teemping he serbed as assistant majority counsel for the watergate committee before joining the chapman faculty, he was professor of law at george mason university and prior to that position he was the albert e. jenner producer at the university of illinois. professor rotunda is a making in a cumlaude at harvard law school where he was a member of the harvard law review. he also clerked for judge walter r. mansfield of the united states court of appeals for the second circuit. professor rotunda is the author of the most widely used core spoken legal ethics and the leading course book in constitutional law which makes him quite possibly the most applicable moderator for this panel today. we're lucky to have him here at chapman. choefr rotunda has authored more than 300 articles in various law reviews, journals, and newspapers in both the united states and across europe, and as dean campbell mentioned earlier, that makes him as of a few years ago, the 11th most cited professor. in 2009 professor rotunda became a commissioner of the fair political practices commission, a state regulatory agency th

we are rich in history at chapman although the law school is relatively young. as a tribute to our students and faculty that we have achieved so much in the time that we have had, and all of it before i came here. i'm particularly proud of the work the students did in putting on our seminar this morning. vial a few words at lunch about my colleague, professor ron rotunda. but i do wish to recognize history men douse contribution as well as in making this possible. in the remainder of my time this morning, i had a substantive point to make. let me proceed to try to do so. it draws upon the fact that i have been a law professor and a politician, a member of congress, and that has given me some perspective from the point of view of separation of powers. so i'll begin with this observation that united states verses nixon, the supreme court opinion, the 8-0 opinion that upheld the subpoena of the tapes in the watergate case was very, very rare. it is very, very unusual for the judicial branch to come down so strongly against the executive branch. i have a couple of theories as to why that occurred. but i do