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Donald J. Kochan |
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Donald J. Kochan is an Associate Professor of Law at Chapman University School of Law. Immediately before coming to Chapman in 2004 he was an Olin Research Fellow and Instructor in Law at the University of Virginia School of Law for the 2003-2004 academic year. During 2002-2003, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law where he taught courses in Property and Environmental Law; and, during the summer of 2007, he was a visiting Professor at the University of Houston Law Center. Professor Kochan received his Juris Doctor from Cornell Law School (1998), where he was a John M. Olin Scholar in Law and Economics and managing editor of the Cornell International Law Journal. He also served as editor and executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy symposium issues in 1997 and 1998. He received his B.A. from Western Michigan University (1995), with majors in political science and philosophy. After graduating from law school, Professor Kochan was a law clerk to The Honorable Richard F. Suhrheinrich of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Following his clerkship, Professor Kochan was an associate with the firm of Crowell & Moring LLP in Washington, D.C., where he specialized in Natural Resources & Environmental Law.
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Donald J. Kochan Associate Professor of Law |
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Associate Professor of Law Chapman University School of Law |
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Selected Publications: for all selected publications click here |
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Sovereignty and the American Courts at the Cocktail Party of International Judicial Invocations of Foreign and International Law, 29 Fordham Int’l L.J. 50 (2006). |
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“Public Use” and the Independent Interest-Group Perspective, 3 Texas Rev. L. & Pol. 4 (1998). |
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The Political Economy of the Production of Customary International Law: The Role of NGOs and United States Courts, 21 Berkeley J. Int’l L. 240 (2004). |
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Limitation on the Scope of the “Law of Nations” in the Alien Tort Claims Act 31 Cornell Int’l L.J. 153 (1998) . |
The Unconstitutionality of Class- Based Statutory Limitations on Presidential Nominations: Can a Man Head the Women’s Bureau at the Department of Labor? 37 Loyola U. Chi. L. Rev. 43 (2005). |
Pamphleteers, 11 NEXUS L.J. 99 (2006). |
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Boyakasha, Fist to Fist: Respect and the Philosophical Link with Reciprocity in International Law and Human Rights, 38 G.W. Int’l. L. Rev. 349 (2006). |
The Soft Power and Persuasion of Translations in the War on Terror: Transformation of Legal Systems, 110 W. Va. L. Rev. 545 (2008). |
Much Ado About Pluralities: Pride Cacophony of Concurrences – and Re-Percolation After Rapanos, 15 Va. J. Soc. Pol’y & L. 299 (2008) (with Matthew Parlow and Melissa Berry). |
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No Longer Little Known But Now a Evolving and Dangerous Role of the Alien Tort Statute in Human Rights Jurisprudence, 8 Chapman L. Rev. 103 (2005). |
Legitimacy Line of Governmental Intervention: When Tomorrow is Just a Future Yesterday, 15 Nexus L.J. 107 (2010). |
Jurisprudential Tasting of Matured Legal Wines: Property and Public Choice in the Permitting Process, 24 BYU J. Pub. Law 49 (2010). |
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Runoff and Reality: Externalities and Traceability Problems in Urban Runoff Regulation, 9 Chapman L. Rev. 409 (2006).
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Implications for Policy Formation in the Law of Judicial Interpretation: A Interpretation by Antonin Scalia, 6 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 463 (1997). |
Pages Per Term in the United States Reports and Converting Supreme Court Citations to Term Announced: A Statistical Research Tool, 1998 Mich. St. L. Rev. 1091 (1998). |
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In the Heat of the Law, It’s Not Just Steam: Geothermal Resources and the Impacts on Thermophile Biodiversity, 13 Hastings W.-N.W.J. Envt’l L. & Pol’y 35 (2007) (with Tiffany Grant). |
Miranda at 40: Applications in a Post- Enron, Post 9/11 World: Introduction, 10 Chapman L. Rev. 531 (2007).
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