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Carol A. Chase, J.D.
Professor of Law

Office: School of Law (SOL)
E-mail: carol.chase@pepperdine.edu

• J.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1978
• B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1975, summa cum laude

Before joining the Pepperdine faculty, Professor Chase was an assistant U.S. attorney for the criminal division in Los Angeles. She has been an associate in the Los Angeles offices of Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom. She is a member of the American Bar Association, the California State Bar, and is admitted to practice in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. District Court for the Central and Eastern Districts of California.

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Selected Works:

• Carol A. Chase, H. Mitchell Caldwell & Christine Chambers Goodman, Death Penalty Survey Report, Submitted to the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice and available on the Commission's website, http://www.ccfaj.org/rr-dp-expert.html.
• Cars, Cops, and Crooks: A Reexamination of Belton and Carroll With an Eye Toward Restoring Fourth Amendment Privacy Protection to Automobiles, 85 OR. L. REV. 913 (2006).
• Is Crawford a "Get Out of Jail Free" Card for Batterers and Abusers? An Argument for a Narrow Definition of "Testimonial", 84 OR. L. REV. 1093 (2005).
• The Five Faces of the Confrontation Clause, 40 HOUS. L. REV. 1003 (2003).
• Rampart: A Crying Need to Restore Police Accountability, 34 LOY. L.A. L. REV. 767 (2001).
• Privacy Takes a Back Seat: Putting the Automobile Exception Back on Track After Several Wrong Turns, SEARCH & SEIZURE L. REP., Oct. 2000, at 65.
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