The School of Law has announced that Emeritus Professor Harry Jaffa will be the keynote speaker at the 2009 Chapman Law Review Symposium, to be held on January 30, 2009. The Symposium theme will be “Lincoln Constitutionalism in Time of War: Lessons for the War on Terror.” For information, please contact the Symposium Editor at
Adjunct Professor C.D. Michael has published an op-ed in Courier News (IL), entitled “The right to keep arms – and bear lawsuits.” In the piece, he observed that “In overturning Washington, D.C.’s near absolute ban on handguns, the Supreme Court settled one long-running — it last visited the Second Amendment in 1939 — constitutional dispute, but
Dean John Eastman was quoted in an article in San Francisco Chronicle, entitled “Rights, arms and the man,” which discussed the recent United States Supreme Court decision overturning Washington DC’s handgun ban. Dean Eastman found it ironic that the four dissenting justices relied on an interpretation of the framers’ original intent – when they don’t