USA Today quoted Professor Kyndra Rotunda in a piece about WikiLeaks’ report on the increasing number of “high risk” Guantanamo detainees. “The more we learn, the more that number grows,” Professor Rotunda told USA Today. “A few years ago it was 10%. Then they said 25%. Now it’s a third.” Read the article, entitled, “More
The Orange County Register quoted Professor Kyndra Rotunda in an article about marines preparing for the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. “With any regulation or rule in the military, whether or not it’s followed depends on two things. The first is if there’s training up front. The other piece though is going to be
The Financial Times quoted Professor Kurt Eggert in an article about Goldman Sachs attempting to sell a mortgage servicing operation. “There is an inherent conflict when a bank that is betting on the housing market owns a company that can affect the default rates of the loans underlying that market,” Professor Kurt Eggert said. Read
The Chapman AMVETS Legal Clinic was featured in the Centre Daily Times in an article entitled, “AMVETS’ Pro Bono Legal Clinic Fills Veteran Need.” The article discussed the recent $500,000 grant by AMVETS for pro bono legal aid for veterans helped by AMVETS Legal Clinic. The article highlighted the involvement of Chapman Law students. “Our
Former Dean John Eastman was quoted in the New York Times about the Justice Department’s decision not to defend the Defense of Marriage Act. In the article, entitled “The President’s Courthouse,” Former Dean Eastman said that although there were indeed occasional cases in which the Justice Department should decline to defend a statute, this one
On February 17, the Wall Street Journal published Professor Donald Kochan’s op-ed titled “Reading Adam Smith in Arabic,” discussing issues of translations, foreign policy, soft power, and the Arabic Book Program. Professor Kochan’s op-ed is drawn from his previously published research in this area in the 2008 West Virginia Law Review titled “The Soft Power
Professor Anthony Caso was quoted in an article in The Recorder about the polarizing issue of pensions for government workers. Professor Caso, who represented as amicus the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence in a case before the Second District Court of Appeal, discussed the Constitutional requirement of voter approval of unfunded liabilities. “The bigger problem of this
The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by Former Dean John Eastman about Birthright Citizenship. In his op-ed, entitled, “The 14th Amendment and Children of Illegal Migrants,” Former Dean Eastman discusses the meaning of the Citizenship Clause as it might have been intended by its authors. “The Citizenship Clause actually codifies the Lockean view of
The Washington Post quoted Professor Kurt Eggert in an article about a foreclosure case that recently went before the Massachusetts Supreme Court. Professor Eggert discussed the problems with the legal argument the banking industry had been using to reassure investors and the public that everything was okay. “The banking industry has dismissed problems such as
Professor Kurt Eggert was quoted in the UK Guardian, in an article entitled, “Let’s Not Foreclose on Financial Reform.” The article highlighted Professor Eggert’s recent testimony at the December 1 hearing before the U.S Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. “The regulators often have been worried more about the soundness of banks than