LA Times: Professor's contract rescinded--Too Liberal

[bluestateboomer]

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."

Later Wednesday, however, Drake said there had been no outside pressure and that he had decided to reject Chemerinsky, now of Duke University and formerly of the University of Southern California, because he felt the law professor's commentaries were "polarizing" and would not serve the interests of California's first new public law school in 40 years.

News of Drake's decision quickly came made its way through academic and legal circles nationally where it came under criticism from liberals and conservatives scholars who said Chemerinsky was being unfairly penalized.

<http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ucilaw13sep13,0,5893599.story?coll=la-home-local>

[redqueen]

1. Is it fascism yet?

:puke:

[Greyhound]

9. Oh no, we are still able to post on the internetz and only a few people are "disappeared"

every day and the tanks are not rolling through the streets, so of course it isn't fascism. Silly Queen.:tinfoilhat:

I can't wait for the new TV season, I hear Sanjay is going to get his own show.:eyes:

:thumbsup:

[redqueen]

10. Oh God...

I hope that's a joke... Sanjaya?

*sigh*

[Greyhound]

11. Sarcastic Joke, yes

:kick:

[damntexdem]

2. Who are they going to get now?

Hey, maybe they can get someone who's left the Administration. Think Gonzo would like Orange County?

;-)

[WCGreen]

4. Ken Starr....

[AX10]

3. This is tyranny!

The right wing wants to control everything in this country. They are oppressors, not Americans.

[yardwork]

5. This is outrageous. I hope that the school can't find anyone to take the job.

[StClone]

6. Relax

Hope Chemerinsky gets another gig and exposes this attack on Academia.

[yardwork]

7. He's already got a good gig at Duke

And he seems to be doing a good job exposing this.

[grassfed]

8. Chemerinsky represented Rachel Corrie's family

Erwin Chemerinsky represented the Corrie family in its suit against Caterpillar, the company that made the armored bulldozer that crushed young Rachel Corrie in Gaza in '03.

http://www.catdestroyshomes.org/article.php?id=557

mystery solved