Spring 2021
Jamaal Lesane, Senior Vice President, Legal and Business Affairs for MSG Sports
Tuesday, January 26
Saru Jayaraman, President of One Fair Wage
Monday, February 8
Co-sponsored by the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association.
Asha Rangappa, Senior Lecturer at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs
Tuesday, February 16
Co-sponsored by the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association.
Andrés Irlando, Senior Vice President and President of Public Sector and Verizon Connect for the Verizon Business Group
Wednesday, March 31
Fall 2020
N. Jeremi Duru, professor of law, American University Washington College of Law
Wednesday, September 2
Co-sponsored by the Black Law Students Association.
Jimmie Gardner, judicial reform advocate, motivational speaker, 27-year wrongful conviction survivor
Tuesday, September 29
Presented in association with Chapman University’s Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences and co-sponsored by the Black Law Students Association.
Xavier Gutierrez, president and CEO of the Arizona Coyotes
Thursday, October 15
Co-sponsored by the Hispanic Law Students Association.
Cheryl Harris, Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, UCLA School of Law
Wednesday, October 28<
Presented in association with Chapman University’s Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences and co-sponsored by the Black Law Students Association.
Judge Jacqueline Nguyen, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Tuesday, November 3
Co-sponsored by the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association.
Fall 2019
- Randall Lewis, Senior Vice President of Business Affairs and Legal, CBS Television Distribution
Thursday, September 19
- Chris Park, Chief Executive Officer, Gen.G eSports
Wednesday, October 16
Spring 2020
- Russ Feingold, Former U.S. Senator
Monday, January 27
SPRING 2019
- Jeanie Buss, Chief Executive Officer, Los Angeles Lakers
Tuesday, February 5
- The Honorable Paul J. Watford, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Wednesday, March 20
- Eric Karros, FOX Sports analyst and former Major League Baseball player
Monday, March 25
FALL 2018
- The Honorable Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Thursday, September 13
- Blye Pagon Faust, Academy Award winning producer of Spotlight
Wednesday, October 10
FALL 2017
- Alan Rothenberg, Chairman
Premier Partnerships
Wednesday, October 11
- Arturo S. Rodriguez, President
United Farm Workers of America
Monday, October 16
- David Flattum, Managing Director and Global General Counsel
PIMCO
Wednesday, November 1
SPRING 2018
- Noah Hall, Special Assistant Attorney General, State of Michigan
Professor of Law, Wayne State University Law School
"The Flint Water Crisis: Criminal Charges, Class Actions, and Civil Rights"
Thursday, February 8
- Eduardo M. Peñalver, Allan R. Tessler Dean and Professor of Law
Cornell Law School
"Protecting Free Speech and Maintaining an Inclusive Campus Culture"
Tuesday, March 6
Chairman, The Contrarian Group | Former Commissioner, Major League Baseball | Former Chairman, The United States Olympic Committee | President, Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee (Laooc)
"The Evolution of the Sports Business"
Tuesday, March 15 | No webcast available
FALL 2016
The Atlantic
"2016 and the Great Disruption of American Politics"
Tuesday, September 20
- Manuel A. Utset, Jr., Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; William & Catherine VanDercreek Professor
Florida State University College of Law
"Financial Regulation: A Behavioral Law & Economics Perspective."
Monday, October 3
- Alfred Chueh-Chin Yen, Associate Dean of Faculty; Professor of Law
Boston College Law School
"Aesthetics, Stare Decisis, and Copyright's Promotion of the Arts"
Monday, October 24
- Jane E. Stromseth, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center; Lan Cao, Professor of Law, Betty Hutton Williams Professor of International Economic Law, Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law
Culture in Law and Development: Nurturing Positive Change (Oxford Univ. Press 2016)
Thursday, November 10
SPRING 2017
- Peggie R. Smith, Charles F. Nagel Professor of Employment and Labor Law
Washington University School of Law
"Regulating Care Work in an Aging Society: Past Trends and Present Challenges"
Thursday, March 16
- The Honorable Russell D. Feingold, Former United States Senator from the State of Wisconsin
Monday, April 17
FALL 2015
- Christopher Slobogin, Milton R. Underwood Chair in Law; Professor of Psychiatry; and Director, Criminal Justice Program
Vanderbilt University School of Law
“Can the Fourth Amendment Survive in a Digital Age?”
Thursday, September 10
- Lawrence B. Solum, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law
Georgetown University Law Center
“The Case for Originalism: Justifying the Constraining Force of the Constitutional Text”
Thursday, October 8
- Jennifer L. Mnookin, Dean; David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Professor of Law; and Faculty Co-Director, Program on Understanding Law, Science & Evidence (PULSE)
UCLA School of Law
"Modular, Made-in-Advance Expert Testimony: Opportunities and Obstacles"
Monday, October 26
- James Gibson, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law
University of Richmond School of Law
“Relying on Reputation”
Monday, November 16
SPRING 2016
- Robert B. Ahdieh, Vice Dean, K.H. Gyr Professor of Private International Law
Emory University School of Law
“The Golden Age of Legal Education”
Thursday, January 21
- David B. Thronson, Associate Dean for Experiential Education and Professor of Law
Michigan State University College of Law
"Immigration Law and the Family"
Monday, February 8
- Richard A. Epstein, Inaugural Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law
NYU School of Law
"Justice Scalia's Jurisprudential Legacy of Property Rights"
Monday, March 14
- Lonnie T. Brown, Jr., A. Gus Cleveland Distinguished Chair of Legal Ethics and Professionalism
University of Georgia School of Law
“From Watts to Ferguson: The Prophetic Wisdom of Ramsey Clark”
Tuesday, March 29
- Honorable Salim Joubran, Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel
"Freedom of Religion and the Role of the Supreme Court"
Tuesday, April 5
FALL 2014
- Tom Goldstein, Supreme Court litigator and co-founder SCOTUSblog
“Perspectives on Finding Your Niche and Personalizing Your Path in Law"
Monday, September 22
- Melanie D. Wilson, Dean and Lindsay Young Distinguished Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee College of Law
“The Moral Impediment to Justice"
Thursday, November 13
SPRING 2015
- Daniel B. Rodriguez, Dean and Harold Washington Professor, Northwestern University School of Law; Immediate Past President, Association of American Law Schools (AALS)
"The Law-Business-Technology Interface and its Impact on Professional Education”
Monday, January 26
- Tom Ginsburg, Deputy Dean, Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar, and Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago Law School
"Were the Framers Right about Constitutional Design? The U.S. Constitution in Comparative Perspective"
Monday, February 2
- Monica Hakimi, Associate Dean for Academic Programming and Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
"What's the Point of International Law?"
Thursday, February 19
- Nestor M. Davidson, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
"The Administrative City-State: Administrative Law in Local Governance"
Tuesday, March 24
- Garry W. Jenkins, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and John C. Elam/Vorys Sater Professor of Law, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
"Next-Gen Giving: How New Philanthropy Helps and Hurts"
Monday, April 6
FALL 2013
- Trevor Potter, Partner, Caplin & Drysdale, Washington, D.C.
“Representing Exceptional Clients in Election Law Cases”
Tuesday, October 8
- Kenneth Feinberg, Founder and Managing Partner, Feinberg Rosen, LLP
“Unconventional Responses to Unique Catastrophes: Tailoring the Law to Meet the Challenges”
Wednesday, October 23
- Douglas J. Sylvester, Dean, Professor of Law and Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Science & Innovation at Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
“The Role of Law Schools after the JD”
Monday, November 11
SPRING 2014
- Robert M. Chesney, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Charles I. Francis Professor in Law, University of Texas at Austin School of Law
“War Powers Without War? The Surprisingly Slim Legal Significance of the Armed-Conflict Model of Counterterrorism”
Monday, January 27
- Kellye Y. Testy, Dean and James W. Mifflin University Professor of Law, University of Washington School of Law
“A New Look at the Bramble Bush: The Promise of Leadership in Legal Education”
Wednesday, February 5 | This event was canceled
- Alexander M. Capron, University Professor, Scott H. Bice Chair in Healthcare Law, Policy and Ethics, Professor of Law and Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, Co-Director, Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics at University of Southern California Gould School of Law
"Should We Lift the Ban on Buying and Selling Human Organs for Transplantation?"
Tuesday, March 25
- Gillian Lester, Acting Dean and Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of Law, Werner and Mimi Wolfen Research Professor, Berkeley Law School, University of California
“Paradoxical Preferences on Social Spending and Taxes: Implications for Regulatory Design”
Thursday, April 3
- Laura Underkuffler, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and J. DuPratt White Professor of Law, Cornell University Law School
“Captured by Evil?: Markets, Morals, and the Rule of Law"
Thursday, April 10
FALL 2012
- Deborah A. DeMott, David F. Cavers Professor of Law, Duke University of School of Law
“Artful Good Faith: Law, Custom, and Intermediaries in Art Markets”
Thursday, October 18, 2012
- Philip Longman, Senior Research Fellow with the New America Foundation’s Health Policy Program
"After Obamacare: Lessons of the VA for healthcare Reform"
Friday, October 19, 2012
Note: This is a special Dialogue as part of the 2012 Nexus Symposium:"Healthy Decision or Unhealthy Oversight?: A Legal Debate on the Affordable Care Act and the Impact of the Supreme Court's Recent Decision" and will be held from 11:45 a.m. - 1:45 p.m.
- David Scheffer, Mayer Brown/Robert A. Helman Professor of Law and Director of the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago
"Chasing Leadership Impunity: The Rapid Evolution of International Criminal Law"
November 13, 2012
SPRING 2013
- Chancellor Leo E. Strine, Jr., Delaware Court of Chancery
2013 Chapman Law Review Symposium, “The Future of Law, Business, and Legal Education: How to Prepare Students to Meet Corporate Needs," a special Keynote Dialogue
Friday, February 1, 2013
- Fernando Chang-Muy, Thomas O'Boyle Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law
“International Human Rights, Refugees and Persecution"
Thursday, February 7, 2013
- Leanda Lederman, William W. Oliver Professor of Tax Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington and Director of the Law School’s Tax Program
“The War on Tax Abuse”
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
FALL 2011
- Gabriel "Jack" Chin, Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law
Civil Death in the Regulatory State
Friday, September 16, 2011, 11:30 a.m.
- Laura Rothstein, Professor of Law and Distinguished University Scholar, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville
Disability Policy in Education Settings: The Eisenhower Highway System as a Roadmap
Friday, September 23, 2011, 11:30 a.m.
- Adrien K. Wing, Bessie Dutton Murray Professor, University of Iowa of College of Law, and Bette and Wylie Aitken, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law, Chapman University School of Law
After the Last Judgment: The Future of Middle East Constitutionalism
Thursday, October 27, 2011, 11:30 a.m.
- Catharine A. MacKinnon, Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Trafficking, Prostitution, and Inequality
Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 11:30 a.m.
- Walter E. Dellinger, lll, the Douglas B. Maggs Professor Emeritus of Law at Duke University School of Law
Lincoln, King and Mendez: The Quest for American Equality
Friday, December 2, 2011, 11:30 a.m.
SPRING 2012
- John Dean, former White House counsel and special keynote speaker at the Chapman Law Review Symposium
The 40th Anniversary of Watergate: A Commemoration of the Rule of Law
Friday January 27, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
- Peter H. Schuck, Simeon E. Baldwin Professor Emeritus of Law and Professor (Adjunct) of Law, Yale Law School
Immigration Policy: Myths and Realities
Thursday, March 15, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
