Professor Chemerinsky

According to Leiter’s report, about a week ago Chemerinsky signed a contract to be the dean of Irvine’s Donald Bren School of Law. But Yesterday, Irvine’s chancellor, Michael V. Drake, flew to Duke and fired Chemerinsky, “saying that he had not been aware of how Chemerinsky’s political views would make him a target for criticism from conservatives,” according to the report.
Chemerinsky said, “Obviously I’m sad because it’s something I was exciting about. I’m angry because I don’t believe anyone liberal or conservative should be denied a position like this because of political views.”

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Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports, a blog on comings-and-goings in legal academia

Erwin Chemerinsky (pictured), a prominent constitutional law scholar
Times story on Chemerinsky
Irvine’s Donald Bren School of Law
Donald Bren, a billionaire real estate developer and big Republican donor, click here

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