Tom Campbell On Alternative Political Worlds

The decisions of a new President and a reconstituted Congress will either reset the environment in which state and local governments and local economies operate or permit them to continue languish in a hazy policy purgatory. Issues left to fester in Washington’s political struggles – transportation funding, immigration reform, education financing, tax, trade, and an array international trade and political policy issues… all and many others still await meaningful resolution. Tom Campbell, Five-term Bay-Area Congressman and currently Professor of Law and Professor of Economics at Chapman University will talk about the alternative outcomes of the November election and their local impacts at the Chamber May 18, member luncheon. Campbell, who also served at the Director of Finance for the State of California and as the Director of the Bureau of Competition for the Federal Trade Commission, will describe some of the possible election-outcome scenarios and then discuss their likely impacts on key issues facing the State of California and its communities. Join us May 18, 11:30 to 1:30 at the Inn at Pasatiempo. This event is sponsored by the Advancement Fund of the Past Presidents of the Chamber’s Board of Directors.

About Thomas Campbell
Tom Campbell is a Professor of Law and a Professor of Economics at Chapman University. He served as dean of the Fowler School of Law at Chapman, and, before that, dean of the Haas School of Business at Berkeley. Campbell was a United States Congressman for five terms, a California State Senator, Director of Finance for the State of California, Director of the Bureau of Competition of the Federal Trade Commission, a tenured law professor at Stanford, a White House Fellow in the office of the Chief of Staff at the White House, law clerk to US Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White, and US Court of Appeals Judge George MacKinnon. He is the author of Separation of Powers in Practice, a constitutional law book published by Stanford University Press, and numerous articles in law reviews, including Harvard, Stanford, UCLA, Columbia, Hastings and Texas. He is a weekly columnist for the Orange County Register. He is married to Susanne Campbell, a Russian specialist and former director of the joint program between St. Petersburg University School of Management and the University of California, Berkeley. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago and law degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard. He was Chairman of the World Affairs Council of Northern California, and is a Member of the American Law Institute.