Chapman University School of Law
| Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law | |
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| Parent school | Chapman University |
| Established | 1995 |
| School type | Private |
| Parent endowment | $266 million |
| Dean | Matthew J. Parlow |
| Location |
Orange, California, US 33°47′38″N 117°51′04″W / 33.79389°N 117.85111°WCoordinates: 33°47′38″N 117°51′04″W / 33.79389°N 117.85111°W |
| Enrollment | 479 (full- and part-time) |
| Faculty | 74 full-and part-time members of the faculty and 7 professional librarians |
| USNWR ranking | 134 |
| Bar pass rate | 57% |
| Website | www |
| ABA profile | Official ABA profile |
Chapman University's Dale E. Fowler School of Law, commonly referred to as Chapman University School of Law or Chapman Law School, 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 multiple LL.M. degree options. The school also offers emphasis options in Business Law, Criminal Law, Entertainment Law, Environmental Law, International Law, Trial Advocacy, and Taxation. Currently, the school has 74 full- and part-time faculty members and a law library with holdings in excess of 290,000 volumes and volume equivalents.
Established in 1995 as part of Chapman University, Chapman Law gained provisional accreditation from the American Bar Association (ABA) in 1998 and received full ABA accreditation in 2002. In addition to its ABA membership, the Association of American Law Schools has 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." In 2013, the ABA again fully accredited the school until 2020, the standard seven-year accreditation term.
Chapman University School of Law is currently ranked 134th (third tier) by the US News and World Report's annual law school rankings.
Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law offers an in-house Bar Preparation Program to complement traditional doctrinal law school coursework. Chapman's bar preparation program consists of two major components: for-credit courses and a supplemental bar preparation program. Students that actively participate in all of the components receive preparation for all three parts of the bar examination, as modified by the change in the California Bar Examination effective in July 2017:
The program is taught and supervised by Professor Mario Mainero, the law school’s Director of Bar Services.
Chapman has beaten the California ABA Law School Pass Rate for first time takers of the July examination in five out of the past six years. Information about Chapman's recent bar pass rates is available on the law school's website.
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