The newly reinstated dean-to-be of the future UC Irvine law school will be next year's commencement speaker at the rival Chapman University law school. The dean there, John Eastman, has had some of the best perspective on the whole episode. He says playfully, "I’m extremely pleased that Professor Chemerinsky will indeed become the dean of the new UCI law school, and that the ‘freeway series’ between Chapman, the county’s top private law school, and UCI, the county’s top public law school, will soon begin. I can’t wait for the rivalry to start – it can only be good for Orange County."