IRVINE, Calif. -- In a showdown over academic freedom, a prominent legal scholar said Wednesday that the University of California, Irvine's chancellor had succumbed to conservative political pressure in rescinding his contract to head the university's new law school, a charge the chancellor vehemently denied.
Erwin Chemerinsky, a well-known liberal expert on constitutional law, said he had signed a contract Sept. 4, only to be told Tuesday by Chancellor Michael V. Drake that he was voiding their deal because Chemerinsky was too liberal and the university had underestimated "conservatives out to get me."
The preceding material was from the LA Times. I do not share Erwin Chemerinsky's views, but he may well be the finest law professor in the United States and this was indeed a colossal blunder. They would be wise to reconsider.
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see what I get for listening to talk radio, even I heard about this in Waco! I must be getting old, they should all just come to the Baylor Law school, it has one of the highest %'s of people that pass the bar in the country. Then again it's not quite in Irvine. What's up with your school Eric?
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