Dr. John C. Eastman

Henry Salvatori Professor of Law and Community Service and Director, Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, Chapman University Fowler School of Law

Topics:	Free Speech & Election Law • Federalism & Separation of Powers • Religious Liberties • Civil Rights

Topics:

Free Speech & Election Law • Federalism & Separation of Powers • Religious Liberties • Civil Rights

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.

Horizontal Federalism: May States Project their Sovereignty Beyond Their Borders?

Nov 14 2019

Thursday 11:45 a.m. EST

Horizontal Federalism: May States Project their Sovereignty Beyond Their Borders?

2019 National Lawyers Convention

The Mayflower Hotel
1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036

Speakers:

John S. Baker • Michael B. Brennan • John C. Eastman • Edward L. Rubin • Ilya Shapiro

Topics:

Federalism • Federalism & Separation of Powers • Constitution • State Courts • State Governments • Supreme Court

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Nov 14 2019

Thursday 9:00 a.m. EST

2019 National Lawyers Convention

Originalism

The Mayflower Hotel
1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036

Speakers:

G. Barry Anderson • John S. Baker • Jack M. Balkin • Stephanie H. Barclay • Randy E. Barnett • William P. Barr • Evan D. Bernick • Josh Blackman • Adam Candeub • Michael A. Carvin • Ronald A. Cass • Eric R. Claeys • Paul D. Clement • Alexander J.S. Colvin • William S. Consovoy • Harmeet K. Dhillon • Michael C. Dorf • John C. Eastman • Jennifer Walker Elrod • Kurt Damian Engelhardt • Richard A. Epstein • William N. Eskridge • Mark C. Fleming • Deborah A. Garza • Eric Goldman • Luke Goodrich • Neil M. Gorsuch • Jamal Greene • Tara Leigh Grove • Deepak Gupta • Christopher Hajec • Philip A. Hamburger • Mauricio R. Hernandez • Kristin E. Hickman • Ryan T. Holte • Brett M. Kavanaugh • F. Scott Kieff • Gene Kimmelman • Neil J. Kinkopf • Donald Kohn • Richard J. Lazarus • Renée Lettow Lerner • Jonathan Lowy • Nelson Lund • William P. Marshall • Michael W. McConnell • John O. McGinnis • Thomas W. Merrill • Bernadette Meyler • Thomas D. Morgan • Alan B. Morrison • Christina M. Mulligan • Ryan D. Nelson • Norman J. Ornstein • Michael Stokes Paulsen • James E. Pfander • Richard H. Pildes • Andrew J. Pincus • Alex J. Pollock • Saikrishna B. Prakash • William H. Pryor • David B. Rivkin • Edward L. Rubin • Stephen E. Sachs • David S. Schoenbrod • Jefferson B. Sessions • Ilya Shapiro • Paul Sheard • Kristen Silverberg • Mark W. Smith • Lawrence Solum • Ilya Somin • David R. Stras • Richard E. Sylla • Jonathan E. Taylor • Eugene Volokh • Elizabeth B. Wydra • John C. Yoo • Juan C. Zarate

Topics:

Constitution

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