of Taxation on “Ethical Issues Arising out of the Patenting of Tax Strategies” will appear in Tax Notes Today (a daily electronic newsletter) and The Exempt Organizations Tax Review (monthly hard copy publication).  Also at the May meeting in Washington, Professor Lang organized and moderated a program for the Administrative Practice Committee on “Ethical Issues in Connection with the Patenting of Tax Planning Strategies (Part I – Issues Affecting the Lawyer Who is Seeking or Holds a Patent).”  The panel will present the second part of this program, “Part II – Issues Affecting a Lawyer Who is Advising a Client but Has No Financial Interest in the Patent,” to the Standards of Tax Practice Committee at the Fall Joint Meeting of the Section of Taxation and the Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law in September in Vancouver. The program he organized and moderated for the Section of Taxation’s Committee on Closely-Held Businesses at the Midyear Meeting in January in Hollywood, Florida entitled “Conflicts of Interest and Related Ethical Considerations in Representing the Closely-Held Business and Its Owners” will be presented again with the same team at the ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, sponsored by both the Section of Taxation and the Center for Professional Responsibility. 

Professor Mike Lang made a presentation to the Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility on “Ethical Issues under the Model Rules of Professional Conduct Arising out of the Patenting of Tax Planning Strategies.”  He has tentatively agreed to speak on “Current Ethical Issues in the Tax Field” at the Tulane Tax Institute in New Orleans in October.  He has agreed to Chair a group from various Committees of the Section of Taxation that will be examining a change in the accuracy standards applicable to return preparers (which covers anyone who provides significant advice that is relevant to an entry on a return) that was signed by the president at the end of May.  This change will require that he substantially rewrite the chapter of his casebook in process, Tax Practice Ethics. Professor Lang's recent writing activities have also included the following: In June, he submitted the manuscript for the teachers manual to the casebook Federal Tax Accounting [with Elliott Manning (Miami) and Steven Willis (Florida)] that was published by LexisNexis last year.  In May, he and Isa Lang submitted a quarterly supplement to the Index to Federal Tax Articles.  Another will be submitted in August, by which time the earlier supplement will hopefully be published. 

Professor Kurt Eggert was quoted in The Economic Times (India) on the subprime meltdown issue. Read article...

Dean John Eastman discussed commuting of Scooter Libby sentence on NPR's "Air Talk" program. 

Chapman's graduate tax faculty has ranked in SSRN's national top 5 for recent and all-time scholarship downloads. Learn more...

Professor Matt Parlow's most recent published piece entitled "A Localist's Case for Decentralizing Immigration Policy" was published by the Denver Law Review as part of its annual symposium.  Read article...

Professor Tim Canova will be speaking on July 20 at the Animal Rights 2007 National Conference in Los Angeles, which is the world’s largest and oldest animal rights conference. Professor Tim Canova will be speaking about the impacts of global trade and trade agreements on animals. Click here for additional information about the conference program, schedule, and speaker bios. The conference will be held July 19-23, 2007. 

Professor Hernández-López’s presentation incorporating free-trade law analysis and Latin American cultural studies titled "A free-trade 'Tortilla Discourse'? : NAFTA’s zero-tariff corn hegemony for Mexican food identity" will be included in the conference LatCrit XII Critical Localities, College of Law, Florida International University, Florida, October 5-6, 2007.

Professor Cianciarulo discusses new domestic violence clinic on KOCE's Dialogue With Jim Doti. Learn more...

Professor Francine Lipman's appearance on "Dialogue with Jim Doti" will be re-aired on Tuesday, July 24 at 11:30 p.m., and Sunday, July 29, at 10:00 a.m..  See original item ....

Professor Francine Lipman's article "Celebrating Life (Chai) and Taxes" that was originally published in the ABA Section of Taxation Newsquarterly, Fall 2006 (1:13), has been selected for inclusion in the September 2007 issue of GPSolo Magazine, which has a special 'Best of ABA Sections" theme. The magazine will be sent to the Division’s 30,000 members and subscribers. "Best of ABA Sections" is a compilation of some of the best magazine, journal, and newsletter articles published by the ABA’s sections, forums, and divisions. View article...

Professor Kurt Eggert was quoted in a June 21, 2007 Reuters story on new credit card fee disclosures proposed by the Federal Reserve's Consumer Advisory Council. Professor Kurt Eggert is part of a select group of national experts on the Advisory Council. Click here to view the Reuters story...

Professor Donald Kochan participated in the teleconference panel "How Should the Courts Interpret Split Decisions?" Listen to archive...

Professor Matthew Parlow was quoted in the Orange County Register relating to an ongoing zoning dispute in San Clemente involving an ordinance establishing height limits on homes in certain neighborhoods that may block neighbors' views. View article...

Professor Larry Rosenthal's paper entitled, "Does Due Process Have an Original Meaning? On Originalism, Due Process, Procedural Innovation . . . And Parking Tickets" was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for  "JR: Constitutional & Statutory Interpretation (Topic)" and "LSPLCL: Judicial Review (Topic)." View abstract and statistics...

Professor Ernesto Hernandez' article "Sovereignty Migrates in US and Mexican Law: Transnational Influences in Plenary Power and Non-Intervention,” will be published in 40 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law ____, in November 2007

Professor Tom W. Bell has been invited by the University of Utah Law Review to write a paper, which will appear as "Codifying Copyright's Misuse Defense," 2007 Utah L. Rev. __ (2007). Professor Bell has also been invited to present a paper at a symposium planned by the Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media at Syracuse University (IJPM), to be held Oct. 26. 2007.  In addition to the keynote address, the day-long symposium will consist of four sessions, each of which will be devoted to a separate topic (Trademarks, Patents, Copyrights, and New Frontiers of IP).  Each session will feature the presentation of research by a scholar followed by commentary from practitioners. Professor Bell will present the copyright paper.  After the conference, he will revise his paper in light of the participants' commentary, and the final work will be published in a symposium issue of the Syracuse Law Review.

Professor Ernesto Hernandez will present on the panels "(Sovereign) Conversations on Immigration" and "Law and Justice in the Age of Globalization: Marking the 200th Anniversary of Britain’s Abolition of the Slave Trade (1807)," at the 4th Annual Gloucester Summer Legal Conference, Texas Wesleyan Univ. School of Law and Univ. of Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, UK, July 19-21, 2007. Professor Hernandez is also currently working on the following works-in-progress: “Sovereignty migrates in US and Mexican law: Transnational Influences in Plenary Power and Non -Intervention,”  for What is Wrong with the Way We Teach and Write International Law, AALS-ASIL Joint Conference, Vancouver, BC, June 17th to 20th; "Sovereignty migrates in US and Mexican law: Transnational influences in Plenary Power and Non-Intervention,” for Thomas Jefferson School of Law (TJSL) Workshop series, San Diego, CA, April 27, 2007; Chapter: “Sovereignty along el Río Bravo/the Rio Grande changes in US immigration law and Mexican foreign relations law” in Both Sides of the Border: The Politics, Economics, and Culture of Migration and the US-Mexican Border (eds. Edward Ashbee, Helene Balslev, Carl Pedersen, Center for Studies of the Americas, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007) forthcoming.

Professor Matthew Parlow's article entitled “Civic Republicanism, Public Choice Theory and Neighborhood Councils: A New Model for Civic Engagement” will be published by the Colorado Law Review (forthcoming 2008).

Professor Ernesto Hernandez spoke on the topic "The “New Immigrants” - Who They Are, Why They Came, Where They Live and Work," Immigration Symposium, Media and Public Interest Institute, Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, Chapman University.

Professor Henry Noyes has signed a publication agreement with the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology for his most recent article, “Good Cause Is Bad Medicine For The New E-Discovery Rules.”

Professor Kurt Eggert testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment on “Subprime Mortgage Market Turmoil: Examining the Role of Securitization.”  The witness list included the following: Mr. Gyan Sinha, Senior Managing Director and Head of ABS & CDO Research, Bear Stearns & Co. Inc.; Mr. David Sherr, Managing Director and Head of Securitized Products, Lehman Brothers; Ms. Susan Barnes, Managing Director of Ratings Services, Standard & Poor's; Mr. Warren Kornfeld, Managing Director, Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Rating Group, Moody's Investors Service; Mr. Kurt Eggert, Professor of Law, Chapman University School of Law; and, Mr. Christopher Peterson, Associate Professor of Law, University of Florida, Levin College of Law.

Professor Bobby Dexter has accepted a publication offer from Tulane Law Review for his article entitled "Two if by Sea and Three if by Shock and Awe and Fright!" Professor Dexter's talk paper "Transfiguration of the Deadbeat Dad and the Greedy Octogenarian: An Intratextualist Critique of Tax Refund Seizures" (published in the University of Kansas Law Review), will be reprinted in The Monthly Digest of Tax Articles. 

Professor Francine Lipman jumped to 7th place on the national list of Recent Downloads at SSRN's Tax Professor Rankings. View full list...

Professor Kurt Eggert addressed the sub-prime lending problem on NPR's All Things Considered. Listen to interview...

Professor Francine Lipman was interviewed by President Jim Doti of Chapman University on his weekly television show, "Dialogue with Jim Doti." Professor Lipman's colleague from the IRS, Ms. Colleen Rucker, whose work focuses on taxpayer education and outreach, joined her as President Doti and his co-host Kristina Dodge interviewed them on the current hot topic of “Undocumented Immigrants and Taxes.”  "Dialogue with Jim Doti" is a half-hour weekly talk show that airs on KOCE-PBS.  This episode originally aired on KOCE-PBS Tuesday, April 24, at 11:30 p.m., and repeat on Sunday, April 29, at 10 a.m.  It is going to be re-aired on Tuesday, July 24 at 11:30 p.m., and Sunday, July 29, at 10:00 a.m.. The show is broadcast throughout Southern California, including Santa Barbara, the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, Orange County, the Inland Empire and Coachella Valley.

Professor Ernesto Hernandez' paper "Migration Transnationally Turns Sovereignty in Mexican and US Law: Inspiration in Changed Nationalism and New Judiciary Roles," has been accepted for presentation at the Law and Society Conference to be held this summer in Berlin, the largest gathering of legal academics aside from the AALS annual meeting. 

Professor Larry Rosenthal filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the United States Supreme Court in the case of Sole v. Warner. At the request of the State and Local Legal Center, Professor Rosenthal represented a group of governmental organizations in a the case, which concerned whether a group of nude protesters were entitled to recover attorney’s fees for obtaining an injunction authorizing their nude war protest event even though the ultimately lost their case.  The following students assisted Professor Rosenthal in representing the amici on a pro bono basis: Ian Holmes, Jennifer Levin, Christine Ludwiczak, Sarah Mitchell, Elmira Rezaei, and Aaron Vaughan. View brief in full...

Professor Larry Rosenthal brief in the United States Supreme Court case of Wallace v. Kato et al was decided in favor of Rosenthal's client. Professor Rosenthal represented two Chicago police detectives in the case, which presented the question whether the statute of limitation on a false arrest claim begins to run at the time that the false arrest occurs, or only after criminal proceedings stemming from the false arrest have concluded. This issue is of considerable practical significance given the number of DNA exonerations that have occurred in recent years, which create the risk that civil litigation over a false arrest might be brought many years after the arrest, at a time at which memories have faded and it may be difficult for police officers to defend themselves from what are very stale claims. View brief in full...

Professor Ernesto Hernández- López will present a paper entitled "Migration and Reinterpreted Sovereignty in US Immigration Law and Mexican Foreign Relations Law: Inspiration from Third World Transnational National Identities" at the 3rd Third World and International Law Conference (TWAIL) held at the Albany Law School, NY, April 20- 21, 2007. TWAIL conferences convene leading scholars and practitioners from around the globe working on Third World legal issues. Previous TWAIL conferences were held at the Harvard Law School and Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada.

Professor Matthew Parlow will speak at Denver University Law Review’s symposium on Immigration Law. Professor Parlow will also publish an article in the Denver University Law Review entitled “A Localist’s Case for Decentralizing Immigration Policy.”

Professor Matthew Parlow will speak at Hamline Journal of Public Law & Policy’s symposium entitled “Laboratories for Democracy? Innovations in Health Law and Policy at the State Level.” Professor Parlow will also publish an article in the Hamline Journal of Public Law & Policy entitled “Revolutions in Health Care? A Localist Perspective."

Chapman School of Law Professor Tim Canova has been invited to serve as a panelist at the 101st Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law in Washington, DC, March 28 to March 31, 2007. The panel topic will be “Non-State Actors and Transnational Governance”. Learn more (PDF)...

Associate Dean John John Eastman's chapter “Reinterpreting the Education Clauses in State Constitutions” has been published in the book School Money Trials (Brookings). In it, Professor John Eastman explores how the recent spate of education adequacy litigation is misconstruing clauses that were considered to be hortatory goals for state legislators, instead treating the provisions as establishing fundamental rights to certain levels of education as determined by the judiciary.  He concludes with a cautionary note about how this trend undermines democratic government.

Visiting Professor Betsy Levin will host a lunchtime guest lecture series for law school faculty during Spring semester. Learn more…

Professor of Law & Director of Legal Writing, Robin Wellford Slocum, has been invited to join the Advisory Board to LexisNexis Publishing Company.  By accepting the appointment, she joins a select group of nationally-recognized legal scholars who have published successful casebooks and textbooks.   In addition to advising the publishing company on matters pertaining to legal education in general, the Advisory Board members serve a peer review function for evaluating potential new casebooks.  Professor Slocum’s two-year term began on January 1, 2007.