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Each fall, the Fowler School of Law hosts the SCOTUS in Focus panel discussion, an annual non-partisan review of key US Supreme Court cases and decisions from the preceding year, led by a panel of faculty experts.

SCOTUS IN FOCUS 2025

AN ANNUAL SCHOLARLY REVIEW OF KEY U.S. SUPREME COURT DECISIONS

October 23, 2025
5 P.M – 8 P.M.
Room 237, Kennedy Hall
Fowler School of Law

Special Guest

LtCol Alex Douvas USMC

Lieutenant Colonel Alex Douvas (JD ‘05) currently serves as a Military Judge for the Western Judicial Circuit of the Navy-Marine Corps Trial Judiciary. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps upon graduating from California State University, Fullerton in 2002 and earned his J.D. from Chapman University School of Law in 2005.

During his distinguished career, LtCol Douvas has served in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, as Regional Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, embedded within the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California, as the Senior Defense Counsel for MCAGCC Twentynine Palms, and he has been deployed with Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force–Crisis Response–Central Command, in support of Operation Inherent Resolve (2017-2018), to name a few of his duties and deployments. LtCol Douvas earned his LL.M. in Criminal Law in 2015 from The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School, where he also served Professor of Criminal Law, and as the Criminal Law Department Vice Chair from 2020-2021.

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Event Schedule

5 p.m.
Check-in

5:20 p.m.
Welcoming Remarks
Interim Dean Ken Stahl, Professor of Law,
Chapman University, Dale E. Fowler School of Law

5:30 p.m.
SCOTUS in Focus Discussion Panel

Dr. Tom Campbell, Doy and Dee Henley Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence,
Chapman University, Dale E. Fowler School of Law

Professor Lawrence Rosenthal, Professor of Law,
Chapman University, Dale E. Fowler School of Law

Interim Dean Ken Stahl, Professor of Law,
Chapman University, Fowler School of Law

Moderator: LtCol Alex Douvas USMC (JD ‘05), Military Judge, Western Judicial Circuit,
Navy-Marine Corps Trial Judiciary

6:45 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Reception in Kennedy Hall Lobby

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