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Law school dean fired for liberal ‘political views.’

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About a week ago, the new law school at the University of California at Irvine hired Erwin Chemerinsky, a well-known constitutional scholar, as the school’s inaugural Dean. But yesterday, Michael V. Drake, Irvine’s chancellor, fired him, “saying that he had not been aware of how Chemerinsky’s political views would make him a target for criticism from conservatives.” Chemerinsky confirmed his firing to the Wall Street Journal today:

The chancellor “said he hadn’t expected that I would be such a target for conservatives, a lightning rod. It’s clear that significant opposition developed,” though the chancellor didn’t specify where it was coming from. […]

“Obviously I’m sad because it’s something I was excit[ed] about. I’m angry because I don’t believe anyone liberal or conservative should be denied a position like this because of political views.”

UPDATE: The LA Times notes that April 2005, Chemerinsky “was named one of ‘the top 20 legal thinkers in America’ by Legal Affairs magazine.”

HL’s Take
C’mon this is California for christ’s sake. UC Irvine is in Orange County, which is still a Republican bastion, although not as much as it was a few years ago. A lot of people down there still have “W” stickers on their cars. (hey who cares how much Bush screws up the country and how many people die, as long as we still have the place in Newport) Of course it’s OK that the head of Pepperdine’s Law School is none other then the man who wasted $70 Million investigating Bill Clinton’s zipper, and came away with nothing, Ken Starr. Yes that is a private school. I didn’t even know that Irvine had a law school. Tell you what though I would never hire a lawyer that went there. If you want to go to law school, or need to hire an attorney, get one from a real law school like UCLA

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