The University of California at Irvine is hiring Erwin Chemerinsky as its law dean after all. In a news conference that is still going on, the university’s chancellor, Michael V. Drake, is announcing that Mr. Chemerinsky, a professor at Duke University, will become the law school’s inaugural dean, less than a week after Dr. Drake drew an avalanche of criticism for at first offering Mr. Chemerinsky the job, then withdrawing the offer because he was “too politically controversial” — which many critics viewed as code words for “too liberal.”
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