Subject: John Eastman

• More love for Chemerinsky

  Chapman University announced just a few moments ago that it has locked in recently reinstated UCI Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky to be its law school graduation commencement speaker next year. The announcement is the most recent illustration of Chemerinsky's quick ascension from ashy to classy. Chapman is taking the high ground saying, not only is it ok with Chemerinsky's possible "polarizing" politics, it welcomes them. According to the release, Chapman Law dean John Eastman supports Chem

  September 17, 2007

• What do Lindsay Lohan and Hugh Hewitt Have in Common?

  Although we're no fans of local talk show host Hugh Hewitt, we couldn't help but to feel a twinge of sympathy for the man, who's also a professor of law at Chapman University. The latest edition of the school's Chapman Magaine has a mini-profile on Hewie, whom you can listen to every weekday at 3pm on KRLA-AM 870. In the story, Hugh tells the magazine that the reason his show succeeds is because he respects his audience. "It doesn't have to be about celebrity or salaciousness," Hewitt states, an

  May 12, 2008

• Spain, Chapman University Debaters Are Out to Get John Yoo

  So the big question when John Yoo speaks at Chapman University next week about presidential power is: Will he be shackled? Probably not, seeing as how this is not Spain, but were Orange within the Iberian Peninsula nation and NATO ally, he'd be under criminal indictment for sanctioning torture at Guantánamo. The Fletcher Jones Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law's presence at Chapman certainly has sparked debate, and not just the one he's participating in Tuesday morning.The National Lawyer

  April 15, 2009

• More Join Chapman U's Debate on John Yoo Torture Memos

  Clockwork informed you yesterday about controversial law professor John Yoo being at the center of two upcoming Chapman University School of Law debates, one he is participating in and another that he is not participating in. When it comes to Saturday's "Forum on National Security, Rule of Law & Torture: The Torture Memos of John Yoo," which the National Lawyers Guild hosts from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Kennedy Hall, Rooms 237 A&B, we'd noted the speakers Include Larry Everest, author of Oil

  April 16, 2009

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  February 16, 2006

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  February 9, 2006

• A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

  August 25, 2005

• The Heat is Back on John Yoo

  Photo by Christopher VictorioYoo before his Chapman debate.The April 21 morning "terror memo" lawyer John Yoo appeared at the Chapman University debate, President Barack Obama said it would be up to his attorney general whether to prosecute former Bush administration advisors like Yoo. Since that day in Memorial Hall, the heat has turned up on AG Eric Holder to push the case forward, the U.S. Senate is leaning toward its own probe and, as many believed would happen, Spain's top investigative jud

  May 1, 2009

• Chapman Law Dean Shifts From One Controversy to Another

  Photo by Christopher VictorioJohn C. Eastman (right) listens as John Yoo debates at Chapman last month.The last time you read a Navel Gazing post that mentioned John C. Eastman, dean of Chapman University's School of Law, it was in reference to him teaming with the university's visiting law professor and Bush White House "torture memo" author John Yoo in April to debate two other Chapman law profs in Memorial Hall about presidential power in wartime. One thing Eastman rejected that day was a gov

  May 7, 2009

• John Yoo Stars in a Most Civilized Debate on Torture

  Photo by Christopher VictorioAs John Yoo makes his case, John C. Eastman is hard at think.Two days after Barack Obama's chief of staff said the administration was not inclined to back prosecutions against Bush lawyers who signed off on torture, the president backed off that statement today, saying he would leave that up to his attorney general. If this reversal bunched John Yoo's BVDs, he sure wasn't showing it inside Chapman University's Memorial Hall, where the controversial UC Berkeley law pr

  April 21, 2009

• Weekend Forecast for Newport Beach: Very, Very, Very Conservative

  Andrew Breitbart: From Fox News to Newport Beach​What would you do if you found out conservatives Andrew Breitbart, Jim Lacy, Tom Fuentes, Bruce Herschesohn, Sir Eldon Griffiths, Governor Tim Pawlenty, Meg Whitman, Chuck DeVore, Jeff Miller, Ralph Reed, Dana Rohrabacher, Ed Royce, Steve Poizner, Barry Goldwater, Jr., Gary Kreep, Don Wagner, John Ziegler, John Eastman, Michelle Steel, Matt/Jubal Cunningham and Jon Fleischman were going to be i

  October 15, 2009

• Don Wagner Kicks Off Assembly Bid With a Little Help From His Far-Out, Far-Right Friends

  Don Wagner, in charge.​Irvine's Don Wagner, the hard-core conservative president of the South Orange County Community College District Board of Trustees, kicks off his bid for state Assembly this evening with the help from one of the other hard-core conservatives on the college board's dais, "Chairman Emeritus of the Orange County Republican Party Central Committee" Tom Fuentes.Wagner hopes to win the GOP nomination for the 2010 race for the Assembly seat currently filled by Chuck DeVore (R-Ir

  September 30, 2009

• UPDATED: UCI's Chemerinsky and Chapman's Eastman to Engage in Ultimate "Battle of the Law Deans" Freeway-Series Smackdown

  Courtesy of Chapman UniversityUCI School of Law dean Erwin Chemerinsky (left) and Chapman University School of Law dean John Eastman are friends and often ideological foes. ​UPDATED TO CHANGE LOCATION TO MUCH LARGER MEMORIAL HALL . . . Screw the Dodgers and Angels. More hits, misses and spitballs are guaranteed Sept. 24 when "The Battle of Law School Deans" pits Chapman University School of Law's John Eastman against his counterpart at UC Irvine's brand-spanking new School of Law, Erwin Chemer

  September 17, 2009