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Program Requirements
LL.M. in BUSINESS LAW & ECONOMICS,
Twenty-four (24) units of credit are required to obtain the LL.M. degree. Full-time students may enroll in a minimum of nine (9) and a maximum of fourteen (14) units per semester. To receive financial aid, a student must be enrolled in a minimum of five (5) units per semester. Degree requirements must be completed within four (4) years. The LL.M. degree in Business Law & Economics requires completion of two or three required core courses. Introduction to American Law, a two credit course taught at before the beginning of each fall semester, is required of all foreign lawyers with a degree from a non-common law jurisdiction or law school. In addition, all LL.M. students are expected to complete a substantial writing project, and recommended to consider completing this requirement through Directed Research. Students also are strongly encouraged to pursue experiential learning opportunities, either through enrollment in an externship for credit (normally 3 to 5 cr.), or through other volunteer or paid employment. In some circumstances, student may receive credits toward the LL.M. degree for courses taken before matriculation into the LL.M. Program, and for courses taken at another law school or in Chapman University School of Law's J.D. curriculum after matriculation into the Program. The grades in such courses are ignored in determining whether the student's grade point average satisfies the LL.M. degree requirements. A student may petition to receive up to six (6) credits toward the degree for certain LL.M. level courses or advanced J.D. level courses taken at any ABA-accredited law school during the three academic years preceding matriculation into the Program and within five years of completing the Program, provided in the case of each course that (1) the course is determined to be equivalent to a course or courses currently included in the LL.M. curriculum and (2) the student received at least a grade of "B" or the equivalent in the course. Applicants requesting such credit should so indicate when applying for admission and provide a syllabus or other description of the material covered in the course for which such transfer credit is sought. In no case will credit be given for extension or correspondence courses. In unusual cases, a student may petition the Director of the Program in order to request additional transfer credits. With the approval of the Director, a student may petition to receive up to twelve (12) credits toward the degree for LL.M. level courses or advanced J.D. level courses equivalent to courses currently in the LL.M. curriculum taken at Chapman University School of Law during the three academic years preceding matriculation into the Program and within five years of completing the Program, provided the student received at least a grade of "B" in the course for which credit is sought. With the prior approval of the Director and for good causes shown, a matriculated student may receive up to six (6) credits in the aggregate for LL.M. level courses taken at another ABA-accredited law school and courses taken in the Chapman University School of Law J.D. curriculum, provided the student receives at least a grade of "B" or the equivalent in each such course. There is no mandatory grading curve for LL.M. courses. Instructors in courses with both J.D. and LL.M. students will be asked to grade the two groups of students separately unless granted a waiver of the J.D. mandatory grading curve by the Associate Dean in accordance with existing rules.
Admission Admission to the Program will be open to graduates of ABA-accredited American law schools or foreign equivalents. An application must include law school and college transcripts, a resume or c.v., two (2) letters of recommendation, and a personal statement outlining the student's preparation, interests, and goals for graduate study. An applicant will only be admitted if the applicant's record, viewed as a whole, indicates that the applicant is likely to complete the Program successfully. The applicant's academic record (at the undergraduate, graduate, and law level) and relevant experience are the primary factors considered. At this time, the curriculum design and schedule assume that students will begin the Program in the fall semester (except for those foreign lawyers who begin with the summer course). Thus, no applications will be accepted for spring entry. The priority deadline for admissions is March 1, with a final deadline of June 1. Foreign lawyers are especially encouraged to submit their applications as early as possible, in order to ensure enough time for the processing of student F-1 visas. For Foreign Lawyers: Foreign students who have not studied or received a degree at either an English language law school or university must complete the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) with a score of 600 on the paper-based test, 250 on the computer-based test, or 100 on the Internet-based test. In addition, those students who do not possess a J.D. or LL.M. degree from either an American, Canadian, or other common law jurisdiction law school will be required to take a two-week summer course, Introduction to American Law, designed exclusively for LL.M. students and taught by the Director of Graduate Studies, supplemented by the participation of other Chapman faculty and staff. This course will include a substantial component on legal research and writing in the American context, and would begin in early August, leading directly into the Law School's two-day orientation program in mid-August.
Faculty
B.A., LL.B., National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India Professor Badrinarayana comes to Chapman from Pace Law School, where she completed her Doctorate in Juridicial Studies in Environmental Law. Professor Badrinarayana researched for Professor Frank P. Grad at Columbia Law School on environmental and public health laws. Between 2005 and 2006, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Global Legal Studies, Columbia Law School. Professor Badrinarayana is also a consultant to the United Nations Global Compact, on issues of corporate voluntarism and regulations. Before coming to the United States, Professor Badrinarayana was a Research Officer for a Government of India-World Bank Environmental Capacity-Building Project, at the National Law School of India University. In addition to research and advocacy, she also trained government officials and legal professionals in environmental law. Professor Badrinarayana was part of a team that advised the Government of India on its new legislation to manage biomedical waste. Professor Badrinarayana holds an LL.M. in Environmental Law from Pace Law School and a B.A.LL.B.(Hons) from the National Law School of India University. She is also a Member of the World Conservation Union, Committee on Environmental Law.
Michael Bazyler is a research fellow at the Holocaust Education Trust in London and the holder of previous fellowships at Harvard Law School and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. In Fall 2006, he was a Research Fellow at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem (The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority of Israel) and the holder of the Baron Friedrich Carl von Oppenheim Chair for the Study of Racism, Antisemitism and the Holocaust. Before joining Chapman in 2008, he was a Professor of Law and The "1939" Club Law Scholar in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies at Whittier Law School. He received his B.A. from UCLA and his J.D. from USC. Professor Bazyler is the author of over a dozen law review articles on subjects covering public international law, international human rights law, international trade law and comparative law. His work has been published in such journals as The University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Kansas Law Review, Arizona Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, University of Richmond Law Review, Stanford Journal of International Law, Berkeley Journal of International Law, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, and Fordham Journal of International Law. Over his 25-year law teaching career, Professor Bazyler has been a visiting professor at various law schools in the United States, Australia, Russia, Belarus, and Israel, teaching Comparative Law, Public International Law, International Human Rights Law, International Business Litigation, International Business Transactions, Criminal Law, Torts and a course he created entitled Holocaust, Genocide and the Law. In Spring 2007, Professor Bazyler held the position of Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Pepperdine University School of Law, teaching Comparative Law and Holocaust, Genocide and the Law. He is a leading authority on the use of American and European courts to redress genocide and other historical wrongs. His book on the subject, Holocaust Justice: The Battle for Restitution in America’s Courts (New York University Press, 2003, soft cover 2005), was cited by the U.S. Supreme Court and reviewed in the Harvard Law Review, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Financial Times (London), and The Economist. He is a contributor of chapters to various books on genocide and the law, and the co-editor/author with Roger Alford of Holocaust Restitution: Perspectives on the Litigation and Its Legacy (New York University Press, 2006; soft cover 2007). He is presently working on two books: a textbook based upon his Holocaust law course entitled Holocaust, Genocide and the Law (with Australian law professor Sam Garkawe), and a Comparative Law casebook entitled Comparative Law: Global Legal Traditions in the 21 st Century (with Russell Miller of University of Idaho, Peter Yu of Michigan State and Abdullahi An-Na`im of Emory University) to be published by LexisNexis. Courses Taught: International Law (including Holocaust Studies), International Business Transactions, and Criminal Law
Email: tbell@chapman.edu
Professor Bell joined the faculty of Chapman University School of Law in 1998. He specializes in high-tech legal issues and has written a variety of papers on Intellectual Property and Internet Law. Professor Bell received his Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago Law School in 1993, where he served both as a member of the University of Chicago Law Review and as Articles Editor and cofounder of the University of Chicago Legal Roundtable. After graduating from law school, Professor Bell joined the Silicon Valley law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. He entered teaching in 1995, when he became an Assistant Professor of Law in the Law and Technology Program at the University of Dayton School of Law. During a one year leave of absence from that school, and just prior to joining the Chapman faculty, he served as Director of Telecommunications and Technology Studies at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. In addition to writing a steady stream of scholarly works, Professor Bell has appeared on or been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, CNN, Los Angeles Times, and many other news sources. He teaches Intellectual Property, Internet Law, Advanced Seminar on Copyright Law, Entertainment Law, International Entertainment Law, Tort Law, Contract Law, and Agency and Partnership. Courses Taught: Intellectual Property, Internet Law, Advanced Seminar on Copyright Law, Entertainment Law, International Entertainment Law, Tort Law, Contract Law, and Agency and Partnership
Email: bogart@chapman.edu
Professor Bogart practiced law in Atlanta, Georgia, specializing in real estate transactions, commercial development, and bankruptcy law. Professor Bogart’s scholarly, teaching and national service interests carry forward his focus on transactions. He is the co-author of four books, including “Commercial Leasing, A Transactional Primer.” This innovative book is the first law school real estate text devoted to commercial leasing. More recently, Professor Bogart co authored “Inside Property, What Matters and Why,” which is part of Aspen’s new Inside the Law Series. Professor Bogart is past Chair of the Real Estate Transactions Section of the Association of American Law Schools. Professor Bogart is Director of the School of Law’s Center for Land Resources. Professor Bogart is also Director of the Environmental Law, Land Use and Real Estate Law (“ENLURE”) Certificate Program. Professor Bogart began his teaching career in 1990, when he was named to the faculty of the Drake University Law School. Professor Bogart joined the Chapman School of Law faculty in 1998. Professor Bogart was one of four Chapman University faculty members to receive the 2009 Valerie Scudder Award, recognizing outstanding achievement in teaching, scholarship, advising, and service. He has also been named outstanding teacher at both the Drake and Chapman Law Schools. Professor Bogart’s articles have appeared in the UCLA Law Review, the American Bankruptcy Law Journal, and the Pittsburgh Law Review, among others. In 1995, Professor Bogart received the Editor's Prize of the American Bankruptcy Law Journal for his article evaluating the fiduciary duties of directors of Chapter 11 corporations. Professor Bogart is also a regular speaker at scholarly events. Professor Bogart was the 2007 Keynote Speaker at the Annual Kratovil Conference on Real Estate Law & Practice at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago. He has also served as a panelist at the Annual Meeting of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, Workshops for Bankruptcy Judges, sponsored by the Federal Judicial Center, and Real Property Retreats, sponsored by both the Real Property Law Section of the State Bar of California and the Real Property, Probate and Trust Section of the ABA. Professor Bogart has chaired most of the key committees of the Law School, at one time or another. Notably, Professor Bogart chaired the committee devoted to the Law School’s successful membership application to the Association of American Law Schools. Professor Bogart is a Member of the American Law Institute and is a Fellow of both the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and the American Bar Foundation. He received his B.A. (1982), J.D. (1986) and M.A. in Economics (1986) from Duke University. He teaches Property, Real Estate Transactions, Commercial Leasing, California Real Estate Finance, Bankruptcy and related courses.
Email: dexter@chapman.edu
Professor Bobby Dexter joined the full-time faculty at Chapman in the Fall of 2006 after serving as a Westerfield Fellow at Loyola University (New Orleans) College of Law. A specialist in tax and business law, he previously served as a tax partner in the Chicago office of Foley & Lardner, LLP and later at a “Big Four” accounting firm. Professor Dexter’s scholarship has appeared in numerous journals, including the Harvard Law Review, the Tulane Law Review, the University of Kansas Law Review, and the Mercer Law Review; his most recent article, “Tenure Buyouts” will be published in the University of Pittsburgh Law Review in 2009. While in practice, he co-authored (as principal draftsman) Tax Management Portfolio #546, Annuities, Life Insurance, and Long-Term Care Insurance Products and co-edited the insurance company chapter of the Mertens Federal Income Taxation treatise. As presenter or discussant, Professor Dexter has appeared at various conferences around the United States and Canada including the Annual Meeting of the Law & Society Association (2008), the National Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (2008), the Junior Tax Scholars Workshop (at NYU) (2008), Director’s Roundtable (2008), and the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) (2008). At Chapman, Professor Dexter currently serves on the law school’s Faculty Appointments Committee as well as its Academic Achievement Committee. He also serves as one of four law school representatives on the Chapman University Faculty Senate as well as the Senate’s Faculty Governance Council. Professor Dexter received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Yale University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he served on the Editorial Board of the Harvard Law Review with U.S. President Barack Obama. Professor Dexter teaches Federal Income Taxation, Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions, Secured Transactions, and Corporations.
Email: kochan@chapman.edu
Professor Kochan joined the Chapman faculty in 2004 as an Assistant Professor of Law. Immediately before coming to Chapman, he was an Olin Research Fellow and Instructor in Law at the University of Virginia School of Law for the 2003-2004 academic year. During 2002-2003, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law where he taught courses in Property and Environmental Law; and, during the summer of 2007, he was a visiting Professor at the University of Houston Law Center. Professor Kochan received his Juris Doctor from Cornell Law School (1998), where he was a John M. Olin Scholar in Law and Economics and managing editor of the Cornell International Law Journal. He also served as editor and executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy symposium issues in 1997 and 1998. He received his B.A. from Western Michigan University (1995), with majors in political science and philosophy. After graduating from law school, Professor Kochan was a law clerk to The Honorable Richard F. Suhrheinrich of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Following his clerkship, Professor Kochan was an associate with the firm of Crowell & Moring LLP in Washington, D.C., where he specialized in Natural Resources & Environmental Law. He has been an adjunct scholar for The Mackinac Center for Public Policy since 1995 and serves as a member of the board of governors of The Virginia Institute for Public Policy. He has also served as a co-editor for the chapters on administrative law in the treatise The American Law of Mining. Courses Taught: Administrative Law, Property, Natural Resources Law & Policy and Law & Economics
Email: mlang@chapman.edu Professor Lang earned his undergraduate degree, cum laude in Linguistics and Near Eastern Languages at Harvard University, and his Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif. He joined the Chapman faculty in 2002 to launch the Tax LL.M. Program as its first Director, and returned to full-time teaching in 2007. Professor Lang’s extensive tax experience has included practice with D'Ancona & Pflaum in Chicago and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in Philadelphia, and teaching at seven other law schools, including Utah, Washington University (St. Louis) and Miami. He was most recently Professor of Law at the University of Maine School of Law, where he also served as Associate Dean from 1993-96 and as Chair of the University of Southern Maine Faculty Senate. Professor Lang actively contributes to the work of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation, for which he has chaired both the Standards of Tax Practice Committee, reflecting his interest in ethical issues in the tax field, and the Committee on Teaching Taxation. He is currently active as a member of the Section’s Task Force on Patenting Tax Strategies. Professor Lang is an elected Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel. His publications range from articles in leading tax periodicals, such as the Tax Lawyer, the Tax Law Review, the Florida Tax Review and Tax Notes, and law reviews to a treatise on Federal Tax Elections (with Colleen Khoury), a casebook on Federal Tax Accounting (with Elliott Manning and Steven J. Willis), and more than two decades of compiling the Index to Federal Tax Articles (with Isa Lang). He is currently co-authoring a casebook on Tax Practice Ethics (with Linda Galler). He was also a collaborator in the first edition of Boris Bittker’s multivolume Federal Taxation of Income, Estates and Gifts. Areas of Interest/Courses Taught: Federal Income Taxation, Ethics in Tax Practice and Corporate Taxation
Email: ripken@chapman.edu Professor Ripken completed a double major in English and Psychology at Stanford University, graduating with distinction. She was also selected to be a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She received her Juris Doctor from UCLA School of Law, where she served as an editor of the UCLA Law Review and earned membership in the Order of the Coif. Professor Ripken clerked for the Honorable Robert Boochever, on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Following her judicial clerkship, Professor Ripken joined the law firm of O’Melveny & Myers LLP. Practicing in the firm’s Orange County office, Professor Ripken handled corporate and securities transactions for large corporations and business entities. At Chapman, Professor Ripken teaches various business law courses. She has received the Scudder Award for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service. Courses Taught: Corporations, Agency & Partnership, Securities Regulation, Advanced Corporate Law Seminar, and Professional Responsibility
Professor Stahl joined the Chapman University School of Law as an Assistant Professor in 2008. Before joining Chapman, he spent four years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of New York. Prior to that, he worked as a Trial Attorney for the United States Department of Justice, Office of Constitutional Torts, and as an Associate at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Arnold & Porter. Professor Stahl earned a B.A. with Highest Honors and Highest Distinction from the University of Michigan, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. At Yale, he served as a Notes Editor of the Yale Law Journal and an editor of the Yale Journal of Law and The Humanities. Courses Taught: Land Use Law, Real Property Law, Environmental Law Visiting Faculty
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Professor Campbell joins Chapman in January 2009 as a visiting Presidential Fellow. Prior to joining Chapman, he was the Bank of America Dean and Professor of Business from 2002 to 2008 at the Haas School of Business. University of California, Berkeley. For 20 years prior to that, he was a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, a member of Congress from 1989-1993 and 1995-2001, a member of the California State Senate from 1993-95, and the Director of the California Department of Finance from 2004-05. He has a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago, and his J.D. from Harvard, where he also served as a member of the Board of Editors of the Harvard Law Review. He was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Byron White; a White House Fellow; Executive Assistant to the Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice; and Director of the Bureau of Competition at the Federal Trade Commission. He has also been serving on the Governor’s Board of Economic Advisors with our own President Jim Doti and has taught at Ashesi University in Ghana, the School of Banking and Finance and the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology in Rwanda, and the University of Asmara in Eritrea. He has published in the Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Texas, and UCLA law reviews and has a book on Separation of Powers that was published in 2004 by the Stanford press. Courses taught: Antitrust, Legislation, and a seminar on Separation of Powers. Anthony Thomas Caso Chapman University School of Law
Anthony T. Caso earned his J.D. from University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law and M.B.A. from Golden Gate University. For nearly 30 years, Professor Caso held a variety of positions at Pacific Legal Foundation, most recently serving as Senior Vice President and Chief Counsel. Presently, Professor Caso is a solo practitioner at the Law Office of Anthony T. Caso in Sacramento, California, where he practices appellate litigation with a concentration on complex statutory and constitutional issues. Professor Caso's litigation experience includes successful cases at every level of the state and federal court system, including the California Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court. Professor Caso is also an Adjunct Professor of State Constitutional Law at McGeorge School of Law and an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco, College of Professional Studies. Since 2001, Professor Caso has served as a Master of the Bench for the Anthony M. Kennedy Inn of Court and is active in the Federalist Society Free Speech and Election Law Practice Group, Federalist Society of Sacramento, and the Boy Scouts of America. Professor Caso has also given presentations in front of the Federal Bar Association and the Milton Schwartz American Inn of Court. Adjunct Faculty
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Judge Theodor C. Albert was appointed a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Central District of California on June 1, 2005. Prior to his appointment, Judge Albert was a co-founder of the law firm of Albert, Weiland & Golden, LLP in Costa Mesa, California. Before this, he was a partner at the law firm of Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger, LLP in Newport Beach, California. Judge Albert received his B.A. from Stanford University in California in 1975 and his juris doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1978. He is a member of Orange County Bankruptcy Forum, the Orange County Bar Association, and the State Bar of California. He maintains chambers in Santa Ana, California. Keith P. Bishop Chapman University School of Law
Mr. Bishop, a former California Commissioner of Corporations, is partner at Allen, Matkins, Leck, Gamble, Mallory & Natsis LLP in Irvine, California. His practice emphasizes Federal and State securities laws, public and private offerings, corporate maintenance, investment adviser regulation, mergers and acquisitions and California administrative law. Mr. Bishop has also served in the positions of Interim Savings & Loan Commissioner and Deputy Secretary and General Counsel of the California Business, Transportation & Housing Agency. In 1991, the California Senate Rules Committee appointed Mr. Bishop to the Senate Commission on Corporate Governance, Shareholder Rights and Securities Transactions. He is a former co-chairman of the Corporations Committee of the Business Law Section of the California State Bar and chairman of the Business and Corporate Law Section of the Orange County Bar Association. He is the author of Nevada Law of Corporations and Business Organizations. Mr. Bishop received his J.D. from the University of Southern California Law School where he was an Executive Managing Editor of the Southern California Law Review. COURSES TAUGHT: Sales, Advanced Topics in Corporate Governance Bruce Bulloch Chapman University School of Law
Professor Bulloch is a tax consultant specializing in real estate and transactional issues. Bruce is a retired Tax Partner from Ernst & Young, LLP, where he was leader of their Real Estate Industry Tax Practice for the Pacific Southwest Area. Bruce previously served in the Washington DC, Baltimore and Salt Lake City offices of Ernst & Young, representing numerous nationally known companies, partnerships and organizations. He is currently a Managing Member of Capital Consulting, LLC, and serves a broad range of real estate and diversified corporate clients. He has extensive experience in corporate, partnership, and transactional taxation and is a frequent lecturer and author on these issues. Bruce received his B.S. in Accounting and M.S. in Taxation from Brigham Young University in 1980, and has been a Certified Public Accountant since 1980. He was admitted to the Ernst & Young partnership in 1989. In addition to Chapman, he has taught graduate real estate programs at The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Southern California. He is the author of numerous articles in real estate publication, and has been a regular contributing tax editor for the Commercial Real Estate Journal. In addition to his work and teaching, Bruce serves on the serves on the Board of Directors and Development Committee of the Discovery Science Center of Orange County, California. William B. Bunker Chapman University School of Law
Mr. Bunker is a partner at the highly regarded Newport Beach firm, Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP, where he specializes in intellectual property law. He has written and lectured frequently on intellectual property law and has served as a legal expert witness in various intellectual property matters. Mr. Bunker received his Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from California Polytechnic University Pomona and his Juris Doctor from Brigham Young University. COURSES TAUGHT: Patents and Trade Secrets
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B.A. Duke University Mr. Hay taught at Cornell Law School as the visiting Distinguished Practitioner in 2001 and currently teaches at Chapman Law School. He is a member of the American Law Institute Board of Advisors for its Restatement of Employment Law project. Mr. Hay was the moderator of the California State Bar's "Recent Developments in Employment Law" program in Orange County for 16 years. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Labor and Employment Section of the State Bar of California, and was Co-Chair of the Special Committee formed by the California Bar Association to study wrongful termination litigation and legislation. He has authored chapters of Schlei and Grossman, Employment Discrimination Law (BNA 1976, 1979 and 1983 Editions), Advising California Employers (CEB 1981 and 1996), Wrongful Employment Termination Practice (CEB 1987 and 1997), Sexual Harassment in Employment Law (BNA 1992) and several articles in the Orange County Bar Journal. Mr. Hay has extensive experience in mediations, arbitrations, wrongful termination litigation, discrimination/harassment prevention and litigation, employment policies and handbooks, EEOC, DFEH, and wage/hour matters, federal and state court litigation, and NLRB and related union matters. Scott M. Knutson Chapman University School of Law
Mr. Knutson is a partner with the Irvine, California office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, where he is a member of the firm’s Tax Department. Mr. Knutson earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Washington State University and his law degree cum laude from the University of Minnesota. COURSES TAUGHT: Taxation Thomas A. Miller Chapman University School of Law
Mr. Miller is a Senior Deputy County Counsel for Orange County where he advises County agencies on matters related to real estate, land use, planning, and public facilities. Mr. Miller earned his Bachelor of Science degree from James Madison University and his law degree cum laude from Syracuse University College of Law. Mr. Miller was previously in private practice where he represented school and water districts in real estate contract and litigation issues in areas such as eminent domain, real and personal property acquisition, public bidding, and construction planning and financing. Courses Taught: Legal Research and Writing, Advanced Land Use Seminar, and Local Government Real Estate Practice Seminar  Robert K. Morrow Adjunct Professor of Law Chapman University School of Law
Mr. Morrow is in private practice and previouslyserved as an adjunct professor at Golden Gate University Law School and as director of that school's LL.M. tax program in Los Angeles. Mr. Morrow received his law degree from The American University, Washington College of Law and has an LL.M. in Taxation, with honors, from Golden Gate University Law School. COURSES TAUGHT: Taxation of Business Associations, Partnership Taxation, S Corporations, Closely-held Business Tax Planning Kyhm Penfil Chapman University School of Law
Ms. Penfil is Associate Counsel to the Chancellor at The University of California, Irvine, where she advises the Chancellor, Provost, Vice Chancellors and Deans on a broad range of legal issues. She formerly was a partner at Irell & Manella LLP, where her practice focused on intellectual property litigation at the trial and appellate level. Her publications include “In The Light of Reason and Experience: Should Federal Evidence Law Protect Confidential Communications Between Same-Sex Partners?” 88 Marquette L. Rev. 815 (Spring 2005). Law & Politics Magazine and Los Angeles Magazine have twice named Ms. Penfil one of the Top 50 Female Superlawyers in Southern California and one of the Top 50 Superlawyers in Orange County. Ms. Penfil earned her J.D., Order of the Coif, from The University of Southern California, where she served on the Southern California Law Review, and her A.B. in Art and Architectural History from Wellesley College. She serves on the board of the Anti-Defamation League of Orange County and Long Beach. Ms. Penfil previously was an art historian at the Wildenstein gallery in New York. COURSES TAUGHT: Copyright Law, Ninth Circuit Appellate Law Clinic, Trademark Law Scott Wellman Chapman University School of Law
Mr. Wellman is a named partner at the law firm of Wellman & Warren. Mr. Wellman graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in mathematics from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1975. He earned a Master's Degree in Economics and a J.D. from the University of Southern California in 1978. He has also studied at the International Trade Law Program at Cambridge University in England, and at the Institute of Legal Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. Mr. Wellman specializes in complex business transactions and litigation. His areas of expertise include national and international commercial and human rights litigation, securities and trade regulation, the formation of corporations and partnerships, land-use applications and development, labor law, and unfair business practices. LL.M. in Business Law & Economics Courses REQUIRED COURSES LAW AND ECONOMICS (3 credits) SPONTANEOUS ORDER AND THE LAW (3 credits) ELECTIVE COURSES ACCOUNTING FOR LAWYERS (2 credits) ADMINISTRATIVE LAW (3 credits) ADVANCED REAL ESTATE FINANCE (2 credits) ADVANCED TOPICS IN COPYRIGHT LAW (2-3 credits) ADVANCED TOPICS IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (2-3 credits) ADVANCED TOPICS IN BUSINESS LAW (2-3 units) AGENCY, PARTNERSHIPS, AND OTHER UNINCORPORATED ORGANIZATIONS (3 credits) ANTITRUST LAW (3 credits) BANKRUPTCY PROCEDURE AND PRACTICE, PART I (2-3 credits) BANKRUPTCY PROCEDURE AND PRACTICE, PART II (2-3 credits) BUSINESS PLANNING (2 credits) CORPORATE MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS (3 credits) CORPORATE TAX (3 credits) CORPORATE TAX II: MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS (3 credits) INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (3 credits) INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS (3 credits) INTERNATIONAL ENERGY SECURITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE (2-3 credits) INTERNATIONAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (2-3 credits) INTERNATIONAL REGULATION AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (2-3 credits) INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW (2-3 credits) LABOR LAW (3 credits) LAND USE REGULATION (3 credits) PARTNERSHIP TAX (3 credits) PATENTS AND TRADE SECRETS (2 credits) PRIVATE TORT LAW AS PUBLIC POLICY (2-3 credits) REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT AND LAW (2 credits) REAL ESTATE TAX PLANNING (2 credits) REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS AND FINANCE (3 credits) SALES (3 credits) SECURED TRANSACTIONS (3 credits) SECURITIES REGULATION (3 credits) SEMINAR IN LAND USE LAW, PLANNING, AND POLICY (2 credits) TAX POLICY (2 credits) TRADEMARKS AND UNFAIR COMPETITION (2 credits) Contact Us
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