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John Eastman, law professor at Chapman University. Eastman also serves as chairman of the board of the anti-LGBT National Organization for Marriage. Over the years, he has referred to homosexuality as “barbarism”; voiced support for Uganda’s harsh anti-LGBT bill that would impose life sentences in some instances;and claimed that “a good portion of this [LGBT] movement seeks to remove age of consent so they can have sex with teenage boys.”

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State Bar investigation

On October 4, 2021, a bipartisan group of attorneys, including two former federal judges and two former justices of the California Supreme Court, filed a complaint with the State Bar of California asking for an investigation of Eastman relating to "his representation of former President Donald J. Trump in efforts to discredit and overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election."[116][117] In March 2022, the State Bar of California announced that since September 2021, it had been investigating claims of possible violations of law and ethics rules by Eastman.[118] Eastman's attorney said he expected Eastman to be exonerated.[119]

Repercussions at universities

On January 9, 2021, the chairman of Chapman's board of trustees and two other members (including former Democratic Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez) called on the university's president and provost and the law school's dean "to promptly take action against Eastman for his role in the events of Jan. 6." Eastman responded that he was speaking two miles away from the Capitol building.[120][121] Four days later,Chapman announced that Eastman had agreed to retire from the university, and the university's president, Daniele C. Struppa, said that Eastman and the university had "agreed not to engage in legal actions of any kind, including any claim of defamation that may currently exist, as both parties move forward".[122]

 Eastman published a statement the next day saying that those who publicly condemned him "have created such a hostile environment for me that I no longer wish to be a member of the Chapman faculty, and am therefore retiring from my position, effective immediately." He said he would continue with his Spring 2021 position as Visiting Professor of Conservative Thought and Policy at the University of Coloradoand intended to then devote full-time effort to his position as director of the Claremont Institute's Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence.[121][123]

The University of Colorado cancelled Eastman's Spring 2021 courses due to low enrollment.[124] The university also revoked some of Eastman's public-facing duties but permitted him to conduct scholarship.[125][77]

Other

On January 7, 2021, Eastman edited this Wikipedia article to portray his post-election role in a more favorable light. His editing was reverted due to conflict-of-interest rules of Wikipedia, and on January 9 he appealed on the article's talk page, where some changes were approved but others were denied.[126]

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Justice Department heard arguments that prosecutors in the Watergate investigation mistreated defendants connected to former President Richard Nixon, though the department says the review has not become a formal investigation.

Geoff Shepard, a former Nixon aide and Watergate historian, recently made his case in a two-hour presentation titled "Watergate as Lawfare" to the Office of Professional Responsibility, an internal watchdog, at Justice Department headquarters, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

A Justice Department spokeswoman said Shepard was invited because of his expertise and scholarship on Watergate but stressed that his "presentation does not constitute an investigation" and added that the office remains focused on ensuring department attorneys meet professional standards.

The review is preliminary, and it is unclear whether it will lead to a formal inquiry, according to people familiar with the matter.

In 2022, the department under then-President Joe Biden declined Shepard's request for an investigation, citing the time that had passed since the events.

Shepard argues that special prosecutors Archibald Cox and Leon Jaworski violated Watergate defendants' due process rights by meeting secretly with judges overseeing their trials and withholding evidence from the defense.

Cox led the prosecution before Nixon ordered him fired in 1973 in what became known as the "Saturday Night Massacre." Jaworski succeeded him.

The department's Office of Professional Responsibility was established in 1975 after revelations of ethical abuses and misconduct by senior officials during the Watergate scandal.

Shepard has for years advanced a revisionist account of the prosecution, using internal documents he says show Nixon and his associates were treated unfairly.

His claims differ from the prevailing historical account, which holds that Watergate was a constitutional crisis driven by abuses of presidential power. Nixon resigned in 1974 as impeachment proceedings advanced.

The review comes as President Donald Trump and some of his allies have drawn parallels between Nixon's experience and investigations into Trump.

Vice President JD Vance made that comparison during remarks this summer at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in California.

"If you look at the story of how the deep state took down Richard Nixon, it's not all that different from what the same groups of people, the same institutions, tried to do to Donald Trump in the first Trump administration," Vance said, according to The Washington Post. "There is a parallel."

Trump has asked former Nixon aides why the former president resigned rather than fight to remain in office and has moved to roll back some post-Watergate limits on presidential authority, including restrictions on removing inspectors general and career civil servants.

Separately, the Hoover Institution announced Wednesday that it will launch a project combining AI-assisted audio processing with manual checks of original materials to transcribe and annotate more than 3,000 hours of Nixon White House recordings held by the National Archives and Records Administration.

The tapes were secretly recorded from February 1971 to July 1973 in locations including the Oval Office, the Cabinet Room, Camp David, the Executive Office Building, and the Lincoln Sitting Room.

Luke A. Nichter, a Hoover Griffin Fellow and presidential historian at Chapman University, will lead the project.

The Hoover Institution said early results have reached 98% accuracy on clean audio.

"Our goal is to give historians, and eventually the public, documentation they can trust down to the sentence," Nichter said.

The Hoover Institution said the work has already surfaced material it describes as previously undisclosed surveillance of a sitting congressman, Nixon's management of the opening to China, and his role in a Wall Street messaging campaign.

The project focuses on documenting the tapes and is separate from the Justice Department's preliminary review of Shepard's allegations.

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Luke A. Nichter is the James H. Cavanaugh Endowed Chair in Presidential Studies at Chapman University, a Griffin Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and a member of the State Department's Historical Advisory Committee. His area of specialty is the Cold War, the modern presidency, and U.S. political and diplomatic history, with a focus on the "long 1960s" from John F. Kennedy through Watergate – using consequential moments from recent history to better understand contemporary politics

Nichter is a New York Times bestselling author or editor of numerous books, including The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968 (Yale University Press, 2023), awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship and chosen a best book by The Wall Street Journal; The Last Brahmin: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the Making of the Cold War (Yale University Press, 2020), awarded an NEH Public Scholar Grant; and Richard Nixon and Europe: The Reshaping of the Postwar Atlantic World (Cambridge University Press, 2015). He is working on an edited volume of Richard Nixon’s correspondence and a book tentatively titled LBJ: The White House Years of Lyndon Johnson.

Nichter is a noted expert on the secret White House recordings of Franklin D. Roosevelt through Richard Nixon and wrote a history of their taping systems commissioned by the White House Historical Association. His website, nixontapes.org, featured by CBS Sunday Morning, was the basis for The Nixon Tapes: 1971–1972 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014), co-edited with Douglas Brinkley, along with sequel The Nixon Tapes: 1973 (HMH, 2015). The volumes won the Link-Kuehl Prize for Documentary Editing awarded by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and are the most cited on the Nixon presidency.

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chapman University is a private research university in Orange, California. It encompasses ten schools and colleges, including Fowler School of Engineering, Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, Fowler School of Law, and Schmid College of Science and Technology, and is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity".[7] Although it does not claim to be a Christian college, it has had a relationship with the Disciples of Christ since the university's founding and with the United Church of Christ since 2011.[1]

History

Sculpture byRaymond Persinger of Charles C. Chapman, founder of Chapman University

Wilkinson Hall

Schmid Gate, built in 2005

A section of theBerlin Wall in Liberty Plaza

Founded in Woodland, California, as Hesperian College,[8] the school began classes on March 4, 1861. Its opening was timed to coincide with the hour of Abraham Lincoln's first inauguration.[9] Hesperian admitted students regardless of sex or race.[10]

In 1920, the assets of Hesperian College were absorbed by California Christian College,[a] which held classes in downtown Los Angeles. In 1934, the school was renamed Chapman College,[11] after the chairman of its board of trustees (and primary benefactor), C. C. Chapman. In 1954, it moved to its present campus in the city of Orange on the site formerly occupied by Orange High School, which was relocated.[11]

Chapman established a Residence Education Center Program to serve military personnel in 1958. This evolved into Brandman University.

Chapman College became Chapman University in 1991.[11] In that year, Dr. James L. Doti became president of Chapman University.

Colleges and programs

Donald P. Kennedy Hall, home of theDale E. Fowler School of Law

Argyros School of Business and Economics

The George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics is located in the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Business and Technology Hall.[12] Founded in 1977, the school is named after George L. Argyros, a Chapman alumus and former U.S. Ambassador to Spain. Argyros has chaired the board of trustees of Chapman University since 1976, and has donated significant resources towards establishing Chapman as a leading national business school.[13] The business school was renamed in Argyros' honor in 1999. In 2019 the Argyros School celebrated the 20th Anniversary of the naming of the school, capped off with a special fundraiser dinner on October 9, featuring special guest President George W. Bush.[14] The event raised approximately $15 million for the school's endowment, $10 million of which was a surprise announcement by the Argyros family. The $15 million raised is believed to be the largest 1-day fundraising event in Orange County's history.[15]

The Argyros School offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in business, including the Master of Business Administration and Master of Science.[16] In 2018 Chapman's full-time MBA program was ranked #73 by Bloomberg/Businessweek.[17]

The Argyros School of Business and Economics was officially nationally ranked as the 60th Best Undergraduate Bloomberg BusinessWeek Business School in 2014.[18] In 2016, the Argyros School of Business and Economics rose to 34th in the same Bloomberg rankings.

The Argyros School is home to several research centers and institutes, including the A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research, the C. Larry Hoag Center for Real Estate and Finance, the Ralph W. Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurship and Ethics, the Walter Schmid Center for International Business, the Economic Science Institute (founded byNobel Prize winner Vernon L. Smith and others in 2008),[19] and the Institute for the Study of Religion, Economics and Society (founded by Dr. Laurence Iannaccone in September 2009).[20]

The Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics is a program whose scope includes original research, scholarship, and the publication of several scholarly journals.

Donna Ford Attallah College of Educational Studies

Chapman University's Donna Ford Attallah College of Educational Studies[21] offers an undergraduate Integrated Educational Studies (IES) degree;[22] teaching, school counseling, and school psychology credentials; and graduate degrees in teaching, special education, school counseling, school psychology, and leadership, including a Ph.D. in education.[23] The college is also home to various centers and programs for community engagement and research, including the Centro Comunitario de Educación,[24] Paulo Freire Democratic Project (PFDP),[25] and Thompson Policy Institute on Disability and Autism.[26]

The School of Education at Chapman University became the College of Educational Studies in August 2008. In 2017, the college was named in honor of Donna Ford Attallah. The current home of the Attallah College is Chapman's Reeves Hall, which was one of the first buildings constructed for Orange Union High School on the site in 1913, added to the National Register for Historic Places in 1975, and renovated and reopened to the public in February 2018.[27]

The Attallah College or its programs are accredited by the Council Accreditation of Educator Preparation, Commission on Teacher Credentialing, National Association of School Psychologists, and International School Psychology Association.[28]

Dodge College of Film and Media Arts

Main article: Dodge College of Film and Media Arts

The college has been recognized as one of the top ten film schools in the world and ranked #4 by The Hollywood Reporter among American film schools.[29]

Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences

Formerly part of Chapman University's Schmid College of Science and Technology, the Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences officially became its own independent college at Chapman University on June 1, 2014.[30]

Undergraduate programs in Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences include B.S. Applied Human Physiology, B.S. Health Sciences, and B.A. Psychology. Graduate and post-baccalaureate programs include M.A. Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT), M.S. Communication Sciences & Disorders, a MMS Physician Assistant (set to open in 2015), a Doctor of Physical Therapy (PT) (accredited since 1928, making it one of the oldest such programs in the United States), and a Transitional Doctor of Physical Therapy.

The physical therapy, communication sciences & disorders, and physician assistant programs are housed on Chapman University's Harry and Diane Rinker Health Science Campus in Irvine, California.

Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences is the largest college at Chapman University and is composed of the departments of art, English, history, world languages and cultures, peace studies, philosophy, political science, religious studies, and sociology.

Dale E. Fowler School of Law

Main article: Chapman University School of Law

The Chapman University School of Law is located in Kennedy Hall. Law degrees offered include the Juris Doctor (J.D.) and Master of Laws (LL.M.) degrees in various specialties.

Dale E. and Sarah Ann Fowler School of Engineering

Since opening in fall 2019, the Chapman University school has grown to include undergraduate programs in computer science, data analytics, software engineering and game development programming. A minor in computer engineering is also available. The university will launch a bachelor's degree program in computer engineering in fall 2020, with electrical engineering to follow in fall 2021, and a master's degree program in computer science in fall 2022. Further expansion targets programs in biomedical and environmental engineering.

College of Performing Arts

Chapman University's College of Performing Arts, founded in 2007, operates in divisions: the Hall-Musco Conservatory of Music, the Department of Dance, and the Department of Theatre.[31] The Conservatory of Music offers a Bachelor of Music (B.M.), the Dance Department offers a Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A) and a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), and the Theatre Department offers the Bachelor of Arts (B.A.). The Theatre Department also offer two Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) programs—Theatre Performance and Screen Acting—taught in conjunction with the Dodge Film School.

Schmid College of Science and Technology

Chapman University's Schmid College of Science and Technology was founded in 2008 when science-related degree programs (then housed in the Wilkinson School of Humanities and Social Sciences) were migrated to the new college. In 2014, the Schmid College underwent a reorganization to create the Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences. In 2019, the undergraduate programs computer science, data analytics, software engineering, and game development programming transferred out of Schmid College to start the new Fowler School of Engineering.

In addition to its undergraduate and graduate programs, Schmid College is home to various centers for research. Among them are the Center of Excellence in Computation, Algebra and Topology (CECAT), the Center of Excellence in Complex and Hyper-complex Analysis (CECHA) and the Center of Excellence in Earth Systems Modeling and Observations (CEESMO). Schmid College is also affiliated with the Institute for Quantum Studies, whose list of physicists, includes a 2013 Nobel Prize recipient and a 2010 Presidential Medal of Honor winner.[32]

Schmid College of Science and Technology recently expanded and moved into the new 140,000 sq. ft. Keck Center for Science and Engineering on Chapman's main campus in Orange, California. The research facility contains 45 research and teaching labs, 50 faculty offices, seven student-collaboration spaces, and an outdoor amphitheater. The aesthetic of the building was inspired by the work of American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.[33]

School of Pharmacy

The Chapman University School of Pharmacy (CUSP) is located at the Rinker Campus in Irvine. Pharmacy degrees include the Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.), a Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Science (MSPS), and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Pharmaceutical Sciences. The Chapman School of Pharmacy also offers an accelerated five-year Doctor of Pharmacy program to qualified high school seniors.

School of Communication

The School of Communication is the newest school in the university. It is located on the university's main campus and housed within Doti Hall, currently offering three majors for students to choose from, including: BA in Communication Studies, BA in Strategic & Corporate Communication, as well as an MS in Health and Strategic Communication.[34][35]

Brandman University

Main article: University of Massachusetts Global

Brandman University was a separate, fully accredited, university within the Chapman University System,[36] which had over 25 campuses throughout California and Washington,[37] and a campus online. In September 2021, Brandman reaffiliated with the University of Massachusetts System via a change of control agreement and rebranded as University of Massachusetts Global (UMass Global).[38]

Rankings and admissions

Academic rankingsAcademic rankings
NationalNational
Forbes[39]246
THE/WSJ[40]171
U.S. News & World Report[41]122
Washington Monthly[42]356
GlobalGlobal
U.S. News & World Report[43]1298

In U.S. News & World Report's 2020 rankings of the best colleges in America, the university was moved from the master's-level universities in the Western region to the National Universities group, with a debut ranking of tied at 125th. The reclassification was due to Chapman's elevation to R2 status by Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education in recognition of its high research activity. U.S. News uses the Carnegie Classifications for its categorization of universities.

For U.S. News & World Report's 2021 rankings, Chapman University was ranked tied for 124th overall among national universities, tied for 39th among 73 national universities evaluated for "Best Undergraduate Teaching", tied for 68th out of 83 for "Most Innovative Schools", tied for 86th of 142 for "Best Colleges for Veterans", and tied at 224th of 389 schools for "Top Performers on Social Mobility".[44] The business school was ranked tied for 74th, and the law school tied for 111th, in the U.S. for 2021[45]

For the Class of 2022 (enrolling fall 2018), Chapman received 14,198 applications, accepted 7,605 (53.6%), and enrolled 1,660.[46] For the freshmen who enrolled, the average SAT score was 640 for reading and writing and 638 for math, while the average ACT composite score was 27.9.[46] The average high school GPA was 3.75 (unweighted) on a 4.0 scale[46]

Holocaust education

The Barry and Phyllis Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education was founded by Marilyn Harran, Ph.D., in February 2000. It sponsors an annual Holocaust remembrance writing competition and hosts a regular Distinguished lecture series.[47]

The Sala and Aron Samueli Holocaust Memorial Library, funded by Henry Samueli, is located on the fourth floor of the university's Leatherby Libraries.[48] On April 11, 2005, sixty years after he was liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp, Elie Wiesel dedicated the Samueli Holocaust Memorial Library,[49] and a large bust of Wiesel stands at the entrance to the facility.

The collection includes a first edition of The Diary of Anne Frank in Dutch.[49]

Attallah Piazza and Leatherby Libraries

Controversy

During the Spring Semester of 2019, student protests over the film school's display of twoThe Birth of a Nation posters received national attention.[54] The posters were part of a larger donation from Cecilia DeMille Presley, granddaughter of American filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille, and had been displayed on the first floor of Marion Knott Studios since they were donated to the school in 2007.

During the 2018–2019 school year, Chapman's black student population became more vocal about their discomfort with the display of posters for a film that has been widely criticized for its racist tones, celebration of white supremacy, and use of blackface. The film also is often credited by scholars with reviving the Ku Klux Klan.[55] Though the film is often taught in film school due to its historical importance to the film industry (it is considered to be the first-ever blockbuster),[56] the presence of the film's posters made students feel that the film's message was actually being celebrated.[57] After nearly a month of student protests and two years after a student first started an online petition, the Dodge College faculty voted to remove the posters and return them to the donor.[58]

Notable people

See also: Chapman University School of Law § Faculty

Faculty

Vernon Lomax Smith (born January 1, 1927) is an American economist and professor of business economics and law at Chapman University. He is formerly a professor of economics at the University of Arizona, professor of economics and law at George Mason University, and a board member of the Mercatus Center. Along with Daniel Kahneman, Smith shared the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to behavioral economics and his work in the field of experimental economics. He worked to establish 'laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms'.[1][2]

Smith is the founder and president of the International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics, a Member of the Board of Advisors for The Independent Institute, a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington D.C. In 2004 Smith was honored with an honorary doctoral degree at Universidad Francisco Marroquín,[3] the institution that named the Vernon Smith Center for Experimental Economics Research after him.[4] He was also a founding board member of the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University.[5][6][7]

Smith was born in Wichita, Kansas, where he attended Wichita North High School and Friends University. Grover Bougher, Vernon's mother's first husband, who worked as a fireman on the Santa Fe railroad died in a tragic accident which proved to be pivotal. The life insurance money provided by the Santa Fe railroad was invested in a farm which became the sole means of survival for Vernon's family during the tough years of the Great Depression. While the farm brought hard work and hard times for Vernon's parents, Vernon liked the adventurous experiences. His life-long interest in learning how things work was kindled by his childhood at the farm.[8]

Smith received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Caltech in 1949, an M.A. in economics from the University of Kansas in 1952, and his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1955.[2]

Academic career

Smith's first teaching post was at the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University, which he held from 1955 until 1967, attaining the rank of full professor.[2]

Smith also taught as a visiting associate professor at Stanford University (1961–1962) and there made contact with Sidney Siegel, who was also doing work in experimental economics. Smith moved with his family to Massachusetts and got a position first at Brown University (1967–1968) and then at the University of Massachusetts (1968–1972). Smith also received appointments at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1972–1973) and Caltech (1973–1975).[2]

Much of the research that earned Smith the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was conducted at the University of Arizona between 1976 and 2001. In 2001, Smith left Arizona for George Mason University.[9] From 2003 to 2006, he held the Rasmuson Chair of Economics at the University of Alaska Anchorage.[10][11] In 2008, Smith founded the Economic Science Institute at Chapman University in Orange, California.[12]

Smith has served on the board of editors of the American Economic Review, the Cato Journal, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Science, Economic Theory, Economic Design, and the Journal of Economic Methodology.[7] He also served as an expert for the Copenhagen Consensus.[13]

Academic work

It was at Purdue that Smith's work in experimental economics began. As Smith describes it:

In the Autumn semester, 1955, I taught Principles of Economics, and found it a challenge to convey basic microeconomic theory to students. Why/how could any market approximate a competitive equilibrium? I resolved that on the first day of class the following semester, I would try running a market experiment that would give the students an opportunity to experience an actual market, and me the opportunity to observe one in which I knew, but they did not know what were the alleged driving conditions of supply and demand in that market.[2]

In framing the experiment, Smith varied certain institutional parameters seen in the first classroom economics experiments as conducted by Edward Chamberlin: in particular, he ran the experiments for several trading periods, to give the student subjects time to train.[14]

At Caltech, Charles Plott encouraged Smith to formalize the methodology of experimental economics, which he did in two articles. In 1976, "Experimental Economics: Induced Value Theory" was published in the American Economic Review (AER).[15] It was the first articulation of the principle behind economic experiments. Six years later, these principles were expanded in "Microeconomic Systems as an Experimental Science," also in the AER. This paper adapts the principles of mechanism design, a microeconomic system developed by Leonid Hurwicz, to the development of economic experiments. In Hurwicz's formulation, a microeconomic system consists of an economic environment, an economic institution (or economic mechanism), and an economic outcome. The economic environment is simply the preferences of the people in the economy and the production capabilities of the firms in the economy. The key insight in this formulation is that the economic outcome can be affected by the economic institution. The mechanism design provides a formal means for tests of the performance of an economic institution, and experimental economics, as developed by Smith, provided a means for formal empirical assessment of the performance of economic institutions. The second main contribution of the paper is to the technique of induced values, the method used in controlled laboratory experiments in economics, political science, and psychology, which allows experimental economists to create a replica of a market in a laboratory. Subjects in an experiment are told that they can produce a "commodity" at a cost and then sell it to buyers. The seller earns the difference between the price received and its cost. Buyers are told that the commodity has a value to them when they consume it, and they earn the difference between the value of the commodity to them and its price. Using the technique, Smith and his coauthors have examined the performance of alternative trading mechanisms in resource allocation.[16]

In February 2011, Smith participated in the "Visiting Scholars Series" at the Nicholas Academic Centers in Santa Ana, California, conducted in collaboration with Chapman University. Smith and his colleague Bart Wilson conducted experiments designed to expose high school students from underserved neighborhoods to market dynamics and how concepts such as altruism influence economic behavior.[17]

Smith has authored or coauthored articles and books on capital theory, finance, natural resource economics and experimental economics. He was also one of the first to propose the combinatorial auction design, with Stephen J. Rassenti and Robert L. Bulfin in 1982.[18]

In January 2009, Smith signed a public petition opposing the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.[19] In a 2010 Econ Journal Watch study, Smith was found to be one of the most active petition-signers among US economists.[20]

The Vernon Smith Prize for the Advancement of Austrian Economics is named after him and is sponsored by the European Center of Austrian Economics.[21]

Alumni

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newsweek should disavow racist insinuation that Kamala Harris is not a citizen

Written by Jim Naureckas / FAIR August 14, 2020

Less than 24 hours after Kamala Harris became the first person of color to be chosen as a vice presidential candidate on a major party ticket, Newsweek ran an op-ed (8/13/20) insinuating that she was not a citizen and therefore ineligible to run.

The piece, by former Clarence Thomas law clerk John Eastman, disregarded almost two centuries of Supreme Court jurisprudence to pretend that there is an actual debate over the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” which appears in the 14th Amendment passage that grants automatic citizenship to people born here:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

Newsweek: Some Questions for Kamala Harris About Eligibility

Newsweek (8/12/20) gives a platform to a fringe legal theory that holds Kamala Harris is not actually a US citizen because her parents were immigrants.

Long before the 14th Amendment was passed in 1868, however, the Supreme Court made it clear that children born to residents of the United States were citizens. In Inglis v. Trustees of Sailor’s Snug Harbor, an 1830 case, the Court declared:

Nothing is better settled at the common law than the doctrine that the children even of aliens born in a country while the parents are resident there under the protection of the government and owing a temporary allegiance thereto are subjects by birth.

Generations later, in the 1898 ruling United States v. Wong Kim Ark, the Supreme Court spelled out its understanding of what the 14th Amendment means for citizenship, listing all the categories of people who were not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the US:

The Fourteenth Amendment affirms the ancient and fundamental rule of citizenship by birth within the territory, in the allegiance and under the protection of the country, including all children here born of resident aliens, with the exceptions or qualifications (as old as the rule itself) of children of foreign sovereigns or their ministers, or born on foreign public ships, or of enemies within and during a hostile occupation of part of our territory, and with the single additional exception of children of members of the Indian tribes owing direct allegiance to their several tribes.

(Indigenous Americans were recognized as citizens by Congress in 1924, removing one of the very few exceptions to the birthright citizenship rule.)

Most of a century later, in Plyler v. Doe (1983) the Court reaffirmed that “jurisdiction” is to be understood in “predominantly geographic sense.” The ruling held that “no plausible distinction with respect to 14th Amendment ‘jurisdiction’ can be drawn between resident aliens whose entry into the United States was lawful, and resident aliens whose entry was unlawful.”

In 2018, when President Donald Trump threatened to issue an executive order that he claimed would strip US citizenship from the children of unauthorized immigrants, the Congressional Research Service (11/1/18) summed up the legal situation:

At least since the Supreme Court’s decision in the 1898 case United States v. Wong Kim Ark, the prevailing view has been that all persons born in the United States are constitutionally guaranteed citizenship at birth unless their parents are foreign diplomats, members of occupying foreign forces, or members of Indian tribes…. Because none of these exceptions permits the denial of birthright citizenship based on the alienage of parents who are not diplomats, the case is most often interpreted as barring the federal government from accomplishing such denial through any means other than a constitutional amendment.

Newsweek: Eastman's Newsweek Column Has Nothing to Do With Racist Birtherism

Contrary to Newsweek‘s editors’ note (8/13/20). the column it ran is entirely in the spirit of racist birtherism.

Are there lawyers who believe that the Supreme Court could and should overturn the 122-year-old precedent of Wong Kim Ark and find some new ground for declaring certain US residents not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States? Yes, and they are generally regarded as fringe theorists, motivated by a desire to denaturalize millions of US citizens, overwhelmingly people of color, who are every day recognized as full-fledged Americans for purposes of paying taxes, serving on juries, registering to vote—and running for office. That Newsweek chooses to give a platform to this xenophobic legal quackery is dismaying.

Newsweek‘s global editor in chief Nancy Cooper and opinion editor Josh Hammer published an editors’ note (8/13/20) hours after Eastman’s op-ed appeared, saying that “some of our readers have reacted strongly to the op-ed we published by Dr. John Eastman, assuming it to be an attempt to ignite a racist conspiracy theory around Kamala Harris’ candidacy.” The editors assert:

His essay has no connection whatsoever to so-called “birther-ism,” the racist 2008 conspiracy theory aimed at delegitimizing then-candidate Barack Obama by claiming, baselessly, that he was born not in Hawaii but in Kenya. We share our readers’ revulsion at those vile lies.

Eastman’s column, they claim, “is not an attempt to deny facts or to make false claims. No one is questioning Harris’ place of birth or the legitimacy of an obviously valid birth certificate.” But it is an effort, based on the most far-fetched legal speculation, to assert that Harris is literally not an American because her parents were immigrants. It is the exact same impulse that prompted hatemongers like Donald Trump to question Barack Obama’s right to run for office, motivated by the identical racist ugliness.

ACTION ALERT: Please contact Newsweek‘s editors and demand that they retract the op-ed insinuating that Kamala Harris (like millions of other Americans) is not a US citizen.

CONTACT: You can contact Newsweek here or via Twitter: @Newsweek.

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$5 million to California university from billionaire Charles Koch sparks an uproar

In this file photo, Charles Koch speaks in his office at Koch Industries in Wichita, Kan. The conservative Charles Koch Foundation is dramatically increasing its donations to colleges and universities at a time when its philanthropy is facing increasing scrutiny, according to tax records. The foundation gave nearly $49 million to more than 250 colleges across the U.S. in 2016, according to an Associated Press review of the foundation’s most recent tax records. (Bo Rader/The Wichita Eagle via AP)

By MARGOT ROOSEVELT | Southern California News Group

PUBLISHED: June 11, 2018 at 6:10 am | UPDATED: June 11, 2018 at 6:10 am

A Nobel laureate decries the “hate speech.” The university president accuses faculty critics of seeking to stifle academic freedom. Professors tar each other as “disingenuous,” spreading “baseless lies and accusations.”

The normally tranquil Orange County campus of Chapman University is in the throes of a bitter controversy — all due to a $5 million donation from the Charles Koch Foundation.

The gift from the conservative billionaire helps fund a program in “Humanomics,” which the university defines as “reintegrating the study of the humanities and economics.”

The question at hand: Are political strings attached to the money?

“No other donor would be allowed to pre-select professors based on their ideology,” said Tom Zoellner, an English professor. “Appointments were hustled through without due process or necessary transparency.”

Last fall, the English department voted to reject two candidates for tenured professorships partly funded by the Koch donation. The two literature scholars were later hired by the business school for the interdisciplinary program, but only after the head of an economics hiring committee resigned in protest, citing “a lack of objectivity.”

This spring, more than 50 faculty members attended a forum to debate the Koch gift. And the Chapman University Young Democrats, a student group, sponsored a talk by a co-founder of the national activist group “UnKoch My Campus.”

Chapman University President Daniele Struppa in Orange, CA, on Monday, May 21, 2018. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Chapman University President Daniele Struppa in Orange, CA, on Monday, May 21, 2018. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

At the faculty forum, in newspaper interviews, and in a May 20 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Chapman President Daniele Struppa forcefully defended the Koch donation.

“I don’t think there is an ideological component,” he told the Register. “We can hire whoever we decide to hire.”

Faculty objections are “politically motivated,” Struppa suggested. “The Koch brothers are detested by much of liberal academia… People think they want to control the world.”

Koch’s academic push

Charles Koch, CEO of Koch Industries, the Kansas-based oil and chemicals conglomerate, and his brother David are ranked by Forbes as the 8th richest people in the world, with a net worth of $60 billion each.

The brothers are best known for spending hundreds of millions of dollars to elect conservative Republicans to public office, and to dispute the impact of fossil fuels on the global climate.

Less known is that Charles Koch’s foundation has become one of U.S. academia’s largest private funders. In recent years, it has given an estimated $200 million to colleges and universities, much of it to advance a free-market, anti-regulatory, tax-cutting agenda through think tanks, professorships and conferences.

In 2016, $50 million of the foundation’s $77 million in gifts went to 249 institutions of higher learning, nearly double the amount of the year before. Overall giving rocketed to $120 million in 2017, with donations to more than 300 colleges, according to the foundation.

“The Koch foundation is just one example of a politically motivated donor,” Rudy Fichtenbaum, president of the American Association of University Professors, wrote in the Chronicle of Higher Education last month.

Cuts in government funding, Fichtenbaum contended, have created an opening for “cash-rich corporations, wealthy individuals, and philanthropic foundations to remake public universities into entities that better serve their narrow political and economic objectives.”

Protests have erupted over Koch donations at public universities such as Florida State, Montana State, Arizona State, George Mason University, the University of Utah, the University of Kentucky, the University of Kansas, the University of Arizona, and Western Carolina University.

But private institutions are also vulnerable to government funding cuts and eager for Koch support. Faculty and students at Wellesley College, Wake Forest University and Catholic University have pushed back against the foundation’s gifts, claiming it seeks to exercise ideological influence on faculty hiring.

Faculty and students at George Mason University protested against the Charles Koch Foundation outside a Virginia courthouse in April 2018. A campus group affiliated with UnKoch My Campus filed a lawsuit which forced the university to disclose confidential contracts with the Koch foundation. (Courtesy of UnKoch My Campus)

Faculty and students at George Mason University protested against the Charles Koch Foundation outside a Virginia courthouse in April 2018. A campus group affiliated with UnKoch My Campus filed a lawsuit which forced the university to disclose confidential contracts with the Koch foundation. (Courtesy of UnKoch My Campus)

Questionable contracts?

In April, a student lawsuit forced the disclosure of confidential agreements between the foundation and Virginia’s George Mason, the recipient of some $50 million in Koch gifts. The documents show Koch officials exercised a say in the hiring and performance reviews of the professors who benefited from the donations.

University President Angel Cabrera apologized for contracts that “fall short of the standards of academic independence I expect any gift to meet” and ordered a review of donor policies.

Liberal donors such as the Russell Sage Foundation, the Soros Foundation and the Ford Foundation also give to U.S. academia, but not on the same scale as the Kochs and their allies, according to the news outlet “Inside Philanthropy.”

“Barely a month goes by when we don’t hear news of another large conservative gift going to fund conservative and libertarian thinking on university campuses,” wrote Inside Philanthropy’s Mike Scutari in an article on the Chapman gift and the Koch network. “We can’t think of any progressive donors that fund on a comparably wide and systematic level.”

The Koch foundation declined to respond to requests for comment.

The Chapman donation, like many of Koch’s grants, funds an academic center focused on economics, but one aimed at drawing liberal arts majors into courses exploring the moral underpinnings of capitalism. It is the foundation’s largest gift to a California institution so far, according to its tax returns.

The new $15.18 million Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy is jointly named for Adam Smith, the 18th century economist whose influential work, “The Wealth of Nations,” extolled laissez-faire capitalism, and for Vernon Smith, a Chapman economist who won a 2002 Nobel Prize.

Chapman University's Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy was founded in December 2016 with a $5 million donation from the Charles Koch Foundation and two other gifts. It has touched off a controversy on campus over whether its hiring and its research are ideologically influenced by the conservative foundation. (Photo by Margot Roosevelt, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Chapman University’s Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy. (Photo by Margot Roosevelt, Orange County Register/SCNG)

The institute’s interdisciplinary research will “provide intellectual support for how liberty and markets make us both prosperous and ethical,” according to the proposal given to donors.

“Koch has been a force in a number of institutions that are champions of freedom,” economist Smith said in an interview, adding that he first met Charles Koch in the 1970s and later served with him on the Koch-funded Mercatus Center, George Mason’s influential conservative think tank.

“Koch wants to create people who are better informed intellectually to go into government jobs.”

Humanomics

The money, disbursed over five years, will help pay to hire 11 professors, five post-doctoral fellows, visiting academics and conferences. They are to include scholars in economics, politics, philosophy and literature.

Smith said he first approached the Koch foundation in late 2015 to find matching donors for an anonymous $5 million challenge grant from an Orange County investor.

Koch officials agreed to contribute $5 million, and they obtained a third major gift from Gavin Herbert, Smith said. Herbert is a founder and former CEO of the pharmaceutical giant Allergan Inc. and a member of the Koch brothers’ political network.

Dr. Vernon Smith, Chapman University professor of economics and law, attends a course on "Humanomics: Adam Smith and the Morality of Markets" with students on the Orange campus. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Vernon Smith, Chapman University professor of economics and law, attends a course on “Humanomics: Adam Smith and the Morality of Markets” with students on the Orange campus. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Before coming to Chapman, Smith had received Koch grants in 1999 to move his academic group from the University of Arizona to George Mason University, money that was raised by Struppa, who was then George Mason’s Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

At Chapman, Smith’s chair was endowed with $3 million from William Dunn, a Florida financier who has given tens of millions of dollars to libertarian causes and has served on the boards of the Koch-funded Reason Foundation and Cato Institute.

“When you look at the idea of combining economics and humanities, it sounds benign,” said English professor Ian Barnard. “But most if not all the Koch hires have the same libertarian politics. Is this a coincidence?

“My students expressed horror,” Barnard added. “They said: The Koch foundation already has economics and business (majors) and now it wants to get to the English majors who are seen as liberal. That is the nefarious side.”

The texts in Chapman’s Humanomics course last fall were “The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce,” a defense of capitalist ethics by Dierdre McCloskey, a self-described “Christian libertarian,” and Matt Ridley’s “The Rational Optimist,” which posits markets as the driver of human progress.

Hate speech?

Last month, following a spate of Koch-related articles in Chapman’s student newspaper, The Panther, Smith dismissed the critics. Writing in the paper’s comments section, he said “getting adequate support for our ambitions for Chapman is not aided by people exercising their right to hate speech.”

In the same thread, faculty president David Pincus accused critics of “baseless lies and accusations” in asserting that strings were attached to the donation.

Chapman’s Koch grant, although it was mentioned in a December 2016 announcement of the institute’s creation, might have gone unremarked but for an uproar in the English department last fall.

The department was asked to hire two tenured professors to teach institute courses, but after examining their credentials, two-thirds of the department voted against the candidates.

Some faculty felt their expertise was not in areas the English department needed. Others thought they lacked strong qualifications. And others questioned whether they were chosen more for ideology than for scholarship.

One candidate, Duke University’s Michael Moses, had been a contributing editor to Reason, the libertarian magazine. His new wife, Miami University’s Katharine Gillespie, was to be a spousal hire, a common practice in academic recruitment.

Moses came recommended by Smith, who said they had met “years ago at a Liberty Fund colloquium.” The fund is an Indiana-based free-market think tank.

When the English department turned down Moses and Gillespie, they were hired by the business school where Smith teaches, as does institute director Bart Wilson, also a former George Mason professor.

An ‘ideological component?’

That move, which some saw as an end-run around the English department’s scholarly judgment, touched off a broader university debate over academic freedom.

“It was not appropriate to hire them into the business school,” said economist Daniel Kovenock, who resigned as chair of a faculty review committee rather than accept the two hires.

“They were not economists. They were not doing work we would consider to be a reason to provide such an appointment.”

The Smith Institute has “an ideological component,” Kovenock added. “It sounds innocuous, but we know when you talk about expanding support for free markets, it means you are against regulations, such as pollution controls.

“Suppose your research finds regulations are effective, but a donation depends on a particular ideology. Then you have a conflict of interest not to report the results.”

Faculty critics note the Koch donation is to be doled out in $1 million annual increments, and funding can be canceled by Koch with 30 days notice under its contract with Chapman – provisions they see as proof of implicit influence.

Meanwhile, the 11 new professors are funded for just five years, but the fact that many of them are hired with tenure guarantees the Koch influence will persist beyond the donation’s time frame, critics say.

Control may not be explicit, Kovenock said, “but it’s a wink and a nod.”

Struppa counters, “Termination clauses exist in every contract from every foundation.”

Moreover, he adds, the Koch money “is irrelevant. We have a $400 million budget. This is a million per year donation. If the million dollars went away tomorrow morning, we wouldn’t even notice it.”

Students divided

And not all the hiring for the Smith Institute has been rocky. The philosophy department, without incident, brought on Bas van der Vossen from the University of North Carolina, a specialist in political philosophy and ethics, and co-author of the 2017 “Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism.”

“I hold libertarian ideas,” van der Vossen wrote in a Panther op-ed. “I believe that market economies generally make people better off, rich and poor. But… I am a philosopher first, and a philosopher’s job is to seek the truth, following the arguments wherever they might lead.”

Students seem divided over whether the Koch donation matters.

“This is a hot-button issue,” said Olivia Kellett, a music major from Rancho Santa Margarita. “You can tell strings are attached by the professors being hired and the ideology being taught.”

Olivia Kellett, 22, was chair of the Chapman University Young Democrats which invited a representative of UnKoch My Campus in April to give a talk about the Charles Koch Foundation. The foundation is accused by some faculty and students of undue influence in the hiring of professors for a new campus institute. (Photo by Margot Roosevelt, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Olivia Kellett, 22, was chair of the Chapman University Young Democrats which invited a representative of UnKoch My Campus in April to give a talk about the Charles Koch Foundation. The foundation is accused by some faculty and students of undue influence in the hiring of professors for a new campus institute. (Photo by Margot Roosevelt, Orange County Register/SCNG)

But Max Lopez, a political science major from Long Beach, said his Humanomics course last fall “was not telling us how to think…I’m pretty liberal. It offered me a different perspective.”

In May, responding to calls for transparency, Struppa allowed a Panther editor and the faculty president to view the university’s confidential contract with Koch. But the foundation insisted, and Struppa agreed, they could not take notes, photographs or quote directly from the document.

“I’m not going to break my relationship over a confidentiality clause,” Struppa said, adding that the contract has “nothing in violation of anything.”

Academic freedom

And if Koch critics view the issue as one of academic freedom, so does Struppa. “Vernon Smith has a freaking Nobel Prize,” Struppa said. “If I told him don’t take Koch money, that would violate his academic freedom. He’s not asking for money from the Mafia.”

Moreover, for Chapman, the Koch connection is lucrative beyond the $5 million. In January, Struppa gave a half-hour talk on academic freedom in Indian Wells, at the Koch brothers’ annual summit for more than 550 wealthy donors in its political network.

“At least one person who was there made a significant donation to Chapman University after the speech,” Struppa said.

In July, Struppa will double down on his public relations offensive, giving a talk in Las Vegas at Freedom Fest, the annual libertarian confab. His title: “Antonio Gramsci and the Cultural Revolution: How Marxists Took Over Higher Education, and How to Take It Back.”

“My title is supposed to be catchy,” Struppa said, explaining that Gramsci was a founder of the Italian Communist Party whose ideas became influential in academia.

“But I don’t think one should go, as some have suggested, towards affirmative action for conservatives. That is a silly idea. What we should be doing is to ensure there is free speech.”

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wiki Chapman University School of Law - Wikipedia

Other members of the Chapman Law faculty include Constitutional law and legal ethics scholarRonald D. Rotunda.[23] Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, the author of Painting the Map Red, The Fight To Create A Permanent Republican Majority and A Mormon In The White House, 10 Things Every American Should Know About Mitt Romney, is also a Professor ofConstitutional Law.

Also notable is Professor Larry Rosenthal, a former Supreme Court clerk for Justice John Paul Stevens, who as Deputy Corporation Counsel for the City of Chicago argued the case ofChicago v. Morales, 527 U.S. 41 (1999), among other cases, and Professor Danny Bogart, a property law expert and member of the American Law Institute. Visiting Professors have included progressive international law scholar Richard A. Falk,[24] W. H. (Joe) Knight, Jr., a noted scholar and member of the American Law Institute, and controversial law professor and former Bush Administration official John Yoo.

The Honorable James E. Rogan has served as an adjunct professor at Chapman Law for many years. While a member of Congress, Rogan was one of the lead prosecutors in the United States Senate impeachment trial of President Clinton in 1998-1999, and later served as U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and as Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. In 2006 Governor Schwarzenegger appointed Rogan to the Superior Court of California.[25]

Chapman Law's faculty includes four former U.S. Supreme Court law clerks,[26] including Professors Rosenthal and Campbell (above), as well as former Dean Eastman, and former Associate Dean Celestine McConville.[27]

John C. Eastman, former Dean of Chapman University of Law and current professor of constitutional law is the Chair of the Board of the National Organization for Marriage, a non-profit organization committed to preventing the legalization of same-sex marriage. Eastman publicly opposed the granting of a law license to Sergio C. Garcia, the first undocumented immigrant to be admitted to the California Bar. Eastman said, "He's here unlawfully. He's not gone back to his home country and sought to apply like everybody else who had waited in line."[28]

Law journals

Chapman Law has two law publications: the Chapman Law Review,[29] and the Nexus Journal of Law and Policy,[30] a student edited journal with an accompanying blog.[31]

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