From Brian Leiter's Law School Reports:

About a week ago, Erwin Chemerinsky, the well-known constitutional law scholar at Duke, signed a contract to be the inaugural Dean of the new law school at the University of California at Irvine.

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.

Inappropriate political influences aside, how on earth does a university chancellor get all the way through an interview process with Erwin Chemerinsky and not know that he'd be criticized by conservatives? Seriously.

[Brian Leiter's Law School Reports] New UC Irvine Law School Hires Chemerinsky as Dean, Then Fires Him for Political Reasons