July 25, 2008

High-Profile Hires at U. of California at Irvine's Law School; Indiana State U. Picks a New President

By KATHERINE MANGAN and ALLIE GRASGREEN

A FRESH START: The brouhaha over the hiring, firing, and rehiring of the inaugural law dean at the University of California at Irvine doesn't appear to have hurt recruiting. The law school announced this month that it has hired a group of nationally known scholars and administrators, including the incoming president of the Association of American Law Schools, to help get the new school going.

Last year, the university's chancellor, Michael V. Drake, flip-flopped on hiring Erwin

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