The Chronicle: Hiring Debacle Prompts Damage Control and Conflicting Views at UC-Irvine
Officials at the University of California at Irvine are scrambling to try to undo the damage caused by the chancellor’s sudden decision last week to rescind a contract offered to Erwin Chemerinsky, a prominent Duke University law professor, to be Irvine’s inaugural law-school dean. One possibility that was reportedly being pursued: rescinding the rescission and hiring the outspoken liberal after all.
Whether he would consider such an offer is another matter. “I really don’t know how I’d feel about that,” the Duke professor said on Saturday. “This has been one of the longest and hardest weeks of my life, and it’s hard to start thinking in those terms.”
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