Erwin Chemerinsky, on whose reported candidacy for the proposed new UC Irvine Law School I commented here, has been hired and then fired before he even got to start the job, according to this report by Brian Leiter, a professor of Law at the University of Texas, later confirmed by the professor himself, speaking to the Wall Street Journal Law Blog.Professor Leiter comments:Yesterday, the Chancellor of the University of Cailfornia at Irvine flew to Durham and fired Chemerinsky, saying that he had not been aware of how Chemerinsky's political views would make him a target for criticism from conservatives. It is quite amazing that in a purportedly liberal state like California, the Chancellor of a major UC campus has apparently caved into political pressure from conservatives, even though, on the merits, Chemerinsky was a far more prominent scholar than the University had any reason to suppose it would be able to land for a brand new law school.  It’s fair to say that the...(Read Full Post)