September 12, 2007

UC Irvine steps in it

UC Irvine is starting a new law school, and they're starting it with a dumb move. The school offered and then withdrew the offer of the dean's job to Erwin Chemerinsky, a nationally respected constitutional law scholar who happens to be a liberal. Too liberal for Orange County, according to this OC Register story, which says the Duke University professor was told his hiring was provoking protest from the community. Funny thing is one of his biggest fans is John Eastman, the very conservative dean of Chapman University's law school, who says withdrawing the offer was a "huge misstep" by UCI and adds that he is now recruiting Chemerinsky to come to his school instead.

Posted by dweintraub on September 12, 2007 2:28 PM