California (Orange) -- Chapman University School of Law -- Accreditation: Full ABA -- Year Founded: 1995

Chapman University School of Law, commonly referred to as Chapman Law, is a private, non-profit law school located in Orange, California. The school offers the Juris Doctor degree (JD), combined programs offering a JD/MBA and JD/MFA in Film & Television Producing, and five LL.M. degrees in Business Law and Economics, Entertainment Law & Media, International & Comparative Law, Prosecutorial Science, and Taxation. Currently, the school has a full-time faculty of thirty-nine and a law library with holdings in excess of 290,000 volumes and volume equivalents.



Entrance to School of Law

Accreditation History

Established in 1995 as part of the much older Chapman University, Chapman Law gained provisional accreditation from the American Bar Association (ABA) in 1998. And in 2002, the ABA awarded the school full accreditation. In addition to its ABA membership, the Association of American Law Schools has also formally admitted Chapman Law as one of its members in 2006, noting that "the school has an outstanding physical facility and has developed a faculty with a strong commitment to teaching and scholarship."

Rankings

Chapman Law is currently listed in the 3rd Tier (out of four) of the US News and World Report's annual law school rankings, and as the 17th best tax law program.

The 2010 edition of The Princeton Review's Best 172 Law Schools lists Chapman Law as #2 in the "Best Classroom Experience" category, #3 in the "Best Quality of Life" category, and #7 in the "Professors Rock (Legally Speaking)" category.

Law Journals

Chapman Law has three law journals: the Chapman Law Review, the Journal of Criminal Justice, and the Nexus Journal of Opinion. According to the Washington and Lee University School of Law's submissions and ranking system, Chapman's law review ranks 59 (out of 262) in the general law journals category and 93 (out of 1424) in the total law journals category.



Contact

Mailing address and general information:

Chapman University School of Law
Donald P. Kennedy Hall
One University Dr.
Orange, CA 92866
(714) 628-2500
Dean's Office

Dr. John C. Eastman
Dean and Donald P. Kennedy Chair In Law
jeastman@chapman.edu

Gloria Davis
Executive Assistant to the Dean
gld@chapman.edu
(714) 628-2526

Dean's Suite Fax: (714) 628-2606

Website: http://www.chapman.edu/law

The School of Law has quickly earned a reputation as an emerging center for legal education.