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Frank J. Doti Tax Law Program Endowment
To honor the late Professor Frank J. Doti’s impact on, and contributions to, Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law, we have created an endowment fund to support the Fowler School of Law’s Tax Law Program and rename the Tax Law Certificate in his honor. Generous donors have pledged $100,000 as a matching challenge to inspire others to contribute to this fund in Professor Doti’s memory. Support Now »
Amicus Fund
Your gift to the Amicus Fund provides student scholarships, attracts and retains dynamic faculty, and ultimately raises the profile of the Fowler School of Law. Your generosity will enable us to prepare the next generation of lawyers and ensure the successful future of the Fowler School of Law. Support Now »
Fowler Law Scholarship Fund
Your donation to the Fowler Law Scholarship Fund will help us attract top-quality students during the admission process. Scholarship funds also help to minimize student debt. Through your support, our students are able to passionately pursue the kind of law career they want to have without worrying about student debt. Support Now »
Alona Cortese Elder Law Center
The Elder Law Center provides free legal services to low-income seniors throughout Orange County. Students work closely with our clinical faculty to help clients with numerous legal issues including claims of elder abuse, will drafting, advance health care directives, representation at administrative hearings, Medicare and Social Security matters, guardianships and conservatorships. The clinic also provides guidance about clients' rights as consumers and how to avoid financial abuse. Support Now »
Tax Law Clinic
The Tax Law Clinic offers both trial and appellate tax clinic opportunities to our students. Under the supervision of clinical faculty, students handle cases in many different stages of controversy or participate in docketed appellate tax cases. Students learn invaluable skills handling live clients and drafting appellate briefs while still in law school and clients benefit from receiving counsel and representation that they otherwise could not afford. Support Now »
Jayne Taylor Kacer First Generation Scholarship
To celebrate Dean Jayne Taylor Kacer’s legacy here at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law, we have created the Jayne Taylor Kacer First Generation Scholarship in her honor.
Dean Kacer was the first member in her immediate family to attend both college and law school. During law school, she balanced a family and worked to finance her studies. This endowed scholarship was created to provide more first-generation students with meaningful access to a high-quality legal education and will be awarded to an incoming 1L student. Support Now »
M. Katherine Baird Darmer Memorial Scholarship Fund
Professor M. Katherine Baird Darmer was a beloved teacher and colleague at the Fowler School of Law, where she was a faculty member from 2000 through 2012. She was a passionate advocate for marriage equality and a vigorous opponent of discrimination based on gender or orientation. Professor Darmer died on February 17, 2012. Funds from the M. Katherine Baird Darmer Memorial Scholarship Fund will be given to students committed to using their law degree to promote human rights, public interest law or gender equality. Support Now »
Chapman Law Alumni Book Scholarship
The Chapman Law Alumni Book Scholarship is designed to cover book and supply expenses for incoming first-year students. Support Now »
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