ENLURE Faculty

Four full-time faculty members teach ENLURE courses:

Professor Denis Binder is the senior member of the Chapman Law School faculty, having thirty-five years of teaching experience. He teaches Torts, Toxic Torts, and Environmental Law. Professor Binder received a national award for his contributions to dam safety, and has published on emergency preparedness, environmental justice, wetlands, and the duty to disclose geological hazards in real estate transactions, among other topics.  He holds a S.J.D. degree from the University of Michigan.

Professor Daniel Bogart is the Director of the Center for Land Resources and the Donely and Marjorie Bollinger Chair in Real Estate Law. He teaches Real Estate Transactions & Finance, Property, Commercial Leasing, and Bankruptcy. Voted “Professor of the Year” by students at both Chapman and Drake Law Schools, Professor Bogart’s students are the beneficiaries of his expertise in teaching transactional lawyering skills. He is the co-author of two books, including an innovative new book titled Commercial Leasing, A Transactional Primer.  Professor Bogart speaks regularly on property and bankruptcy topics, has been honored by federal bankruptcy judges for an article in their scholarly journal, and has spoken at the judges’ educational meetings.  He is chair-elect of the Real Estate Transactions Section of the Association of American Law Schools. Professor Bogart holds both a J.D. and an M.A. in Economics from Duke University.

Professor Donald Kochan brings an economic perspective to the study of natural resources, property rights, and environmental law issues. He teaches Property, Seminar in Natural Resources Law, Law & Economics, Federal Courts and Administrative Law. Professor Kochan previously served as an Olin Research Fellow in Law & Economics at the University of Virginia School of Law, a visiting professor at George Mason University School of Law, where he taught Property and Environmental Law, and an associate specializing in administrative, natural resources, and environmental law at the Washington, DC firm of Crowell & Moring. He is a graduate of Cornell Law School.

Professor Lawrence Rosenthal teaches Local Government Law for the ENLURE Program.  He previously served as Deputy Corporation Counsel for the City of Chicago for Counseling, Appeals, and Legal Policy. In that role, he was in charge of a wide variety of environmental and land use litigation and policy issues and drafted many of Chicago's environmental laws. Professor Rosenthal has argued cases in appellate courts throughout the country, including the United States Supreme Court. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he was a law clerk to U.S. District Judge Prentice H. Marshall and Associate Justice John Paul Stevens of the United States Supreme Court.

Professor Deepa Badrinarayana teaches the course on International Energy Security and Climate Change.  She 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.

Kenneth A. 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.

A variety of other faculty and administrators are involved in projects, research, and classes that relate to the ENLURE Program. Distinguished practitioners bring their expertise to the classroom as adjunct professors and speakers in ENLURE courses. They include Gino Bianchini, a senior manager of the tax consulting group of Ernst & Young’s Orange County office; Ronald DeFelice, an advisor to real estate developers and Of Counsel to the nationally prominent firm, Jackson, DeMarco, Tidus & Peckenpaugh, Christopher Natland, a partner at Bremer Whyte Brown & O'Meara, LLP, Tim Paone, a land use and environmental attorney at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips; Michele Staples, a water law attorney, and M. Alim Malik, a land use and real estate attorney, at Jackson, DeMarco, Tidus & Peckenpaugh.