Dr. John Eastman is the Henry Salvatori Professor of Law & Community Service and former Dean at Chapman University's Dale E. Fowler School of Law, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1999, specializing in Constitutional Law, Legal History, and Property. He also leads the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, a public interest law firm affiliated with the Claremont Institute that he founded in 1999. He has a Ph.D. in Government from the Claremont Graduate School and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, and a B.A. in Politics and Economics from the University of Dallas. He serves as the Chairman of the Board of the National Organization for Marriage and is Chairman of the Federalist Society's Federalism & Separation of Powers practice group.
Prior to joining the Chapman law faculty, Dr. Eastman served as a law clerk to the Honorable Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, and to the Honorable J. Michael Luttig, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and practiced law with the national law firm of Kirkland & Ellis. Dr. Eastman has also represented numerous clients in important constitutional law matters and has argued before the Supreme Court. On behalf of the Claremont Institute Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, he has participated as amicus curiae before the Supreme Court of the United States, U.S. Courts of Appeals, and State Supreme Courts in more than one hundred cases of constitutional significance, including Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (the school vouchers case), Kelo v. New London, Ct. (eminent domain), and Van Orden v. Perry (the 10 Commandments case). He has also appeared as an expert legal commentator on numerous television and radio programs, including C-SPAN, Fox News, PBS, NewsHour, and The O'Reilly Factor.
Panel Two: What are the Limits of Local Control?
2019 Annual Western Chapters Conference
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Philosopher King Courts: Is the Exercise of Higher Law Authority Without A Higher Law Foundation Legitimate?
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Independent Agencies: How Independent is Too Independent?
2018 National Lawyers Convention
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Administrative Agencies, Judicial Deference and the Nondelegation Doctrine
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Coming Federal Appellate Cases: Religion and Speech, Civil Rights, and Separation of Powers
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Panel Two: What are the Limits of Local Control?
2019 Annual Western Chapters Conference
When is it appropriate for states and cities to contradict or ignore federal law? Do...
Panel Two: What are the Limits of Local Control?
2019 Annual Western Chapters Conference
When is it appropriate for states and cities to contradict or ignore federal law? Do...
Independent Agencies: How Independent is Too Independent?
2018 National Lawyers Convention
Justice Scalia put it bluntly in Morrison v. Olson: “There are now no lines.” Morrison,...
Independent Agencies: How Independent is Too Independent?
2018 National Lawyers Convention
Justice Scalia put it bluntly in Morrison v. Olson: “There are now no lines.” Morrison,...
Liberty Month Revisited: Separation of Powers, Essential to Liberty, Is Under Attack
This month we are sharing a selection of paired pieces from The Federalist Society's Liberty...