Hiring Debacle Prompts Damage Control and Conflicting Views at UC-Irvine

By KATHERINE MANGAN

Officials at the University of California at Irvine are scrambling to try to undo the damage caused by the chancellor's sudden decision last week to rescind a contract offered to Erwin Chemerinsky, a prominent Duke University law professor, to be Irvine's inaugural law-school dean. One possibility...