September 21, 2007

UC-Irvine Rescinds Law-Dean Offer; Harvard Endowment Chief to Step Down; Former College President Takes Visiting Post at Emory

By KATHERINE MANGAN and MATT PETRIE

WITHDRAWN: One week after signing a contract to become the inaugural law dean at the University of California at Irvine, Erwin Chemerinsky had a personal visit from the man he expected to be his new boss. But the chancellor hadn't come to North Carolina, where Mr. Chemerinsky is a law and political-science professor at Duke University, to talk about Mr. Chemerinsky's plans for the new law school. He came to retract the offer because, Mr. Chemerinsky said, of the professor's liberal political