Open House for Admitted Students
Itinerary
8:30–9 AM
Check-In and Breakfast
9–9:20 AM
Welcome to Pepperdine
Paul L. Caron
Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean
Professor of Law
Naomi Goodno
Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and Student Life
Professor of Law
9:20–10:40 AM
Student/Faculty Panel and Q&A
Moderator
Chalak Richards
Associate Dean of Student Life, Diversity, and Belonging
Panelists
Naomi Goodno
Steve Schultz
Professor of Law
Alina Ahmed
3L Student
Joe Castro
3L Student
Kate Popick
2L Student
Andrew Schafer
3L Student
10:40–11 AM
Break
11 AM–12:30 PM
1L Property Class
Shelley Saxer
Laure Sudreau Endowed Professor of Law
12:30–2 PM
Lunch and Caruso Law Fair
Meet representatives from Caruso Law student organizations, institutes, centers, departments,
and clinics. Lunch will feature Los Angeles' finest food trucks.
2 PM
Tours
Paul L. Caron
Paul Caron was named Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean of Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law on June 1, 2017. Dean Caron joined the Pepperdine faculty in 2013 after serving as the D & L Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor in the spring semesters in 2010-2013. He served as associate dean for research and faculty development at Pepperdine in 2015-2017. Previously, he was associate dean of faculty and Charles Hartsock Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. Dean Caron is one of the leading entrepreneurial tax scholars in the country. He is the publisher and editor of Tax Prof Blog, the most popular tax blog on the Internet; and the owner and publisher of the Law Professor Blogs Network of more than 50 blogs in other areas of law edited by law professors.
Naomi Goodno
Naomi Goodno is the vice dean for academic affairs and student life. After focusing on history and teaching as an undergraduate at Princeton University, Professor Goodno attended Berkeley Law, University of California for the first two years and spent her third year studying at Harvard Law School. While at Berkeley, Professor Goodno served as an articles editor for the California Law Review. At Harvard, she was an active member of the Mediation Program. She also interned at the U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of California, and the Alameda District Attorney's Office.
Chalak Richards
Chalak Richards is the first Associate Dean of Student Life, Diversity, and Belonging at Caruso Law. Established in early 2020, the office of the associate dean of student life, diversity, and belonging has three overarching goals: to create a community where all are welcomed and recognize they belong, to care for the well-being of each individual student, and to oversee the full student life experience. In her role, Richards develops programs to create a community that values and celebrates diversity and work on strategic initiatives and policies that strengthen diversity at all levels - student, faculty, and staff.
Steven Schultz
Steven Schultz is a two-time graduate of UCLA. He earned summa cum laude and Phi Beta
Kappa honors with his bachelor's degree in 1984 and graduated from the UCLA School
of Law in 1987. Immediately following law school, Professor Schultz served as a law
clerk to the Honorable Stephen V. Wilson of the US District Court for the Central
District of California. Professor Schultz loves to teach and has been teaching courses
at Pepperdine since 2005. He has taught a variety of upper-division courses, including
Employment Law, California Civil Procedure, Remedies, and Advanced Litigation Writing.
Professor Schultz has been honored to receive Pepperdine University's Howard A. White
Award for Teaching Excellence on two occasions. He has received the law school's Professor
of the Year award six times and he has been selected by numerous classes to serve
as their graduation breakfast speaker.
Shelley Saxer
Shelley Saxer has taught courses in real property, land use, community property, remedies, environmental law, water law, negotiation, and social-ecological resilience and sustainability. Professor Saxer served as the Chair, Chair-Elect, Secretary, and Executive Committee member of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Property Section between 2009 and 2012. She was on the Board of Directors for the Association for Law, Property, and Society (ALPS) in 2013 and 2014 and was the Program Committee Co-Chair for the 2014 ALPS conference held at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. While in law school, Professor Saxer served as the chief managing editor of the UCLA Law Review. Upon graduation, she clerked for the Honorable Wm. Matthew Byrne, Jr. of the Federal District Court for the Central District of California and then worked briefly as a corporate associate for the Century City law offices of O'Melveny & Myers.