Facebook pixel Carol A. Chase | Faculty | Pepperdine Caruso School of Law Skip to main content
Pepperdine | Caruso School of Law
Carol Chase head shot

Carol A. Chase

Professor Emeritus
Caruso School of Law
310.506.4676
Curriculum Vitae

Biography

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.

Professor Chase regularly teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, and Trial Practice, and has been honored as a Luckman Distinguished Teaching Fellow, and is the recipient of the Howard A. White Award for Teaching Excellence. She has commented extensively in the media on various legal topics. She has also served as the Law School's Associate Dean for Academics.

Education

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

 

Articles

  • Carol A. Chase, Cops, Canines, and Curtilage: What Jardines Teaches and What It Leaves Unanswered, 52 HOUS. L. REV. 1289 (2015) HeinOnline
  • Carol A. Chase, H. Mitchell Caldwell & Christine Chambers Goodman, Unpredictable Doom and Lethal Injustice: An Argument for Greater Transparency in Death Penalty Decisions, 82 TEMP. L. REV. 997 (2009) SSRNHeinOnline
  • Carol A. Chase, The Honorable Sandra Day O'Connor, Kenneth W. Starr, Colleen Graffy & Virginia Milstead, The Third Annual William French Smith Memorial Lecture: A Conversation with Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, 37 PEPP. L. REV. 63 (2009) (symposium issue) HeinOnline
  • Carol Chase & Christine Chambers Goodman, Death Penalty Criteria Must Be Transparent, SACRAMENTO BEE, July 2, 2009
  • Carol A. Chase, 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) SSRNHeinOnline
  • Carol A. Chase, 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) SSRNHeinOnline
  • Carol A. Chase, The Five Faces of the Confrontation Clause, 40 HOUS. L. REV. 1003 (2003) SSRNHeinOnline
  • Carol A. Chase, Rampart: A Crying Need to Restore Police Accountability, 34 LOY. L.A. L. REV. 767 (2001) SSRNHeinOnline
  • Carol A. Chase, Privacy Takes a Back Seat: Putting the Automobile Exception Back on Track After Several Wrong Turns, SEARCH & SEIZURE L. REP., Oct. 2000, at 65
  • Carol A. Chase, H. Mitchell Caldwell & L. Timothy Perrin, It Is Broken: Breaking the Inertia of the Exclusionary Rule, 26 PEPP. L. REV. 971 (1999) SSRNHeinOnline
  • Carol A. Chase, H. Mitchell Caldwell & L. Timothy Perrin, An Invitation to Dialogue: Exploring the Pepperdine Proposal to Move Beyond the Exclusionary Rule, 26 PEPP. L. REV. 789 (1999) (symposium issue) SSRNHeinOnline
  • Carol A. Chase, H. Mitchell Caldwell & L. Timothy Perrin, If It's Broken, Fix It: Moving Beyond the Exclusionary Rule: A New and Extensive Empirical Study of the Exclusionary Rule and a Call for Civil Administrative Remedy to Partially Replace the Rule, 83 IOWA L. REV. 669 (1999); 26 SEARCH & SEIZURE L. REP. 141 (1999) SSRNHeinOnline
  • Carol A. Chase & Colleen P. Graffy, A Challenge for Cause against Peremptory Challenges in Criminal, 10 LOY. L.A. INT'L & COMP. L.J. 507 (1997) HeinOnline
  • Carol A. Chase, Heading the "Sounds of Silence" in Criminal Trials: A Look at Recent British Law Reforms with an Eye Toward Reforming the American Criminal Justice System, 44 U. KAN. L. REV. 929 (1996) HeinOnline
  • Harry M. Caldwell and Carol A. Chase, The Unruly Exclusionary Rule: Heeding Justice Blackmun's Call to Examine the Rule in Light of Changing Judicial Understanding About Its Effects Outside the Courtroom, 78 MARQUETTE L. REV. 45 (1994) HeinOnline
  • Carol A. Chase, Confronting Supreme Confusion: Balancing Defendants' Confrontation Clause Rights Against the Need to Protect Child Abuse Victims, 1993 UTAH L. REV. 407 (1993) HeinOnline

Reports

  • Carol A. Chase, H. Mitchell Caldwell & Christine Chambers Goodman, Structure and Administration of the Exercise of Discretion by California District Attorneys in Prosecuting Homicides as Death Cases, submitted to the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice, http://www.ccfaj.org/rr-dp-expert.html

Books

  • H. Mitchell Caldwell, Carol A. Chase, Naomi Goodno & L. Timothy Perrin, CASE FILES FOR BASIC TRIAL ADVOCACY (Carolina Academic Press, 2d ed., 2017) WorldCat
  • Carol A. Chase, L. Timothy Perrin & H. Mitchell Caldwell, THE ART AND SCIENCE OF TRIAL ADVOCACY (Lexis, 2d ed. 2011) WorldCat
  • Carol A. Chase, H. Mitchell Caldwell, Naomi Harlin Goodno & L. Timothy Perrin, CASE FILES FOR BASIC TRIAL ADVOCACY (LexisNexis 2009) WorldCat
  • Carol A. Chase, L. Timothy Perrin & H. Mitchell Caldwell, THE ART AND SCIENCE OF TRIAL ADVOCACY (Anderson Publ. Co. 2003) WorldCat
  • Carol A. Chase, "Conversation with Justice Sandra Day O'Connor", William French Smith Third Memorial Lecture, 2009
    • Carol Chase & Christine Chambers Goodman, Radio interview re district attorney responses to 2008 death penalty survey, 2009
    • Carol A. Chase, Interview on World Radio Switzerland re: Roman Polanski extradition, 2009

    Topics

    • Criminal Law and Procedure
    • Evidence
    • Trial Advocacy

    Links