UCI reportedly working on deal to rehire Chemerinsky

[Liberal_in_LA]

(** comment - UCI's chancellor painted himself into a corner. Anyone else he offers the job would be tainted if they accepted. The assumption would be that they don't have academic freedom)

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-uci15sep15,0,1791213.story?coll=la-home-center

UCI reportedly working on deal to rehire Chemerinsky

Days after the legal scholar was rejected as as law school dean , talks are in progress. He is noncommittal.
By Garrett Therolf and Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
September 15, 2007

UC Irvine officials on Friday were attempting to broker a deal to once again hire liberal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky as dean of its fledging law school, just three days after its chancellor set off a national furor by dumping him.

Prominent Orange County attorney Tom Malcolm, a participant in high-level university discussions, said: "I think we are satisfied that if have a meeting, they can come to some understanding, and can become a good dean."

Chemerinsky, who would have been the school's first dean, was noncommittal about whether he would still take the UCI job. "I have nothing to say about it. I haven't thought about it," he said.

An agreement would be an extraordinary development after Chemerinsky contended this week that Drake succumbed to political pressure from conservatives and sacked him because of his outspoken liberal positions. The flap threatened to derail the 2009 opening of the law school and prompted some calls for Drake's resignation.

[LeftCoast]

1. Drake needs to resign

This has given yet another black eye to UCI and it was totally self-inflicted as well as unnecessary.

[n2doc]

2. Agreed, his deceptions here merit his removal

I can't see him surviving this. Hope they do offer the job to Chemerinsky. It should be up to him to decide to take it..