Professor of Law, Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, Campbell University
Richard T. Bowser serves as an adjunct faculty member for the School of Business and as a Professor of Law for the University’s law school. Bowser is a graduate of Campbell Law School, Westminster Theological Seminary and Grove City College.
He has taught and written upon a wide range of topics including constitutional law, legal philosophy, wills and trusts, and estate planning. He is a co-author of the treatise, Wiggins’ Wills and Administration of Estates in North Carolina.
On many occasions, Bowser has been recognized as an outstanding and demanding member of the faculty. Students have voted him “Professor of the Year” three times, he has received the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence twice, and in September of 2009, his students honored his service to them and to the school by naming the law school’s client counseling competition after him.
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin Chemerinsky became the 13th Dean of Berkeley Law on July 1, 2017, when he joined the faculty as the Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law.
Prior to assuming this position, from 2008-2017, he was the founding Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, and Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law, at University of California, Irvine School of Law, with a joint appointment in Political Science. Before that he was the Alston and Bird Professor of Law and Political Science at Duke University from 2004-2008, and from 1983-2004 was a professor at the University of Southern California Law School, including as the Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics, and Political Science. He also has taught at DePaul College of Law and UCLA Law School.
He is the author of eleven books, including leading casebooks and treatises about constitutional law, criminal procedure, and federal jurisdiction. His most recent books are, We the People: A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century (Picador Macmillan) published in November 2018, and two books published by Yale University Press in 2017, Closing the Courthouse Doors: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable and Free Speech on Campus (with Howard Gillman).
He also is the author of more than 200 law review articles. He writes a regular column for the Sacramento Bee, monthly columns for the ABA Journal and the Daily Journal, and frequent op-eds in newspapers across the country. He frequently argues appellate cases, including in the United States Supreme Court.
In 2016, he was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2017, National Jurist magazine again named Dean Chemerinsky as the most influential person in legal education in the United States.
God and Government - Transcript
E. Gregory Wallace, Richard Bowser, Erwin Chemerinsky
Transcript for the panel disussion "God and Government" presented by the Federalist Society's Student Division...