Now, this makes no sense: guy hired and fired in the same week to run a new organization.
UC Irvine, which recently got approval to start a law school, last week hired Duke’s Erwin Chemerinsky, a prominent constitutional law scholar, to be its inaugural dean — and then fired him yesterday because of his political views.
I’ve heard good things about Chemerinsky; I’ve heard him interviewed and he sounds pretty capable and willing to listen, able to survive in a diversity of opinion. That said, I don’t know anything else about the man or UC Irvine. I wonder what’s really going on here.
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September 12th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
Chap,
He is on Hugh Hewitt’s show weekly. Hugh has him appearing with John Eastman, a conservative. I understand that he’s real sharp; but, *very* liberal, If you ever catch the show, you’ll see what I mean.
Guy
September 12th, 2007 at 10:38 pm
As a matter of fact, Eastman is now being interviewed on Hewitt’s show and he said that Chamer….was hired as a “co-dean” with Eastman at UC Irvine. Hmm…strange.
September 12th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
Chap,
As a matter of fact, Eastman is now beig interviewed on Hewitt’s show and it seems that the original intent was to hire Chemerinsky as a “co-dean” with Eastmen at UCI. Hmm…strange.
September 13th, 2007 at 3:31 am
UCI needs to reconsider this whole law school issue. i’m sorry that anyone was torched during the process of setting this thing up, but based on the initial premise behind the school, well, i can’t say i’m too sorry.
i posted a screed about the law school concept a couple of weeks ago at http://bothenook.blogspot.com/2007/07/just-another-example-in-long-line.html