Final Chemerinsky-UC-Irvine Roundup

• Chronicle of Higher Education:  Hiring Debacle Prompts Damage Control and Conflicting Views at UC-Irvine, by Katherine Mangan
• Dorf on Law:  Dorf on Leiter on Althouse on Dorf on Chemerinsky, or Am I Really an Arrogant Snob?, by Mike Dorf
• L.A. Times:
  • Controversy Timeline:  The Firing and Rehiring of Erwin Chemerinsky
  • 'Fess Up, Chancellor Drake; The Climate for Free Speech Will Remain Chilled, and the Political Atmosphere Poisonous, For as Long as We Don't Know Why the UC Irvine Leader Unhired Erwin Chemerinsky in the First Place (editorial)
  • UCI, Chemerinsky Putting on a Happy Face; Chancellor and New Law School Dean Are All Smiles, but Questions About Breakup-to-Makeup Ado Remain Unanswered, by Dana Parsons
  • UC Irvine Rehires Chemerinsky as Dean; The School's Chancellor Flies East to Re-recruit the Legal Scholar, Whom He Had Earlier Fired, by Garrett Therolf & Richard C. Paddock
• National Law Journal:  Chemerinsky's Back In as UC Irvine Law Dean; Nearly 60 UCLA Faculty Criticized Chancellor's Decision and Asked Him to Reinstate Duke Law Professor as Founding Law Dean, by Amanda Bronstad
• New York Times:  Furor Ends in Deanship for Liberal Scholar, by Adam Liptak
• News & Observer:  Professor Will be Dean After All; UC-Irvine, Duke Scholar Reconcile, by Jane Stancill
• WSJ Law Blog:  Chemerinsky: The End of the L’Affaire?, by Amir Efrati

Prior TaxProf Blog coverage of the Chemerinsky-UC-Irvine saga below the fold:

• Chemerinsky Accepts Deanship at UC-Irvine (9/17/07)
• Chemerinsky-UC Irvine, Day 6 (9/17/07)
• Chemerinsky Mulls Return to UC-Irvine; L.A. Times Airs Debate on Role of Law School Deans as Advocates (9/16/07)
• L.A. Times:  UC-Irvine Trying to Rehire Chemerinsky (9/15/07)
• Chemerinsky-UC Irvine, Part III (9/14/07)
• More on Firing of Erwin Chemerinsky, UC-Irvine's Inaugural Dean (9/13/07)
• UC-Irvine Hires, Then Fires, Chemerinsky as Inaugural Dean (9/12/07)