chapman ups the reputation ante with some big name faculty.

[petra pasternak]

Chapman University School of Law has climbed from the fourth-tier to the third tier in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings. Now the school has its sights set on the top tier, says Dean John Eastman.

Eastman, who joined in July 2007, said that to continue the ascent, Chapman has hired a string of big-name faculty. This year, the school added 20, including 10 permanent professors.

Among its high-profile visiting faculty is Berkeley Law Professor John Yoo, who will join Chapman as the 2008-09 Fletcher Jones distinguished visiting professor. Tom Campbell, a former Stanford Law School professor and dean of Haas School of Business at UC-Berkeley, will begin a two-year visit to Chapman in January as the inaugural Presidential Fellow. International human rights scholar and Princeton Law School Professor Richard Falk (*edited to reflect correct title) is currently teaching as the inaugural Bette & Wylie Aitken distinguished visitor, joined by his wife Hilal Elver as a visiting associate professor specializing in international environmental law.

Chapman also announced new permanent professors Ronald Rotunda, a constitutional and legal ethics specialist from George Mason University School of Law; Michael Bazyler from Whittier Law School; Richard Redding from Villanova Law School, and John Tehranian from University of Utah College of Law.

Its rise in the rankings this past year, coupled with a weakening economy, have helped boost the school’s applicant pool by almost 10 percent, and the acceptance rate from 30 to 60 percent in the most recent year, Eastman said.

The school’s bar exam pass rate for first-time test takers in July 2007 was 72.1%, according to the California  Bar Association (.pdf).

Comments

No such thing as Princeton Law School.

[Cynthia]

Thanks for pointing that out - the correction has been made.