» Fowler School of Law Faculty in the News

December 2023

• December 22: Professor Tamara Alexander was named in the Orange County Register's 125 Most Influential People in Orange County.
• December 3: Professor Ernesto Hernández-López's op-ed column, "The US Push for GMO Corn is Out to Lunch," appeared in Common Dreams.

 November 2023

• Professor Ernesto Hernández-López's opinion piece “Opinión: La batalla del maíz entre México y Estados Unidos sobre cultivos transgénicos,” was published in the L.A. Times on November 17, 2023.

October 2023

• October 26: Professor Ernesto Hernández-López's essay “The U.S.-Mexico Corn Conflict is Popping Off,” appeared in Zócalo Public Square on Oct. 26, 2023.
• October 14: Professor Ernesto Hernández-López's essay “Lessons from México’s Ban on GMO Corn,” appeared in Latinoamérica21 on Oct. 14, 2023. This article also appeared ion the same platform in Spanish, and in Portuguese.

June 2023

• June 29: Professor Michael Bazyler's Ukrainian Mothers and Children Transport Initiative (UMACT) was featured along with a series of immigrant stories published by the American Bar Association to celebrate Immigrant Heritage Month.
• June 28: Professor Carrie Rosenbaum's latest article in the Denver Law review, Arbitrary Arbitrariness Review, has been picked up by Legal Theory Blog.
• June 27: Professor Richard Redding and co-editors Craig L. Frisby, William T. O'Donohue and Scott O. Lillienfeld have published a new textbook, Ideological and Political Bias in Psychology: Nature, Scope and Solutions, due to be released by Springer in August, 2023.

May 2023

• May 22: Professor Lan Cao published an article in the Chapman Law Review: Dollar Trap and China’s Central Bank Digital Currency, 25 Chapman L. Rev. 503 (Symposium) (2023).

April 2023

• April 21: Professor Ernesto Hernández-López wrote an op-ed published by Aljazeera: Drop it America and Canada: A corn clash with Mexico helps no one-A brewing dispute over Mexican restrictions on some corn imports will only hurt farmers on all sides.
• April 17: Professor James Phillips was quoted on the subject of religious liberties in the Reuters' article: Supreme Court considers Christian mail carrier's refusal to work Sundays.
• April 4: Professor Michael Bazyler's project Ukrainian Mothers and Children Transport (UMACT) and its work assisting Ukrainian refugees escape the war was part of a feature story in the LA Times.

March 2023

• March 23: Professor Mario Mainero was quoted by City News Service and published on the 2Urban Girls blog, in an article about a jailhouse killing in Orange County and whether the supervising deputy sheriffs should have been criminally charged with involuntary manslaughter for criminal negligence.

February 2023

• February 21: Professor Hugh Hewitt published and op-ed in the Washington Post: Ready or not AI is coming.

April 2022

• April 30: Professor Kenneth Stahl's The Urban Lawyer article "Home Rule and State Preemption of Local Land Use Control" was included in The Regulatory Review's Saturday Seminar on "Constraining Cities"
• April 20: Professor Lawrence Rosenthal was quoted in the Orange County Register article "Head of OC’s law enforcement watchdog agency to leave for Los Angeles DWP"
• April 13: Professor Tom Campbell published an op-ed in the Orange County Register titled "No, President Biden doesn’t have the authority to cancel student loan debt"

March 2022

• March 24: The discussion of Professor James Phillips' Virginia Law Review article "A Corpus Linguistics Analysis of 'Foreign Tribunal'" (co-authored with Jesse Egbert) during oral arguments in the Supreme Court case ZF Automotive US Inc v. Luxshare Ltd. was featured in the Reuters Legal article "Chief Justice Roberts not sure ‘what to make of’ linguistics tool"
• March 14: Professor James Phillips' Virginia Law Review article "A Corpus Linguistics Analysis of 'Foreign Tribunal'" (co-authored with Jesse Egbert) was featured in the Reuters Legal article "‘Revolutionary’ linguistics tool awaits star turn in Supreme Court arbitration case"

February 2022

• February 23: Professor Mario Mainero was quoted in the NBC Los Angeles/City News Service article "Orange County District Attorney Spitzer Hits Back at Accuser in Harassment Claim"
• February 16: Dean Marisa Cianciarulo was quoted in the Daily Journal article "ABA accredited law schools must offer anti-bias training" (subscription required)
• February 3: Professor Anthony T. Caso published an op-ed in the Times of San Diego titled "A Court Ruling Against Prop. 22 Is an Attack on Democracy in California"

January 2022

• January 10: Professor Tom Campbell published an op-ed in the Long Beach Press-Telegram titled "Setting the record straight on scheduled voting rights legislation"

December 2021

• December 27: Professor Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez was quoted (via Tweet) in the Above the Law article "Soccer Star Learns Lesson In 1L Contracts"
• December 13: Professor Anthony T. Caso published an op-ed in the Orange County Register titled "What’s at stake in the Uber/Lyft/DoorDash case?"
• December 10: Dean Marisa Cianciarulo was quoted extensively in the iNews (U.K.) article "Mexico truck crash: US must overhaul ‘racist and punitive’ migration approach, says expert as 54 people killed" 
• December 7: Dean Marisa Cianciarulo was quoted in The National Desk article "Report: Deportations down 90% from 2019 levels as Biden shifts priorities"

November 2021

• November 19: Professor Lawrence Rosenthal was quoted in the Orange County Register article "Rittenhouse acquittal won’t open door to shootings in California, legal experts say"
• November 18: Professor Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez published an op-ed titled "Why Seed Companies Fear México"
• November 11: Professor Hugh Hewitt published an op-ed in the National Review titled "John Roberts v. Roe"

October 2021

• October 19: Professor Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez published an op-ed on Latino Rebels titled "The Death of Neoliberal Corn in Mexico"
• October 8: Professor Lawrence Rosenthal was quoted in the Orange County Register article "Early personal attacks erupt in race for Orange County DA"
• October 7: Professor Anthony T. Caso published an op-ed in the Orange County Register titled "Appeals court must defend the right of initiative"

September 2021

• September 20: Professor Lawrence Rosenthal was quoted in the Law.com/The Recorder article "California State Judge's Recusal Highlights Complexities of Judicial Endorsements"

August 2021

• August 31: Associate Dean Marisa Cianciarulo appeared on tbs eFM This Morning (South Korea) in the segment "Analysis on the US Supreme Court's decision to reinstate 'Remain in Mexico' policy"
• August 25: Associate Dean Marisa Cianciarulo was quoted in the KATV/SBG article "With 'Remain in Mexico' order, Supreme Court challenges Biden on immigration"
• August 24: Professor Deepa Badrinarayana published an op-ed for Bloomberg Law titled "IPCC Report Drives Urgent Agenda for World on Climate Change"
• August 24: Professor Lawrence Rosenthal was quoted in the Associated Press article "Mistrial in Michael Avenatti’s California embezzlement case"
• August 13: Professor Lawrence Rosenthal was quoted in the Orange County Register article "New judge in the OC murder retrial of Paul Gentile Smith has potential conflict"
• August 13: Professor Mario Mainero was quoted in the Orange County Register article "A snitch and a high-powered prosecutor are at the center of a dismantled OC murder conviction"
• August 12: Professor Lawrence Rosenthal was quoted in the Voice of OC article "OC Murder Conviction Thrown Out as Misconduct Accusations Fly at High-Level Prosecutor"
• August 11: Professor Michael Bazyler was quoted in the Associated Press article "Poland passes law that would cut off property claims"

July 2021

• July 23: Professor Ken Stahl published an op-ed in Voice of OC titled "State Legislature’s Modest Efforts to Permit Increased Density in Residential Neighborhoods are Necessary Steps Toward Ending the State’s Housing Crisis"
• July 18: Professor Richard Redding was quoted in the Washington Post article "Lawsuits challenge D.C. law allowing kids to get vaccines without parental permission"
• July 6: Professor Binder was quoted in the Associated Press article "Building collapse lawsuits seek to get answers, assign blame"

June 2021

• June 29: Professor Tom Campbell published an op-ed in the Orange County Register titled "Federal health policy shouldn’t be left to the courts"
• June 29: Professor Lawrence Rosenthal was quoted in the Orange County Register article "Family of Tyler Skaggs files civil suits against Angels, two former employees"
• June 27: Professor Lawrence Rosenthal was quoted in the Orange County Register article "Gascón’s plan to cut decades-long prison term for juvenile tried as an adult met with opposition"

May 2021

• May 19: Professor Kurt Eggert's Chapman Law Review article "Originalism Isn’t What It Used to Be: The Nondelegation Doctrine, Originalism, and Government by Judiciary" was featured on The Originalism Blog.

April 2021

• April 27: Professor George Willis moderated an ABA Section of Taxation webinar entitled "Getting Facts Into a Remote Proceeding Tax Court Case" as part of its "Just the Facts" three-part series.
• April 20: Professor Richard Redding published an op-ed in the Orange County Register titled "Criminal justice after the pandemic"
• April 20: Professor Mario Mainero was quoted in the Orange County Register article "Here’s how Derek Chauvin was convicted of both murder and manslaughter"
• April 8: Professor Ron Steiner was quoted in the Voice of OC article titled "What Can Local Governments Do to Fight Climate Change? A Heck of a Lot, Say Experts" 
• April 2: Professor Lawrence Rosenthal was quoted in the Orange County Register article titled "OCDA Spitzer heeds warnings from Seal Beach mass killing as he considers death penalty in Orange shooting"

March 2021

• March 27: Professor Janine Kim was quoted in the Aljazeera article titled "Why hate crime convictions are so difficult to secure in US"
• March 17: Associate Dean Marisa Cianciarulo was quoted in the China Daily article titled "Migrant surge intensifies in US"
• March 8: Professor Marisa Cianciarulo appeared on the CBS Los Angeles news segment titled "Lawmakers Pushing for Enforcement of Gender Neutral Toy Departments At Big Box Stores"

February 2021

• February 22: Professor Anthony Caso published an op-ed in Law360 titled "Grocery 'Hero Pay' Mandates are Unfair and Likely Illegal" 

January 2021

• January 28: Professor Michael Bazyler was mentioned in The Globe and Mail article titled "The return of a Nazi-looted painting highlights the problems with Canada's art restitution policy"
• January 20: Professor Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez published “Films that resist” in Third World Approaches to International Law Review
• January 8: Professor Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez presented “Trade for Factory Farms in COVID Time: US-China Phase One and the USMCA,” on the panel "Law and Policy Measures to Achieve Equality in the Agricultural and Food System,” at the AALS 2021 Annual Meeting 
• January 8: Professor Lawrence Rosenthal was quoted in the Press-Enterprise article titled "Search is on to prosecute hundreds who broke into Capitol building"

December 2020

• December 7: Professor Susanna Ripken moderated "Corporate Legal Rights and Democracy" at Stanford Law's Conference on Corporations and Democracy

November 2020

• November 20-21: Professor Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez presented “Trade War, PPE, and Race” at the Business Law Scholars Roundtable, organized by American Society of International Law (ASIL) International Economic Law Interest Group and the Brooklyn Law School
• November 13: Professor Kenneth Stahl participated in the Texas A&M Property Law Journal Symposium, which focused on his recent book, Local Citizenship in a Global Age.
• November 10: Professor Mario Mainero was quoted in the Voice of San Diego article titled "New County Board and Sheriff Could Be Headed for a Standoff"
• November 9: Dr. Tom Campbell appeared on 94.1-FM KPFA's show "UpFront" 
• November 6: Professor Kenneth Stahl participated in the Iowa Law Review Symposium on the Future of Law and Transportation, speaking about his forthcoming paper “Incorporating Transportation Topics into the Land Use Curriculum."
• November 3: Dr. Tom Campbell was quoted in the LA Times article titled "Voters reject Prop. 16, which would have allowed affirmative action policies in California"

October 2020

• October 18: Dr. Tom Campbell was quoted in the Los Angeles Times article titled "Proposition 16 asks Californians to give affirmative action another try"
• October 13: Professor Mario Mainero was quoted in the Associated Press article titled "California GOP considers adding more disputed ballot boxes"

September 2020

• September 17: Professor Rosenthal was quoted in the Daily Pilot article titled "Amid movement against police brutality, former O.C. sheriff and convicted felon collects big pension"
• September 16: Professor Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez published an op-ed in Latino Rebels titled "Fighting GMO Corn, for Mexico's Soul"
• September 4: Dr. Tom Campbell appeared on "The State of California" podcast episode titled "The Common Sense Party"

August 2020

• August 28: Professor Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez published an op-ed in the Orange County Register titled "A trade war amid a pandemic means costly PPE for essential workers"
• August 7: Professor Tom Bell was featured in the Legal Examiner article titled "The Constitution’s ignored stepchild: the Third Amendment"
• August 6: Professor Denis Binder's research was quoted in The Christian Science Monitor article titled "Lebanon's post-blast embrace of reform"

July 2020

• July 28: Professor Mario Mainero co-authored an op-ed in the Voice of OC article titled "Response to Wagner"
• July 22: Professor Mario Mainero co-authored an op-ed in the Voice of OC article titled "The GOP is Self-Destructing"
• July 14: Dr. Tom Campbell published an article in the Orange County Register titled "A look back at Susan Rice’s Eritrea-Ethiopia diplomacy"
• July 13: Professor Mario Mainero was quoted in the Voice of OC article titled "As Restaurants Face Coronavirus Outbreaks, OC Puts Health Inspectors on the Sidelines" 
• July 2: Professor James Phillips published a guest post on PrawfsBlawg titled “Espinoza's Recasting of Trinity Lutheran Raises Religious Liberty Questions”

June 2020

• June 18: Associate Dean Marisa Cianciarulo was quoted in the LAist.com article titled "Does The Supreme Court Ruling on DACA Open Up Applications Again? Questions Remain"
• June 11: Professor Mario Mainero was quoted in the Voice of OC article titled "DA Spitzer Draws Fire From Judge Over Effort to Drop Rape Charges in High-Profile Case"

May 2020

• May 31: Professor Denis Binder was quoted in the Bridge Magazine (Michigan) article titled "Michigan should have protected public from unsafe Edenville Dam, experts say"
• May 20: Professor Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez published "En las Américas: Stories, Optimism, Spirits, and Justice" in Third World Approaches to International Law Review
• May 13: Professor James Phillips published a guest post at Reason.com titled "Three Interconnected Errors in the Our Lady Of Guadalupe Oral Arguments"

April 2020

• April 10: Dr. Tom Campbell was quoted in the Orange County Register article titled "The shaky case for ordering gun stores closed during the coronavirus outbreak"

March 2020

• March 22: Professor Mario Mainero was quoted in the Daily Breeze article titled "Walt Disney's grandson locked in legal battle for personal freedom, millions in inheritance"

February 2020

• Feb. 28: Professor James Phillips was quoted in The Atlantic article titled "The Mysterious Meaning of the Second Amendment"
• Feb. 27: Professor James Phillips was quoted in The New York Times Magazine article titled "How Will Trump's Supreme Court Remake America?"
• Feb. 6: Professor Mario Mainero was quoted in the Voice of OC article "Secrecy Around Sheriff Evidence Misconduct Records Heads to Court Thursday"
• Feb. 3: Dr. Tom Campbell published an op-ed in the Orange County Register titled "The House rushed, fumbled impeachment effort"

January 2020

• Jan. 28-29: Professor Mario Mainero was quoted in the Voice of OC articles "OC Supervisors Stay Silent on Evidence Misconduct Revelations While Authorizing More Sheriff Spending" and "At Least 91 Convictions Involved Missing Evidence, DA Says, Casting Doubt on Sheriff’s Statements"
• Jan. 16: Professor Kenneth Stahl was quoted in the Voice of OC article "Anaheim Hills Condo Vote Pushed to Late January"
• Jan. 14: Dr. Tom Campbell was quoted in the New York Times article "Trump’s Impeachment Trial a Perilous Duty for Chief Justice"
• Jan. 13: Dr. Tom Campbell published an op-ed in the Orange County Register titled "After Boise ruling, California has several options for addressing homelessness"
• Jan. 6: Dr. Tom Campbell published an op-ed in the Orange County Register titled "The US has undermined a trade system that worked for decades"

December 2019

• Dec. 9: Professor Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez presented the paper “GMO Corn in México: Precaution as Law’s Decolonial Option,” at the "What is Real about Law and Technology" workshop to Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia
• Dec. 4: Dr. Tom Campbell appeared on 94.1 KPFA to provide commentary during the station's special coverage of the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment inquiry into President Trump
• Dec. 4: Professor Mario Mainero was quoted in the Voice of OC article "OC Sheriff Kept Evidence Booking Crisis Secret for Almost Two Years"

November 2019

• Nov. 3: Professor Lawrence Rosenthal was quoted in the Law360 article "Indiana Justices Start To Clarify When Forfeiture Goes Too Far"

October 2019

• Oct. 31: Dr. Tom Campbell appeared on NPR's All Things Considered in a segment titled "How This Impeachment Inquiry Differs From The Last 2"
• Oct. 24-25: Professor Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez spoke on GMO corn and México at the 9th Annual Conference on Food Studies at the National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism in Taiwan
• Oct. 18: Professor Donald Kochan was quoted in the Bloomberg Environment article "Can Climate ‘Test Cases’ Move Forward? It’s Up to Supreme Court"
• Oct. 18-19: Professor Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez spoke on GMO corn and México at the LatCrit Annual Conference at the Georgia State College of Law
• Oct. 14: Dr. Tom Campbell was quoted in the Vox Recode article "Why the government is investigating Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook for antitrust — but not Microsoft"
• Oct. 9: Dr. Tom Campbell was quoted in the Bloomberg News article "Trump’s Roadblocks Force Democrats to Hone Impeachment Strategy"

September 2019

• Sept. 20: Professor Kurt Eggert was quoted in the Salt Lake Tribune article "California balks at considering casino license for men with ties to Utah polygamous sect, wants to know more about their finances"
• Sept. 18: Professor Donald Kochan appeared on the Aljazeera (English) television show The Stream in an episode entitled "Damaging the environment: Crime against humanity?"
• Sept. 2: The WESA 90.5 article "Vietnamese-American Author Pushes For More Diverse Perspectives On The War" discusses Professor Lan Cao's appearance at the Heinz History Center

August 2019

• Aug. 28: Professor Donald Kochan published an op-ed at RealClearPolitics entitled "Landmark Liability Case and the Common Law's Lament"
• Aug. 27: Professor Donald Kochan was quoted in the Legal Newsline article "Oklahoma judge feeds the 'monster' with $572M opioid ruling against Johnson & Johnson"
• Aug. 25: Dr. Tom Campbell published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times entitled "The perils of our $1-trillion deficit"
• Aug. 21: Professor Lan Cao's appearance at the Heinz History Center was previewed in the Observer-Reporter article "Cao to speak at Heinz History Center"
• Aug. 1: Professor Lawrence Rosenthal was quoted in the Voice of OC article "Sheriff’s Department Helps Vet the Grand Jurors Who Investigate It"

July 2019

• Professor Ernesto Hernández-López's review of Sugar and the Making of International Trade Law by Michael Fakhri was published in Vol. 19, No. 3 of Gastronomica: the Journal of Critical Food Studies.
• July 30: Professor Mario Mainero was quoted in the ABA Journal article "Thanks to email error, those taking California bar exam now know essay question topics."
• July 29: Professor Mario Mainero was quoted in the Voice of OC article "Santana: When Sheriff’s Deputies Take the Fifth."
• July 19: Professor Lawrence Rosenthal was quoted in the Orange County Register article "Deputy union accuses O.C. Sheriff’s Department of disciplining employees solely for invoking 5th Amendment right."
• July 17: Professor Lawrence Rosenthal was quoted in the Crain's Chicago Business article "The John Paul Stevens they knew."
• July 16: Professor Kurt Eggert was quoted in the Salt Lake Tribune article "One Kingston, who co-owns a California casino, wants to give his shares to another member of a Utah polygamous sect."
• July 8: Dr. Tom Campbell published an op-ed in the Press-Enterprise entitled "Guantanamo Bay prisoners and America’s perpetual war on terror."
• July 2: Professor Lawrence Rosenthal was quoted in the Voice of OC article "DA Records Refute Public Reason for Not Prosecuting Santa Ana Police Sgt. Gerry Serrano."

June 2019

• June 28: Professor Donald Kochan was quoted in the E&E News article "PR slugfest over climate litigation heats up."
• June 21: Professor Lawrence Rosenthal was quoted in the Long Beach Post article "Columnist says he was threatened over article about police, but DA says no crime."
• June 21: Dr. Tom Campbell appeared on the Peter Tilden show on 790AM KABC to discuss his June 17 Los Angeles Daily News op-ed, "The tricky politics of a US-Mexico deal on migration."
• June 19: Professor Donald Kochan was mentioned in the Washington Post article "Trump EPA finalizes rollback of key Obama climate rule that targeted coal plants."
• June 12: Pasadena Now previewed Dr. Tom Campbell's "War Powers and the Constitution" discussion at a June 20 Pasadena Republican Club meeting. 
• June 1: Professor Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez presented his paper "Detaining ISIS: Overseas habeas and the Phantom Menace," at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

May 2019

• May 10: Professor Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez spoke on GMO corn in México at the Annual Sustainability Conference of American Legal Educators at Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law in Phoenix, Arizona.
• May 2: Dr. Tom Campbell was quoted in the Bloomberg article "After Barr's Snub, Democrats Lack Options to Compel Cooperation."

April 2019

• April 30: Professor Lawrence Rosenthal was quoted in the Long Beach Post article "FBI paints picture of a committed mass killer drawn into bombing plot."
• April 27: Professor Kurt Eggert was quoted in the Salt Lake Tribune article "A family connected to a Utah polygamous sect owns a California casino, and regulators may end up shutting it down."
• April 24: Professor Donald Kochan's Florida State University Law Review paper, "The [Takings] Keepings Clause: An Analysis of Framing Effects From Labeling Constitutional Rights" was reviewed by Carol Necole Brown in the article "What’s in a Name? Apparently a Lot" on JOTWELL.
• April 23: Professor Kenneth Stahl was quoted in the New York Times article "Renters Are Mad. Presidential Candidates Have Noticed."
• April 22: Dr. Tom Campbell published an op-ed entitled "How the fight over the full Mueller report could lead to impeachment" in the Orange County Register.
• April 5: Professor Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez spoke on GMO corn in México at NYU School of Law's Race + Intellectual Property Conference.

March 2019

• March 8: Professor Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez spoke on GMO corn in México at UCLA Law's Critical Race Studies Symposium.

February 2019

• February 12: Professor Larry Rosenthal was quoted in the Voice of OC article "Sen. Kamala Harris Left It to OC to Handle Jailhouse Snitch Scandal."

January 2019

• January 22: Professor Donald Kochan was a panelist on “How Did the Framers View Executive Power? An Inquiry into the Scope of Executive Power and the Declaration of a National Emergency,” an event hosted by the Chapman Law School Federalist Society Student Chapter.
• January 5-6: Professor Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez was a presenter on two panels at the AALS Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana – the Agricultural and Food Law, Environmental Law and Natural Resources and Energy Law Sections Works-in-Progress panel and the International Human Rights Section (Co-Sponsored by International Law Section) New Voices in Human Rights Panel.
• January 5: Professor Abby Patthoff moderated the Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research Section’s New Scholars Showcase panel at the AALS Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.
• As of January 5, 2019, Professor Donald Kochan is now Chair of the AALS Real Estate Transactions Section for 2019.
• January 4: Professor Donald Kochan presented on “The Framing Effects of Labeling Constitutional Products,” on a 7-Minute Presentation of Works-in-Progress Panel at the 21st Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana.
• January 3: Professor Donald Kochan was a senior commenter for the Property Law Junior Faculty Works-in-Progress panel at the AALS Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.

December 2018

• Fowler Law Professor Donald Kochan was appointed as a Non-Resident Scholar of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution at the Georgetown University Law Center.

July 2018

• Professor Celestine McConville published “Is Demonstrated Animus Irrelevant After Trump v. Hawaii?” in Justia Verdict on July 9, 2018. 

• In an interview with Bike Citizens magazine on May 11, 2018, Professor Hernández discussed Los Angeles’ Mobility Plan 2035 and his recent article, “Bikes Lanes, Not Cars: Mobility and the Legal Fight for Future Los Angeles.”
• On May 11, 2018, Professor Ernesto Hernández presented “Precaution Over GMO Corn in México: Law Between Cortes’s Salvation and Quetzalcoatl Preservation” at the Fourth Annual Sustainability Conference of American Legal Educators at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law in Phoenix.

March 2018

• March 26, 2018, Professor Denis Binder published “Preliminary hearings and issue preclusion” in the Daily Journal.
• Professor Mario Mainero publishes “Elected DAs shouldn’t be so politically motivated,” in the Daily Journal (with Patrick Dixon) on March 23, 2018.
• Professor Ernesto Hernández presented "Guantánamo's Definite Legacy: Habeas Corpus in Overseas Detention (Illusive and Indefinite)" at the Indiana International and Comparative Law Review Symposium, titled, "The Law of Executive Power in International Relations," on March 23, 2018, at Indiana University’s Robert H. McKinney School of Law.
• Professor Ernesto Hernández-López moderated the panel “Sin Fronteras: Latino Issues in Immigration” sponsored by the Fowler School of Law Hispanic Law Students Association on March 14, 2018.
• On March 8, 2018, Professor John Eastman was a guest on an episode of the National Constitution Center podcast "We the People,” discussing workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation.

• On February 2, 2018, Professor Ernesto Hernández-López served as a paper commentator at Southern California International Scholars (SCILS) Workshop held at UCLA School of Law.

January 2018

• Professor Ernesto Hernández-López was selected to discuss his paper “GMO corn and the NAFTA” during a panel discussion on the topic “What Would a New NAFTA Look Like?” on January 6, 2018.  The panel was organized by the Section on North American Cooperation and held during the 2018 AALS Annual Meeting in San Diego, California. 
  
  

December 2017

• On December 16, 2017, Professor Lawrence Rosenthal was a guest on AirTalk, on Southern California Public Radio 89.3 KPCC.  A former federal prosecutor, Professor Rosenthal discussed the proper use of jailhouse informants and commented on the U.S. Justice Department’s announcement that it will investigate the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. 

• Associate Dean Donald Kochan was quoted in the article “The Energy 202: Legal battle over national monuments is just beginning,” published by The Washington Post on December 6, 2017.

• On December 6, 2017, Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed in The Washington Post entitled “Justice Ginsburg has some explaining to do.”

• A December 6, 2017 Associated Press (AP) wire story titled “Patagonia joins lawsuits challenging Trump’s monument plans” (reprinted by scores of news outlets across the country, including, for example, the Washington Post) featured comments by Associate Dean Donald Kochan citing his expertise on natural resources and administrative law.

November 2017

• Professor Ronald Rotunda served as a panelist, discussing “Professional Responsibility & Legal Education: Using the Licensing Power of the Administrative State: Model Rule 8.4(g),” on November 18, 2017, at the Federalist Society’s Annual National Lawyers Convention in Washington, D.C.

• Associate Dean Donald Kochan was a panelist on “Environmental Law & Property Rights: Environmental Law without Congress: Are Alternatives to Legislation Eclipsing the Congressional Role?” at the Federalist Society’s 2017 National Lawyers Convention in Washington, D.C. on November 18, 2017.

• Professor George Willis was quoted in PreLaw Magazine’s feature, “Top Schools for Tax Law and for Business, Banking and Corporate Law,” where the Fowler School of Law was recognized as one of the top law schools in the country for tax law.

• Professor Michael Bazyler was interviewed for an article entitled, “Lawyers from the USA: You are longing for the Communist Regime. You will pay us for the new reprivatization laws.”  The article discusses Professor Bazyler’s concerns about proposed legislation in Poland that among other provisions, would exclude some claimants from receiving restitution for private property seized during the Holocaust.  It was published on November 15, 2017, in the Gazeta Prawna (Legal Gazette), the leading legal newspaper in Poland.

• Professor Ernesto Hernández-López  presented “Precaution over GMO corn in México: law between Cortes’s salvation and Quetzalcoatl preservation,” at the ClassCrits X conference at Tulane University School of Law in New Orleans on November 10-11, 2017.

• Associate Dean Donald Kochan was named one of two ABA Section Advisors to the Uniform Law Commission Study Committee on Adverse Possession.

• Professor Tom W. Bell was quoted in an article entitled “Some believe access to internet is so crucial, it is a human right,” published by The Press-Enterprise on November 7, 2017.

• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an article entitled “Bitcoin and the Legal Ethics of Lawyers,” on the Verdict section of Justia.com on November 6, 2017.

• Fowler School of Law Dean Matt Parlow and Professor Vernon Smith were named as two of the 500 most influential business people in Orange County by the Orange County Business Journal.

• On November 3, 2017, The Wall Street Journal published in its Opinion section a letter from Professor Ronald Rotunda regarding an op-ed entitled “Begging Your Pardon, Mr. President.”

October 2017

• Professor Ernesto Hernández-López presented his paper "Bike Lanes, Not Cars: Mobility and the Legal Fight for Future Los Angeles,” at the State and Local Government Law Workshop at Golden Gate University School of Law on October 20-21, 2017.

• Associate Dean Donald Kochan was an invited panelist on “This Land is Whose Land? Renewed Legal Controversies Over Public Lands,” at the ABA Section of Environment, Energy and Resources' (SEER) 25th Annual Fall Conference, in Baltimore, Maryland, on October 19, 2017.

• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled “The Fall of Seriatim Opinions and the Rise of the Supreme Court” on the Verdict section of Justia.com on October 9, 2017.

• Associate Dean Donald Kochan was a discussant and moderator at the Property Implications of the Sharing Economy Workshop, co-sponsored by Penn State Law, the AALS Section on Property Law (of which Dean Kochan is chair), and the AALS Section on Commercial and Related Consumer Law in University Park, Pennsylvania, on October 6, 2017.

September 2017

• Professor Lan Cao published an article entitled “Five myths about the Vietnam War” in the Outlook section of The Washington Post on September 29, 2017.

• Professor Michael Bazyler was quote in a Handelsblatt Gobal article entitled “Poland’s Weak Hand” on September 12, 2017.

• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled “Can Robots Practice Law?” on the Verdict section of Justia.com on September 11, 2017.

August 2017

• Professor Michael Bazyler was quoted in The Washington Post article “Poland calls for reparations amid strains with Germany, EU,” published on August 30, 2017. [link no longer active] 

• Professor Mario Mainero co-authored an op-ed entitled “’Chronic obstruction’ of justice by the district attorney and sheriff is intolerable,” published by The Orange County Register on August 26, 2017.

• Professor Mario Mainero was interviewed on AM870’s "Sunday Morning Newsmakers" regarding the current Orange County District Attorney candidates on August 20, 2017.

• Professor Mario Mainero was quoted in The Orange County Register op-ed “Taxpayers are footing the bill for supervisors’ bad decisions” on August 20, 2017.

• Professor Ernesto Hernández-López was interviewed for an article entitled “Sriracha’s Public Nuisance: Interview with Professor Ernesto Hernández-López” in The Claremont Journal of Law and Public Policy.

• Associate Dean Donald Kochan's latest scholarly work, "The [Takings] Keepings Clause: An Analysis of Framing Effects from Labeling Constitutional Rights," was listed as "Recommended" on The Legal Theory Blog on August 16, 2017.

• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled “Indicting the President: President Clinton’s Justice Department Says No” on the Verdict section of Justia.com on August 14, 2017.

• Professor Rosenthal was quoted in an article entitled “Phone class may net defendant plus lawyer” and published in the Daily Journal.

• The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust hosted Professor Michael Bazyler for a book signing and lecture on August 13. Professor Bazyler discussed his book “Holocaust, Genocide, and the Law: A Quest for Justice in a Post-Holocaust World,” winner of the National Jewish Book Award for the Holocaust category.  

• Professor Mario Mainero was interviewed on “Inside OC with Rick Reiff” regarding Orange County’s criminal justice system. The episode was aired on KDOC and PBS-Socal.

July 2017

• Associated Dean Donald Kochan’s paper, “The Commenting Power: Agency Accountability through Public Participation,” was featured on July 28 in the “What We’re Reading This Week” section of The Regulatory Review’s The Regulatory Week in Review.

• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled “The President Can Be Indicted — Just Not by Mueller” in The Washington Post on July 27, 2017.

• Professor Ronald Rotunda was interviewed on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront" on July 24 regarding a memo written by Professor Rotunda in 1998.

• Associate Dean Donald Kochan published (with Jim Smith of Georgia Law) “When Inquiry Minds Ought to Know . . .” on inquiry notice in real estate transactions in the July/August 2017 issue of Probate & Property, the bi-monthly magazine of the American Bar Association’s Real Property, Trusts & Estates (“RPTE”) Law Section.

• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled “Can Lawyers, Politicians, and Lawgivers Go to Heaven?” on the Verdict section of Justia.com on July 17, 2017.  

June 2017

• Associate Dean Donald was quoted in an AP News article entitled “Lawsuits over new Utah monument to test president’s power” on June 29, 2017.

• Associate Dean Donald Kochan was quoted as an expert on natural resources-related Administrative Procedure Act issues regarding the WOTUS (Waters of the United States) Proposed Rule in Arien Wittenberg, Big legal question: Is Trump's WOTUS repeal 'reasoned'?, E&E News / Greenwire, June 28, 2017.

• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled “Beveridge’s Life of Marshall and its Relevance Today” on the Verdict section of Justia.com on June 19, 2017.

• Professor Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez presented his paper, "Food, Animals, and Constitution: California Bans on Pork, Foie Gras, Shark Fins, and Eggs" at 'Migrating Food Cultures Engaging Pacific Perspectives on Food and Agriculture’ organized by Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) and Agriculture, Food & Human Values Society (AFHS) at Occidental College in Los Angeles on June 15, 2017.

• A review of Professor Michael Bazyler’s book, Holocaust, Genocide, and the Law: A Quest for Justice in a Post-Holocaust World, was published on the front page of the June issue of the Association of Jewish Refugees Journal.

• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled “What You Didn’t Know About of Federal Income Tax” on the Verdict section of Justia.com on June 5, 2017. 

• Professor Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez presented his paper “Bicycles vs. Cars: Law’s Role in Automobility, the Example of Fix of the City v. Los Angeles” at at Law, Intersectionality, and the Next Wave of Social Movements in the Trump Era organized by Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty (CAPALF) and The Northeast People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference (NEPOC) on June 2, 2017.

May 2017

• Professor David Dowling published an article entitled “Let’s Make a Deal: Strategies and Techniques for Negotiating” in the spring edition of the American Bankruptcy Trustee Journal. 

• Professor Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez presented his paper, "Food, Animals, and Constitution: California Bans on Pork, Foie Gras, Shark Fins, and Eggs" at the Colorado Law School Summer Food Law Workshop, in Boulder on May 22, 2017. 

• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled “Lowering Marginal Tax Rates to Improve the Economy” on the Verdict section of Justia.com on May 22, 2017.

• Associate Dean Donald Kochan’s article "Same Base, Different Taste: The Cultural Ingredient in Property Law," originally published on JOTWELL, was highlighted on the Legal History Blog on May 18, 2017. 

• Professor Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez presented his paper, "Food, Animals, and Constitution: California Bans on Pork, Foie Gras, Shark Fins, and Eggs" at the Third Annual Sustainability Conference of American Legal Educators organized by Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law on May 12, 2017. 

• Professor Rotunda published an op-ed entitled “George Wallace at Harvard—The Good Old Days of Campus Free Speech” on the Verdict section of Justia.com on May 8, 2017.

• Professor and 1939 Society Law Scholar in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies Michael Bazyler led a study, commissioned by the European Shoah Legacy Institute, which found that a significant proportion of property stolen during the Holocaust has yet to be returned to its rightful owners. Read more. 

• Professor Lawrence Rosenthal was a panelist for Gun Violence and Trauma: A Public Health Response, a Los Angeles Town Hall Meeting hosted by the UCI Law Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy's Initiative for Studying Gun Violence and Trauma on May 5, 2017.

• Associate Dean Donald Kochan (co-editor of Jotwell's Property Section) published "Same Base, Different Taste: The Cultural Ingredient in Property Law" on JOTWELL, reviewing the article "Cultural Paradigms in Property Law" by Yale Law Professor Taisu Zhang.

• Associate Dean Donald Kochan was quoted regarding Justice Gorsuch’s views on Chevron deference, and its impact on a new administration changing agency rules, in a story by Elizabeth Shogren first appearing in the April 17, 2017 digital edition of High Country News as “Should Courts Defer to the Expertise of Agencies?” and later appearing in the May 1, 2017 print edition of High Country News under the headline “Shifting scales: How Neil Gorsuch and the Chevron doctrine could leave a lasting mark on the West’s lands and the environment.”

April 2017

• Professor Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez presented his paper “Food, Animals, and the Constitution: California Bans on Foie Gras, Shark Fins, and Eggs” at the Southern California Law and Social Science (SoCLASS) conference Law & Legitimacy at Claremont McKenna College on April 28, 2017. Watch the presentation.

• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled “Responding to the Banned Use of Chemical Weapons: When All Else Fails” on the Verdict section of Justia.com on April 24, 2017.

• Associate Dean Donald Kochan was a panelist on the “Law Professor’s Panel” at the ABA Real Property, Trust & Estate (RPTE) Law Section Spring Symposium in Denver, Colorado, April 21, 2017.

• Professor Denis Binder has created and launched a website, www.denisbinder.com, to share his research on disasters, campus violence, and civil rights incidents. Learn more.

• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled “An English Teacher Corrects Shakespeare” on the Verdict section of Justia.com on April 10, 2017. The article was also reprinted by Newsweek on April 16.

• Associate Dean Donald Kochan was quoted in an article entitled "On the national stage Gorsuch is more John Denver than Antonin Scalia" in the Colorado Springs Gazette on April 7, 2017.

March 2017

• Professor Julie Marzouk was quoted in an article entitled “Undocumented Victims of Domestic Violence Weigh Seeking Help Against Risk of Deportation” published by TheIntercept.com on March 29, 2017.

• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled “How to Drain the Swamp? Use a Flashlight” on the Verdict section of Justia.com on March 27, 2017. 

• Professor Ronald Rotunda’s article, Constitutionalizing Judicial Ethics: Judicial Elections after Republican Party of Minnesota v. White, Caperton, and Citizens United, 64 Ark. L. Rev. 1, 36 (2011), was cited and quoted by the Supreme Court of Wyoming in its March 7, 2017 opinion in the case of Inquiry Concerning Neely, 2017 WY 25 (Wyo. 2017). [link no longer active]

• Associate Dean Donald Kochan was quoted in a March 5, 2017 Associated Press story regarding U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch’s judicial philosophy and record on environmental and public lands cases. The article was carried by dozens of news outlets across the country, including, for example, in The Washington Post, CBS News, Yahoo News, the Miami Herald, the Houston Chronicle, the Idaho Statesman, the Lexington Herald-Leader, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and the Fresno Bee, to name a few.

February 2017

• Professor Ronald Rotunda’s Handbook on Constitutional Law (1978) (co-authored with John E. Nowak & J. Nelson Young)) was cited as an “enlightened treatise” in the February 23, 2017 opinion by the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in the case of Flanagan v. Harris, No. LA CV16-06164 JAK (ASx), 2017 WL 729788 (C.D. Cal. Feb. 23, 2017).

• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled “Visas: The Historical and Legal Precedent” on the Verdict section of Justia.com on February 27, 2017.

• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled “Protecting Top Secret Information, by the Secretary of State and by the Rest of the Government” on the Verdict section of Justia.com on February 20, 2017.

• Professor Julie Marzouk presented at County Wide Teach In on Immigration Rights, co-sponsored by Chapman University, the UCI Immigrants Rights Clinic, Western State College of Law, and Public Law Center in Santa Ana on February 9, 2017.

• Professor Julie Marzouk presented “Processing U Visas under the New Executive Orders on Immigration” at the Orange County Family Justice Center on February 15, 2017 as part of a CLE training co-sponsored by Chapman University Fowler School of Law, Western State College of Law, CAST (Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking), and ASISTA.

• Professor Julie Marzouk presented at an immigration town hall event sponsored by Congressman J. Luis Correa on February 24, 2017.

• Associate Dean Donald Kochan’s draft article, “The Symbiosis of Pride and Property,” was highlighted on Bookforum in its “Omnivore” section on February 18, 2017.

• Professor Anthony Caso published an op-ed entitled “Another chapter in California’s water wars” in the Daily Journal on February 10, 2017.

• Professor Hugh Hewitt was announced as a contributing opinion columnist for The Washington Post on February 6, 2017.

• Professor Tom Campbell was interviewed for The Orange County Register article “Immigration is more complex than Trump vs. them, former GOP congressman says” published on February 3, 2017.

January 2017

• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled “Everything, Anything, Is an Emolument” on the Verdict section of Justia.com on January 30, 2017.

• Professor Mario Mainero was interviewed by Larry Marino on AM870’s "Sunday Morning Newsmakers" about his op-ed regarding the Orange County District Attorney on January 29, 2017. 

• Professor Ronald Rotunda co-authored an op-ed entitled “The ‘emoluments’ suit v. Trump” published by N.Y. Post on January 28, 2017. 

• At the AALS Annual Meeting in January, the following Chapman Law faculty members received section committee service appointments:

  • Dean Matthew Parlow was elected to serve as the 2017 Chair of the State and Local Government Law Section.

  • Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development Donald Kochan was elected to serve as the 2017 Chair of the Property Law Section and as the 2017 Treasurer of the Real Estate Transactions Section.

  • Professor Lan Cao was re-elected to serve on the Executive Committees of the Economic Globalization and Governance Section and the International Law Section.

  • Professor Ernesto Hernández-Lopez was elected to serve on the Executive Committee of the Agricultural and Food Law Section.

  • Professor Wendy Seiden was selected to serve on the Planning Committee for the 2018 Conference on Clinical Legal Education.

  • Professor Kenneth Stahl was elected to serve as Treasurer of the State and Local Government Law Section.

• Professor Hugh Hewitt appeared on the PBS television show Charlie Rose on Tuesday, January 24 to discuss his new book, The Fourth Way: The Conservative Playbook For a Lasting GOP Majority (Simon and Schuster 2017). View interview.

• Professor Denis Binder presented a paper, "The Inability to Control Extreme Natural Hazards," at the 2nd Annual University of Washington School of Law Environmental Law Symposium, “Before the Big One: Readiness, Environmental Resilience, and Law for Megaquakes in the Pacific Northwest” on January 20, 2017.

• Professor Tom W. Bell served as Discussion Leader at a colloquium on “Hayek on Liberty,” co-sponsored by the Institute for Humane Studies and Liberty Fund on January 27-29, 2017, in Arlington, VA.

• Professor Lawrence Rosenthal participated as a speaker on the panel “False Confessions in Context” presented by the Section on Criminal Justice at the 2017 AALS Annual Meeting on January 7, 2017.

• Professor Bobby Dexter participated as a discussion group participant in the AALS Discussion Group “The Future of Tax Administration and Enforcement” at the 2017 AALS Annual Meeting on January 7, 2017.

• Professor Ernesto Hernández-Lopez moderated the panel "Food Justice as Interracial Justice" presented by the Section on Poverty Law and co-sponsored by the Section on Law, Medicine and Health Care at the 2017 AALS Annual Meeting on January 6, 2017.

• At the request of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Professor Ronald Rotunda provided on January 6, 2017, an expert legal ethics opinion letter (dated Jan. 6, 2017) to the Committee regarding the nomination of Senator Jeff Sessions to serve as Attorney General of the United States.

• Associate Dean Daniel Bogart participated as a speaker on the panel “Keeping the ‘Real’ in Real Estate Transactions: New Ideas, Best Practices, and Partnership Opportunities to Strengthen Teaching and Scholarship” presented by the Section on Real Estate Transactions at the 2017 AALS Annual Meeting on January 5, 2017.

• Professor David Dowling participated as a speaker on the panel “Using Technology to Unlock Engagement and Learning” presented by the Section on Teaching Methods and co-sponsored by the Section on Technology, Law and Legal Education at the 2017 AALS Annual Meeting on January 4, 2017. His presentation was highlighted on the Legal Skills Prof Blog on January 10, 2017. 

• Professor David Gibbs participated as a discussion group participant in the AALS Discussion Group “Introducing Leadership Development into the Law School Curriculum” at the 2017 AALS Annual Meeting on January 5, 2017.

• Associate Dean Donald Kochan moderated the panel “Property Law Works in Progress” presented by the Section on Property Law at the 2017 AALS Annual Meeting on January 4, 2017.

• Professor Julie Greenwald Marzouk moderated the AALS Discussion Group “The Central American Refugee Crisis: A Discussion of the Current Response and Evaluation of the U.S. Legal Obligations Under Domestic and International Law” at the 2017 AALS Annual Meeting on January 4, 2017.

• Professor Bobby Dexter’s article “The Hate Exclusion: Moral Tax Equity for Damages Received on Account of Race, Sex, or Sexual Orientation Discrimination” was recently published in Volume 13 of the Pittsburgh Tax Review.

• Professor Michael Bazyler published an op-ed entitled “Why Holocaust Survivors Still Need Help in the Fight for Justice” in Newsweek magazine on January 4, 2016.

• On January 2, 2017, Associate Dean Donald Kochan was interviewed regarding President Obama's recent National Monument designations, possible litigation by the State of Arizona, and the new Administration's likely response to recent monument designations on "The Show" on KJZZ 91.5, the National Public Radio (NPR) station in Phoenix.

December 2016

• Professor Denis Binder presented on The Increasing Application of Criminal Law in Disasters and Tragedies at the Cambridge Conference on Catastrophic Risk 2016, Clare College, University of Cambridge December 14, 2016.
• Professor Tom W. Bell presented "Special Jurisdictions, French Polynesia, and the Future of Seasteading," at the American Society of International Law, International Legal Theory Interest Group Annual Symposium: The Future of the State, December 8, 2016, Washington, DC.
• Professor Tom Bell's article "Special Economic Zones in the United States: From Colonial Charters, to Foreign-Trade Zones, Toward USSEZs" was published in Volume 64 of the Buffalo Law Review.
• Professor Mario Mainero published an op-ed entitled County deserves more from OCDA in The Orange County Register on December 31, 2016.
• Professor Lawrence Rosenthal was interviewed regarding the use of jailhouse informants on 89.3 KPCC's Air Talk on December 16, 2016.
• Professor Rotunda's 2016 Heritage Foundation Legal Memorandum memo on The ABA Decision to Control What Lawyers Say: Supporting Diversity But Not Diversity of Thought was cited by the Attorney General of Texas in his December 20, 2016 Texas Attorney General's Opinion No. KP-0123 regarding Whether adoption of the American Bar Association's Model Rule of Professional Conduct 8.4(g) would constitute a violation of an attorney's statutory or constitutional rights (RQ-0128-KP).
• Professor John Eastman discussed the history and purpose of the Electoral College as a guest on 790 KABC's McIntyre in the Morning Show with Doug McIntyre on December 19, 2016.
• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled The Electoral College Works Fine, Just as It Is on the Verdict section of Justia.com on December 5, 2016.

November 2016

• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled "Labeling Moderate Muslims As Anti-Muslim Extremists" on the Verdict section of Justia.com on November 21, 2016.
• Professor Tom W. Bell presented a case for diverse ideas and unpopular perspectives on college campuses in a talk titled Free Speech or Weak Speech? at Texas A&M International University on November 18, 2016; and he was a Faculty Partner, Undergraduate Colloquium on "Freedom of Speech," a Regional Conference on Free Speech and Open Inquiry on Campus sponsored by the Institute for Humane Studies, Texas A&M Int'l University, Laredo, TX, November 19, 2016.
• Professor Henry Noyes published an op-ed entitled Go high, Clinton supporters⛁ in the Los Angeles Daily Journal and San Francisco Daily Journal on November 17, 2016. 
• Professor and Director of Law Graduate Programs Ron Steiner published an op-ed entitled Electoral College has lost its way in the Los Angeles Daily Journal and San Francisco Daily Journal on November 16, 2016.
• Professor Mario Mainero was quoted in an Orange County Register article Did O.C. prosecutors hide witness' schizophrenia in murder trial? on November 15, 2016.
• On November 11, 2016,;Associate Dean Donald Kochan presented a paper on Invisible Trespass and the Limits of the Law: When Augmented Reality-Gaming Uses Other People's Property as Its Playing Board, at the; Whittier Law Review Symposium on Emerging Dilemmas in Entertainment Law: Resolving Technology's New Ethical Concerns.
• Professor Ronald Rotunda's Handbook on Constitutional Law (1978) (co-authored with John E. Nowak & J. Nelson Young)) was cited in the November 7, 2016 opinion by the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska in the case of Thompson v. Dauphinais, No. 3:15-cv-00218-TMB, 2016 WL 6602419 (D. Alaska Nov, 7, 2016).
• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled When Courts and the Executive Branch Are in Charge of Appropriations on the Verdict section of Justia.com on November 7, 2016.
• Professor Tom Campbell was interviewed by ABC Channel 7 for a news segment entitled Election Day Could Signal GOP to Democrat Shift for Orange County on November 1, 2016.
• Professor Ronald Rotunda was quoted in The Wall Street Journal's Election Offers Stark Choices on Supreme Courts Future on November 1, 2016.

October 2016

• On October 28, 2016, Professor Ronald Rotunda's expertise was acknowledged by both the majority and dissenting opinions in the case, before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, of In re Bundy, No. 16-72275, 2016 WL 6311104 (9^th Cir. Oct. 28, 2016). The majority mentioned his affiliation with Chapman University School of Law in the text and continued by relying on Rotunda's opinion given that he is well known in academic circles for his expertise in legal ethics and constitutional law; The dissent similarly discussed Rotunda's relevant opinion letter, giving it special attention because Rotunda is an expert on legal ethics.
• Associate Dean Donald Kochan presented on Property Law Innovations for Conservation Facilitation at two venues this month on October 27, 2016, at Michigan State University College of Law at an event co-sponsored by the student chapters of the Bull Moose Conservation Law Society and the Federalist Society; and on October 28, 2016, at a gathering of the Grand Rapids (Michigan) Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society held at the law firm Mika Meyers PLC.
• Associate Dean Donald Kochan published an op-ed entitled Take heart voters: No matter who gets elected, the president can't destroy the republic in the Los Angeles Times on October 27, 2016.
• Professor Denis Binder's article "The Increasing Application of Criminal Law in Disasters and Tragedies: A Global Phenomenon" was published in Volume 38 of the Western New England Law Review.;
• Professor Lawrence Rosenthal was quoted in The Orange County Register article O.C. prosecutors turn to YouTube to re-argue case against Kenneth Clair in court of public opinion⛁ published on October 26, 2016.
• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled The ABA's New Rules Mandating Diverse CLE Panels on the Verdict section of Justia.com on October 24, 2016.
• Professor Tom Campbell spoke on improving government and politics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University on October 18, 2016. Watch his presentation online.;
• Professor Marisa Cianciarulo taught an Immigration 101 Legal Education Workshop presented by Restoration Law Center for the District 9 Public Interest Law Institute on October 19, 2016.
• Professor Tom Campbell was featured in a San Francisco Chronicle article entitled Ex-South Bay congressman on Libertarian's list for high court on October 19, 2016 and a National Law Journal article entitled News to Them: Gary Johnson Names 2 Law Profs as His SCOTUS Picks[link no longer active] on October 14, 2016.
• Professor Mario Mainero co-authored an op-ed, entitled An Inverse Prop 8 For California, published by Real Clear Policy on October 18, 2016.
• Professor Anthony Caso was quoted in the Daily Journal article Court's downgrading of CFPB's independence seen as victory for business on October 12, 2016.
• Professor Sam Ernst's article "Why Patent Exhaustion Should Liberate Products (and Not Just People)" was published in Volume 93 of the Denver Law Review.;
• Professor Henry Noyes's article "Direct Democracy as a Legislative Act" was recently published in Volume 19 of the Chapman Law Review.
• Professor Kenneth Stahl's article, "Local Home Rule in the Time of Globalization" was published in Volume 2016 of the Brigham Young University Law Review.
• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled Federal Investigations of Possible Corrupt Agreements by State Attorneys General who Threaten Criminal Prosecutions on the Verdict section of Justia.com on October 10, 2016.
• An article entitled The ABA Decision to Control What Lawyers Say: Supporting Diversity But Not Diversity of Thought By Professor Ronald Rotunda was published by The Heritage Foundation on October 6, 2016.
• On September 16, 2016, Associate Dean Donald Kochan's forthcoming article, I Share, Therefore It's Mine,⛁ 51 University of Richmond Law Review __ (forthcoming 2017), was highlighted as an "interesting paper" on the Copyhype Blog.
• Associate Dean Donald Kochan published an op-ed entitled Midnight monuments on The Hill's Congress Blog on October 3, 2016.

September 2016

• Professor Frank Doti's textbook Contract Law, Flowcharts and Cases: A Visual Guide to Understanding Contracts, which is used by students, professors and lawyers worldwide, was published in its fourth edition this summer. Read more. 
• Professor Rotunda published an op-ed entitled "What the Last Eight Years of Federal Government Intervention in the National Economy Has Wrought" on the Verdict section of Justia.com on September 26, 2016.
• Professor John Eastman's article "No Free Lunch, but Dinner and a Movie (And Contraceptives for Dessert)?" was published in Volume 10, Number 7 of the New York University Journal of Law & Liberty. Read more.
• Associate Dean Donald Kochan was quoted in the Wall Street Journal regarding his natural resources specialization and expertise on national monuments in a September 23, 2016 commentary piece by Naomi Riley titled Utah's Native Tribes Want Jobs, Not Federal Paternalism.
• Associate Dean Donald Kochan participated in a teleforum (with Colorado Law Professor Charles Wilkinson) on Midnight Monuments: The Antiquities Act and the Executive Authority to Designate National Monuments, an event sponsored by the Federalist Society on September 23, 2016.; The event is now available as a podcast.
• Professor Michael Bazyler's book Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust was reviewed in Volume 30, Issue 2 of the journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. ;
• Professor Marisa Cianciarulo's article Refugees in Our Midst: Applying International Human Rights Law to the Bullying of LGBTQ Youth in the United States was published in Volume 47, Number 2 of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review. Read more.;
• Professor John Eastman participated as a delegate from California in the Article V Convention of States Historic Simulation, the first simulated constitutional amendments convention ever held pursuant to Article V of the Constitution, in historic Williamsburg, Virginia September 21-23, 2016.
• Professor Lan Cao's forthcoming article Currency Wards and the Erosion of Dollar Hegemony was featured on the Legal Theory Blog on September 16, 2016.
• Professor Ronald Rotunda testified before the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology on an investigation into Exxon Mobil on September 14, 2016. His testimony was covered in an article entitled A Red Scare' tactic or standing up for ExxonMobil on climate change? published by The Washington Post and Are Subpoenas on Exxon Mobil Inquiries Valid? Experts Say Yes, and No published by The New York Times on September 14, 2016.
• Professor Anthony Caso published an op-ed entitled Rule for student debt forgiveness could threaten colleges and spur lawsuits in the Los Angeles Times on September 13, 2016.
• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled Forcing Lawyers to Perform Pro Bono Services, Part II on the Verdict section of Justia.com on September 12, 2016.
• Professor Lawrence Rosenthal published an article entitled The Court after Scalia: Fourth Amendment jurisprudence at a crossroads on the SCOTUSblog on September 9, 2016.
• Donald Kochan's recent draft article on the sharing economy and what it means to "share" was highlighted on the Land Use Prof Blog on September 9, 2016.
• Professor Denis Binder's article Can We Secure the Hallowed Halls of Academe? was published in Volume 26, Number 2 of the Regent University Law Review. Read more.
• Professor Susanna Ripken's article Paternalism and Securities Regulation was published in Volume 21 of the Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance. Read more.;
• Professor Lawrence Rosenthal has filed a brief in the United States Supreme Court;on behalf of the National Association of Counties, the National League of Cities, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, the International City/County Management Association, and the International Municipal Lawyers Association in Manuel v. City of Peoria. This case presents the question whether there is a cause of action under the Fourth Amendment for an alleged municipal prosecution that an individual can bring after a criminal case has terminated. The brief argues that no such claim exists because the Fourth Amendment addresses unreasonable search and seizure, not unwarranted or malicious prosecutions. The brief also argues that the claim pressed by the petitioner in this case would be plaintiffs to bring stale claims many years after an underlying search or seizure has occurred, prejudicing the ability of state and local governments to be able to mount a fair defense.
• Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development Donald Kochan's article The Progression and Evolution of International Law Scholarships over the Past 50 Years: Some Quantitative Observations was published in Volume 22 of the Buffalo Human Rights Law Review. Read more. 
• Professor Ernesto Hernandez' expertise on food law was recognized on the ImmigrationProf Blog on September 3, 2016, in a post where U.C. Davis Law School Dean Kevin Johnson explained that "Professor Ernesto Hernandez (Chapman) is the leading scholar on the law and society of taco trucks."

August 2016

• Professor Ronald Rotunda was quoted in an ABA Journal article entitled Tim Kaine article struggled with ethics of striking jurors based on race, acknowledged he did it on August 30, 2016.
• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled The ABA Wants Copyright Royalties From Authors Who Publish the Law on the Verdict section of Justia.com on August 29, 2016.
• On August 8, 2016, over at Brian Leiter's Law School Reports, Professor Ronald Rotunda was listed as one of the most highly-cited scholars [between 2010-2014] who work partly in the area of Legal Ethics/Legal Profession.
• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled The ABA Overrules the First Amendment in The Wall Street Journal on August 16, 2016.
• Professor Mario Mainero was quoted in The Orange County Register's article Judge at center of jailhouse informant controversy ponders a new removal his own on August 15, 2016.
• Professor Mario Mainero's article We Should Not Rely on Commercial Bar Reviews to Do Our Job: Why Labor-Intensive Comprehensive Bar Examination Preparation Can and Should Be a Part of the Law School Mission was published in Volume 19 of the Chapman Law Review. Read more.
• Professor Ronald Rotunda was recognized in the 23^rd edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the practice area of Ethics and Professional Responsibility Law. This is the seventh consecutive year that Professor Rotunda has been included in the list.
• Professor David Gibbs was recognized in the 23^rd edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the practice area of Arbitration and Mediation. Professor Gibbs has been listed in Best Lawyers for three years in the Los Angeles area and for several years previously in Boston.
• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled Imposing Criminal Punishment by Introducing False Testimony on the Verdict section of Justia.com on August 15, 2016.
• Professor Lawrence Rosenthal was quoted in an article entitled Under DOJ scrutiny, Baltimore police practice of clearing corners draws ire and praise in The Baltimore Sun on August 13, 2016.
• The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia decided last week to reinstate a lawsuit in an appeal in which Fowler School of Law's Constitutional Jurisprudence Clinic served as co-counsel. The case addresses whether the IRS targets conservative groups seeking nonprofit status. The clinic represented the voting rights group True the Vote. Read more.
• Professor Michael Bazyler co-authored an op-ed entitled Poland must return property confiscated in Holocaust to rightful owners in Newsweek on August 6, 2016.
• Professor Ronald Rotunda's article Vertical Federalism, the New State's Rights, and the Wisdom of Crowds was published in Volume 11 of the Florida International University Law Review. Read more.;
• Professor Mario Mainero was interviewed on AM 870's Politics, and Issues and Candidates with Larry Marino on August 7, 2016.
• Associate Dean Donald Kochan's recent draft article on the sharing economy I Share, Therefore It's Mine was described as interesting and recommended on the Legal Theory Blog, August 10, 2016.;
• Professor Lawrence Rosenthal was quoted in an article entitled O.C. District Attorney disputes part of papering ruling published in The Orange County Register on August 2, 2016
• Associate Dean Donald Kochan's article "Deeds and the Determinacy Norm: Insights from Brandt and Other Cases on an Unarticulated, Yet Ever-Present Interpretive Method"was published in Volume 43 of the Florida State University Law Review.;
• Professor Bart Wilson's article Humankind in Civilization's Extended Order: A Tragedy, The First Part was published in Volume 23 of Supreme Court Economic Review. Read more.
• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled Judges Excoriating Other Judges for Using Terms of Art They Don't Like: The Comments of Richard Posner on the Verdict section of Justia.com on August 1, 2016.
• Professor Lan Cao published an essay entitled Culture change for women in Afghanistan on the Oxford University Press blog on August 1, 2016.

July 2016

• In July 2016, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development Donald Kochan was appointed by the American Law Institute (ALI) to serve as one of a select group of Advisers for the Restatement of the Law Fourth, Property; one of the most recent restatement projects initiated by ALI.
• Professor Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez was interviewed for the Food Non-Fiction podcast in an episode entitled The Sriracha Story on July 26, 2016. [link no longer active]
• Professor Anthony Caso published an op-ed entitled Department of Education's New Fraud Defense to Loan Repayment Will Spur Spurious Lawsuits on the TaxProf Blog on July 25, 2016.
• Associate Dean Donald Kochan's article Virtual Liquid Networks and Other Guiding Principles for Optimizing Future Student-Edited Law Review Platforms was featured on the Law Professor Blogs Network on July 18, 2016.
• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled Forcing Lawyers to Perform Pro Bono Services on the Verdict section of Justia.com on July 18, 2016.
• Professor Ronald Rotunda was quoted in the article Attack in France Raises Security Concerns for Justices published by Law.com on July 15, 2016. [link no longer active]
• During the month of July 2016, Associate Dean Donald Kochan is serving as a Lone Mountain Fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) in Bozeman, Montana. On July 13, Dean Kochan presented a workshop at PERC on "The Law & Economics of Pride & Property."
• Professor Ronald Rotunda was quoted in an article entitled The Public Feud of Ginsburg vs. Trump casts harsh spotlight on court's liberal lion published by MSN News on July 13, 2016, and Judging Justice Ginsburg's Trump Mea Culpa published by The Wall Street Journal on July 14, 2016.
• Professor Janine Kim's article Racial Emotions and the Feeling of Equality was featured on the Legal Theory Blog on July 12, 2016.;

June 2016

• Professor Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez presented the paper Fix the City v. Los Angeles: protecting automobility, fighting bikes and others, at the 3rd Annual International & Comparative Urban Law Conference at the Fordham Urban Law Center, University of Hong Kong (HKU), on June 29, 2016. He also moderated a panel entitled Urban Housing: Through a Comparative Legal Lens at the conference.
• Professor Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez presented the paper California eaters vs the Constitution: commerce clause predictions from foie gras, shark fins, and eggs at the Law and Society Association's Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA, in June 2016.
• Professor Mario Mainero was quoted in an article entitled County rejects $10 million claim by defense lawyer injured in courthouse fight in The Orange County Register on June 21, 2016.
• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled Increased Controversy Over the Future of American Law Institute on the Verdict section of Justia.com on June 20, 2016.
• Professor Nancy Schultz was recently elected president of the International Academy of Dispute Resolution.;
• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled The Fifth Justice on the Verdict section of Justia.com on June 6, 2016.
• Professor Ronald Rotunda was quoted in The Wall Street Journal article entitled Trump Says Judge's Mexican Heritage Presents Absolute Conflict published on June 3, 2016.
• Professor Mario Mainero co-authored an op-ed entitled Measure A is a Good Idea Whose Time Has Come on the VoiceofOC.org on June 2, 2016.

May 2016

• Professor Nancy Schultz was invited to present at the Public and Private Justice Program in Dubrovnik, Croatia in May 2016. Her presentation was titled Arbitration: Is it Unfair to Consumers?
• Professor Nancy Schultz was invited as a guest lecturer for a course in American Civil Procedure at Maasrticht University in Maastricht, Netherlands in May 2016.
• Professor Mario Mainero co-authored an op-ed entitled Time, again, to clean up O.C. politics with Chapman University Professor Fred Smoller and published in The Orange County Register on May 28, 2016.
• Associate Dean Donald Kochan's recent essay on Virtual Liquid Networks and Other Guiding Principles for Optimizing Future Student-Edited Law Review Platforms, 32 Touro Law Review 263 (2016) (Associate Deans Symposium) was highlighted in the May 27, 2016 Weekly Legal Education Roundup at TaxProf Blog.
• Professor Ronald Rotunda was quoted in an article entitled Judge Rebukes DOJ Lawyers for Being Intentionally Deceptive in Amnesty Case published by CNSNews.com on May 26, 2016.
• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled Prosecutors Coercing Defendants to Contribute to the Prosecutor's Favorite Charities on the Verdict section of Justia.com on May 23, 2016.
• Professor David Dowling traveled to Ireland to lead a training in mediation hosted by the Law Society of Ireland on May 14, 2016.
• Professor Kurt Eggert testified at a hearing before the;House Energy and Commerce Committee;on May 12, 2016.
• Professor Tom Campbell's op-ed in The Orange County Register was featured in the LA Times article Commentary: Let's examine refinancing N.B. Civic Center debt on May 11, 2016.
• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, the Man Who Murdered Kitty Genovese on the Verdict section of Justia.com on May 9, 2016.
• Associate Dean Donald Kochan was a speaker at the Ballot Issues Conference, Students for Liberty Spring Focus Series (regional conference), at California State University-Dominguez Hills on April 30, 2016.
• Professors Mario Mainero and Tom Campbell co-authored an op-ed entitled Measure A panel would enforce O.C. ethics statutes published in The Orange County Register on May 5, 2016.
• Professor Lawrence Rosenthal was quoted in an article entitled The Citigation Phenomenon: Municipalities Teaming up With Plaintiffs Firms to File Suits in The Wall Street Journal on May 3, 2016.
• Professor Marisa Cianciarulo was interviewed on NBCLA nightly news on May 3, 2016, regarding a discrimination lawsuit against an Orange County restaurant.
• Professor Mario Mainero was interviewed on AM870's radio show Politics, Issues & Candidate with Larry Marino on May 1, 2016.
• Professor Denis Binder published an article entitled (The Idiot's Guide to) Cybersecurity for Lawyers  in Orange County Lawyer Magazine's May 2016 issue.

April 2016

• Professor John Eastman spoke on April 20, 2016 on the opening panel of the international Resource Bank conference on the effect Justice Scalia's untimely death will have on the Supreme Court and the cases being decided this term.
• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an article entitled Chilling Scientific Inquiry on the Verdict section of Justia.com on April 19, 2016.
• Professor John Eastman spoke on federalism and immigration at the National Association of Attorneys General conference in Atlanta, Georgia on April 18, 2016.
• Professor Henry Noyes was quoted in The Orange County Register article House candidate Dunn dealt setback in bar lawsuit, but battle continues on April 15, 2016.
• Professor John Eastman argued before the D.C. Circuit in one of the major IRS scandal cases, True the Vote v. IRS, et al., on April 14, 2016.
• Professor David Dowling received a five-year grant from the County of Riverside Probation Office to fund a new Restorative Justice Clinic as part of the expanding Mediation Clinic. 
• Professor Lawrence Rosenthal's article Compulsion was highlighted on the Legal Theory Blog on April 15, 2016.
• Professor John Eastman spoke about True the Vote v. IRS on the Federalist Society's Federalism & Separation of Powers Practice Group Podcast on April 14, 2016.
• Professor Kenneth Stahl was featured in WalletHub's recent article 2016's Cities with the Most Efficient Public Spending.
• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled Alcoholics and the Profession of Law on the Verdict section of Justia.com on April 12, 2016.
• Professor Tom Caso published an op-ed entitled Implications of the Friedrichs Non-Decision on The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies blog on April 8, 2016.
• Professor Tom Caso published an op-ed entitled Political ambition and the death of liberty in The Orange County Register on April 7, 2016.
• Professor Tom W. Bell's Book Talk presentation on his recently published book Intellectual Privilege: Copyright, Commons Law, and the Common Good was featured in The Orange County Register on April 4, 2016.
• Professor Tom Campbell published an op-ed entitled Making the buck stop with candidates in The Orange County Register on April 2, 2016.

March 2016

• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled Judges Coercing Lawyers to Donate to Charities on the Verdict section of Justia.com on March 28, 2016.
• Professor Tom Campbell published an op-ed entitled Dam figures to revolutionize Ethiopia in The Orange County Register on March 26, 2016.
• Professor Mario Mainero was quoted in the LA Times article entitled Barbara Venezia: County voters may have say in campaign reform on March 24, 2016.
• Professor Julie Marzouk recently received California Lawyer's CLAY Attorney of the Year Award for immigration. Marzouk was one of nine attorneys receiving the award for their role in bringing about a major development for transgender rights.
• Professor Tom Campbell was quoted in the ABC News article "US Antitrust Lawsuit Aims to Block California Newspaper Sale" on March 18, 2016.
• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled The Wages of Crying Wolf" on the Verdict section of Justia.com on March 14, 2016.
• Professor Tom Campbell published an op-ed entitled "Hillary learned the lesson of Watergate" in The Orange County Register on March 13, 2016.
• Professor Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez presented his paper entitled California eaters vs the Constitution: predictions after downer slaughter, foie gras, shark fins, and eggs at the University of California Global Food Initiative's Food Equity Symposium at UC Irvine School of Law on March 11-12, 2016.
• Professor Michael Bazyler's book Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust (New York University Press, 2014, soft cover 2015; co-authored by Frank M. Tuerkheimer) was recently reviewed by the Jewish Book Council.
• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled Don't cloister the justices: Opposing view in USA Today on March 7, 2016.
• Professor Tom Campbell published an op-ed entitled The demise of the much-maligned sequester in The Orange County Register on March 5, 2016.
• Associate Dean Donald Kochan's article Bubbles (Or, Some Reflections on the Basic Laws of Human Relations) was mentioned in the Book Forum article Moment isn't over on March 2, 2016.
• Professor Denis Binder's article The Increasing Application of Criminal Law to Disasters and Tragedies was published in the American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources Winter 2016 edition of Natural Resources & Environment.

February 2016

• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled What Does Ancient Athens Have to Do With University Protestors? on the Verdict section of Justia.com on February 29, 2016.
• Professor Tom Campbell published an op-ed entitled Chapman expert: Supreme Court not in gridlock, but major cases may hinge on election in The Orange County Register on February 29, 2016.
• Professor Hugh Hewitt served as a co-panelist for the Republican presidential primary debate on February 25, 2016. This is the third time that Professor Hewitt has participated in the presidential debates as a co-panelist.
• Professor Tom Campbell published an op-ed entitled We all could be hurt by squeeze on Apple in The Orange County Register on February 25, 2016.
• Professor Mario Mainero published an article entitled Voters Themselves Can Spur Government Ethics This June on the VoiceofOC.org on February 25, 2016.
• Professor Lawrence Rosenthal and Judge Abner J. Mikva published an op-ed entitled Effective Firearms Regulation is Constitutional in the New York Times on February 24, 2016.
• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled Nino Scalia, R.I.P. on the Verdict section of Justia.com on February 22, 2016.
• Professor Lawrence Rosenthal was quoted in The Orange County Register article entitled Lying during negotiations: Business tactic or fraud? on February 20, 2016.
• Professor Tom Campbell published an op-ed entitled Obama's options for high court choice: Go nonpolitical or go home in The Orange County Register on February 20, 2016.
• Professor Ronald Rotunda was quoted in an article entitled Supreme Court justices are rock stars. Who pays when the justices travel around the world? published by The Washington Post on February 19, 2016.
• Professor Samuel Ernst spoke on "Finding the Limits of Exhaustion" at the Denver Law Review's symposium, Future World IP: Legal Responses to the Tech Revolution.
• Professor Lawrence Rosenthal was quoted in The Orange County Register article In wake of jailhouse informant scandal, finding the next public defender is being watched closely on February 15,2016.
• Professor Mario Mainero was quoted in the Los Angeles Times article Why ex-L.A. Sheriff Lee Baca gets to keep his pension even if he goes to jail for lying and in the Los Angeles Daily News article Will guilty plea impact Baca's pension?, each published on February 12, 2016.
• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an article entitled Punishing Politically Incorrect Thought on FlashReport.org on February 10, 2016.
• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled Crossing the Bar: Notable Lawyers Who Left Us in 2015 on the Verdict section of Justia.com on February 1, 2016.

January 2016

• Associate Dean Donald Kochan was a panelist on Federalism, the Environment, Land Use, and Energy Independence at the Tenth Annual Federalist Society Western Chapters Conference on Federalism and Freedom, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, on January 30, 2016.
• Professor Ronald Rotunda's article O Direito De Dissidência E A Dívida Dos Estados Unidos Com Heródoto E Tucídides was published in the Journal of Institutional Studies.
• Professor John Eastman spoke on Federalism and Religious Liberty at the 2016 Federalist Society Western Regional Conference on January 30, 2016.
• On January 22, 2016, Associate Dean Donald Kochan was elected as a new member of the American Law Institute (ALI)  the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and improve the law, which elects eminent judges, lawyers, and law professors. . . selected on the basis of professional achievement and demonstrated interest in improving the law and where membership is a distinct professional honor, and the number that may be elected is limited to 3,000 (not including life, honorary, and ex-officio members).
• On January 21, 2016, the Marijuana Law, Policy, & Reform Blog (a member of the Law Professors Blogs Network) highlighted Associate Dean Donald Kochan's notable article on Incumbent Landscapes, Disruptive Uses: Perspectives on Marijuana-Related Land Use Control, currently available on SSRN and to be published later this year in Texas A&M School of Law's Journal of Property Law.; Dean Kochan's article was also mentioned on the PropertyProf Blog on January 4, 2015.
• Professor Ernesto Hernández-López's article entitled Sriracha: Lessons from the Legal Troubles of a Popular Hot Sauce was published in Volume 15, Number 4 of Gastronomica: the Journal of Critical Food Studies.;
• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled Guilty. Now Pay the . . . Donation in The Wall Street Journal on January 19, 2016.
• Professor Denis Binder published an article entitled A 2014 Primer on Academic Freedom, Tenure, First Amendment, and Faculty Self-Governance in Legal Education in the 21st Century.
• Professor Lawrence Rosenthal was quoted in an article published in the Daily Journal entitled Sex offender statutes rife with pitfalls, experts say on January 13, 2016.
• Professor Sam Ernst's article The Lost Precedent of the Reverse Doctrine of Equivalents was featured on the Written Description blog on January 11, 2016.
• Professor Lawrence Rosenthal was quoted in an article published on Cleveland.com entitled PG Sittenfeld's plan to ban gun sales to Ohioans on no-fly list questioned by law professors on January 7, 2016.
• Dean Tom Campbell published an op-ed entitled Tale of 2 states' solar power rules in The Orange County Register on January 2, 2016.
• Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed entitled What College Students Really Want on the Verdict section of Justia.com on January 4, 2016.
• Associate Dean Donald Kochan's article Keepings was published as the lead article in Issue 3 of Volume 23 of the New York University Environmental Law Journal.
• Professor Lawrence Rosenthal's article The Statement and Account Clause as a National Security Freedom of Information Act was published in Volume 47 of the Loyola University of Chicago Law Journal.