Thomas Lifson observes:
The nascent law school designed to produce left wing lawyers (aka "public interest lawyers") is reported to be considering the perfect dean: UC Irvine is talking with Erwin Chemerinsky, according to the Los Angeles Times. Despite being declared unnecessary by the official body charged with evaluating higher education proposals, the University of California Irvine is pressing ahead, and with a $20 million donation in hand from Orange County billionaire Donald Bren, the newly-named Donald Bren School of Law is able to hire away.
Nobody denies that Chemerinsky is a smart and agile legal thinker (and talker). But he is also about as left wing as they come [intellectual division], the favorite superstar of the (needless to say, left) establishment in law, journalism, activism, and "public interest" circles.
Both Lifson and I have previously observed that the people behind new UC Irvine law school aren't being very subtle about their plans that the school have a distinct tilt to the left. Just once I'd like to see a new law school founded on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, judicial modesty, and the like. But I'm not going to hold my breath.
