The Off-Again On-Again Dean at UC Irvine

UC Irvine’s “new law school will be founded on the bedrock principle of academic freedom.” That’s according to Chancellor Michael Drake and Erwin Chemerinsky - who was hired as the founding dean of the law school on Labor Day, then let go last week. A UCI professor gathered 633 signatures protesting the action, and the national outcry included an editorial in the New York Times. Today, Chemerinksy was hired again and he accepted.