Straus Institute Launch Week Journal

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Straus Institute and Graduate Law Programs

Journal Launch Week

AUGUST 12

TUESDAY, AUGUST 13

wednesday, AUGUST 14 For

thursday, AUGUST 15

friDAY, AUGUST 16

This Friday will follow a Monday schedule.

Normally scheduled Monday classes begin today

Due to Labor Day Weekend, classes that are normally scheduled on Mondays begin today

friDAY, AUGUST 23

Pepperdine Caruso Law Mission and Vision

“Strengthening Lives for Purpose, Service, and Leadership”

MISSION

As part of Pepperdine University, Caruso School of Law aspires to be a preeminent global Christian law school, integrating premier legal training with the highest standards of ethics and morality. This aspiration is built on a foundational commitment to both academic excellence and Christian values.

VISION

Pepperdine Caruso Law seeks to provide students with an outstanding and rigorous legal education through classroom instruction, advanced experiential learning, and hands-on clinical and externship placements. We not only seek to instill in our students a deep understanding of the law, but we also seek to engage with them holistically—to provide them with a transformative educational experience that strengthens them for lives of purpose, service, and leadership. Our abiding goal is to equip our students to lead with character and conviction—to serve the world as outstanding legal professionals imbued with the highest standards of ethics and morality.

As a diverse community grounded in Christian values, our institution is guided by faith in Jesus Christ and intentionally seeks to reflect him to the world. We therefore seek to build a community that is rooted in love, justice, truth, and grace—one that engenders a deep sense of belonging and connection with respect to every single member. We celebrate, embrace, and seek to broaden the diversity of personal backgrounds, lived experiences, and viewpoints within our

community, as such diversity is essential to our community’s vitality. We welcome students from all faith backgrounds (or no faith background at all). This core commitment to diversity is grounded on our Christian values: we value each individual as a perfect creation of God (Col. 1:16–17), and we are called to be all things for all people so that we can best serve them (1 Cor. 9:21–22). Care for the whole person therefore guides our relationships and motivates our pursuit of holistic wellness from a mental, physical, and spiritual perspective. We strive to be a place where people make meaningful lifelong connections—not simply as students, professors, or staff, but as human beings.

Furthermore, the pursuit of truth underlies our institutional commitment to academic excellence. We are therefore committed to nurturing respectful discourse and debate within an environment that values free speech principles—one that encourages a broad range of different arguments and perspectives and does not shy away from difficult conversations. This commitment to intellectual diversity is rooted not only in the academic imperative to pursue the truth fearlessly, but also in our pedagogical imperative to train future legal professionals that are equipped to confront and consider differing viewpoints and arguments. We seek to build an academic and scholarly community in which this sort of vibrant, wide-ranging discourse is conducted in a spirit of unity and love—one that respects the dignity and diverse viewpoints of each person.

Selected Student Life Policies and Regulations

Students are bound by all of the policies located in the Student Handbook. The following selected policies are highlighted for discussion during Launch Week:

Reporting Obligations All students of the Caruso School of Law owe a continuing duty to report in writing to the dean of the Caruso School of Law any conviction, guilty plea, or plea of nolo contendere (no contest to the charge), except regarding minor traffic offenses. The report must be made within 14 days of the conviction or plea. The University reserves the right to dismiss a student, after reasonable notice and an opportunity to be heard, who has been convicted or pled guilty or nolo contendere to an offense other than a minor traffic violation, or who fails to notify the Caruso School of Law of a conviction or plea as described above.

Alcohol and Drugs It is the desire of Pepperdine University to foster an alcohol-and-drug-free environment in which to work, live, and learn. As a Christian university, Pepperdine attempts to take an approach to individual problems of alcohol or drug use characterized by helpfulness, compassion, understanding, and encouragement on the one hand, and by directness and concerned firmness on the other. It is also the law school’s intent to comply with the Drug and Alcohol Abuse Prevention Amendment of 1998. See Substance Abuse Policy in the Student Handbook. Consequently, the consumption or

IMPORTANT CONTACT INFORMATION

In Case of an Emergency CALL 911– EMERGENCIES AND AMBULANCE THEN CALL 310.506.4441 (Public Safety)

Escort or Service Request 310.506.4442 Road Conditions Hotline 310.506.ROAD

Student Health Center

310.506.4316

Monday–Friday, 8 am–5 pm

Student Counseling Center

310.506.4210

Monday–Friday, 8 am–5 pm Student Assistance Center 177 student.counseling.center@pepperdine.edu

Malibu Urgent Care

310.456.7551

Monday–Sunday, 9 am–8 pm Pacific Coast Highway and Webb Way

Area Hospitals

UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica 424.259.6000

St. John’s Health Center, Santa Monica 310.829.5511

Kaiser Permanente, Thousand Oaks 888.515.3500 Los Robles Hospital, Thousand Oaks 805.497.2727

Substance Abuse

Alcoholics Anonymous Los Angeles 323.936.4343

Lawyers Assistance Program California State Bar 877.527.4435

The Other Bar 800.222.0767

possession of alcoholic beverages or possession of empty containers is prohibited on University property, regardless of a student’s age. Intoxication is also prohibited. The use, possession, distribution, or sale of all illegal or potentially harmful drugs or drug-related paraphernalia is strictly prohibited. Anyone involved in the sale of drugs will be dismissed immediately. Pepperdine is a smoke-free campus.

Dishonesty Dishonesty in any form, including plagiarizing, cheating on assignments or examinations, knowingly furnishing false information on University records, forging, altering, or misusing documents, records, or identification cards, or failing to comply with written or verbal directives of duly authorized officials acting in the performance of assigned duties is strictly prohibited.

Working as a 1L Working during the first year of law school is strongly discouraged, but if there is an extraordinary circumstance, first-year students should speak with the dean of students or the associate dean for academic affairs before accepting either a paid or voluntary commitment.

Eating Disorders

National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders 630.577.1330

Serenity Malibu Treatment 888.247.7175

Domestic Violence and Physical Abuse

National Domestic Violence Life Line (24/7)

800.799.7233

Santa Monica Rape Treatment Center (24/7) 310.319.4000

Sojourn Services-Battered Women (24/7) 310.264.6644

Suicide Hotline

National Suicide Prevention Hotline (24/7) Call or Text 988

Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health 800.854.7771

211 Los Angeles County (social services) dial 211

Smokers Anonymous

Nicotine Anonymous 877.879.6422

Gamblers Anonymous

Gamblers Anonymous 855.222.5542

Mental Health Resources for Law Students

lawlifeline.net

Religious Outreach

Hub for Spiritual Life

310.506.4545 spirtuallife@pepperdine.edu

University Church of Christ 310.506.4504 church@pepperdine.edu

Office of Student Accessibility (Monday–Friday, 8 am–5 pm) 310.506.6500 student.accessibility@pepperdine.edu

Pepperdine University

Caruso School of Law

Jason Jarvis 310.506.7110

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs jason.jarvis@pepperdine.edu

Chalak Guinses 310.506.4623

Dean of Students, Belonging, and Career Development chalak.guinses@pepperdine.edu

Al Sturgeon 310.506.4623

Assistant Dean of Student Life and Spiritual Development

Senior Fellow, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution al.sturgeon@pepperdine.edu

Student Information and Services 310.506.4638 lawstudentinfo@pepperdine.edu

Financial Assistance 310.506.4633 lawfinaid@pepperdine.edu

Student Organizations

Student Bar Association (SBA) sba@law.pepperdine.edu

Advocates for Public Interest Law (APIL) apil@law.pepperdine.edu

American Constitution Society americanconstitutionsociety@law.pepperdine.edu

Armenian Law Student Association (ALSA) americanconstitutionsociety@law.pepperdine.edu

Asian-Pacific American Law Student Association (APALSA) apalsa@law.pepperdine.edu

Black Law Students Association blsa@law.pepperdine.edu

Cannabis and the Law Student Association (CALSA) CALSA@law.pepperdine.edu

Chess Club ChessClub@law.pepperdine.edu

Children's and Family Legal Society CFLS@law.pepperdine.edu

Christian Legal Society (CLS) christianlegalsociety@law.pepperdine.edu

Criminal Law Society criminallawsociety@law.pepperdine.edu

Dispute Resolution Society drs@law.pepperdine.edu

Environmental Law Society environmentallawsociety@law.pepperdine.edu

Federalist Society fedsoc@law.pepperdine.edu

First-Generation Law Student Association firstgeneration@law.pepperdine.edu

Health Law Society (HLS) healthlawsociety@law.pepperdine.edu

Intellectual Property Student Association ipsa@law.pepperdine.edu

International Law Society internationallawsociety@law.pepperdine.edu

Iranian Law Student Association iranianlawstudentassociation@law.pepperdine.edu

Jewish Law Students Association jewishlawstudentassociation@law.pepperdine.edu

Muslim Student Association (MSA) MuslimStudentAssociation@law.pepperdine.edu

National Latinx Law Student Association nllsa@law.pepperdine.edu

National Lawyers Guild nlg@law.pepperdine.edu

Pepperdine International Arbitration Society (PIAS) PIAS@law.pepperdine.edu

Pepperdine OUTLaw outlaw@law.pepperdine.edu

Phi Delta Phi phideltaphi@law.pepperdine.edu

Spanish Conversation Club spanishconversationclub@law.pepperdine.edu

Sports and Entertainment Law Society sels@law.pepperdine.edu

Student Plaintiffs Bar (SPB) studentplaintiffsbar@law.pepperdine.edu

Students for Life studentsforlife@law.pepperdine.edu

Students for Reproductive Justice studentsforreproductivejustice@law.pepperdine.edu

Veterans Legal Society vls@law.pepperdine.edu

Video Game Law Society videogamelawsociety@law.pepperdine.edu

Women’s Legal Association wla@law.pepperdine.edu

Student Journals

Pepperdine Law Review lawreview@law.pepperdine.edu

Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal drlj@law.pepperdine.edu

Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship, and the Law jbel@law.pepperdine.edu

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary naalj@law.pepperdine.edu

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