»Academic Achievement Program

The Academic Achievement Program within the Fowler School of Law is designed to minimize any confusion and frustration first-year law students experience by offering the following:

One-on-one faculty mentoring
Undergraduate-to-graduate transition workshops
Essay-writing workshops in the 1L substantive law subjects
Additional instruction from advanced students (Academic Fellows)
Bar Exam Preparation

Such assistance helps students unlock the potential within them to achieve academic success in school, pass the bar exam, and become productive attorneys.

Hope Blain

JD '19

The Academic Achievement Program helped me bridge the gap between undergrad and law school by teaching me how to take notes, outline and prepare for a law school exam.

Mentoring and Workshops

Our Academic Achievement team conduct a series of skills workshops designed to help first-year students make the transition to law school. These workshops cover core skills such as course outlining, stress and time management, preparation for exams and exam writing.

In addition, the Academic Fellows – upper-level students with strong academic records – present weekly sessions in exam writing for specific first-year subjects, beginning before midterms and continuing through final exams in both 1L semesters.

Academic Fellows

Advanced students with excellent GPAs serve as Academic Fellows for first-year law courses and subjects like Evidence, Federal Income Tax, Corporations, and Constitutional Law. Academic Fellows hold weekly office hours to respond to student questions, lead review sessions and exercises in the substantive law subjects, providing feedback on writing and assisting students with their exam writing skills. Participation in the review sessions is open to all students and first-year students are strongly encouraged to attend these sessions regularly.

Bar Exam Preparation

Our Academic Achievement program helps Fowler School of Law students succeed, not only in law school but also on the bar examination. We host an exceptional Bar Preparation program each year to prepare Fowler School of Law students for the California Bar Examination.

This program includes two for-credit courses and a supplemental bar preparation program available to all Chapman students in the two months before the July bar examination.

First Generation Scholars Program

Our First Generation Scholars Program is available to all first-generation students, providing students who are the first in their families to attend college or law school with valuable support. The First-gen Scholars Program is designed to engender academic success, professional development and personal growth through a variety of educational and experiential opportunities offered throughout the academic year.

Pablo Calzada Munoz

JD '19

The people in the Academic Achievement program served as examples and mentors who helped me succeed throughout law school, in the bar and in my career.