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Two Southern California law schools - USC and Chapman - have invited Erwin Chemerinsky to be their commencement speaker. Chemerinsky is a noted constitutional law scholar, but he’s also the newly appointed Dean of the newly created UC-Irvine law school. It’s a curious business model that gives one of your newest competitors one of your most prominent bully pulpit opportunities. Does Steve Jobs let Bill Gates give a keynote speech at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference? personally, if I were Dean of a Southern California law school, I’d be looking to Tony Soprano for guidance in dealing with UC-Irvine, which is probably one more of the many good reasons I’m not a dean.
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It is so very curious that Chapman, which will likely become the top feeder of transfer students to Irvine, asked him to speak. Irvine is essentially the death knell for Chapman’s hopes of improving its student body quality (GPA & LSAT)!
Irvine will further ensure Chapman’s place outside the top 100 U.S. law schools (U.S. News wise). Wow! What could Chemerinsky possibly say to encourage these kids???
I think SC has some time before it needs to be concerned with Irvine, but still an odd choice, notwithstanding Chemerinsky’s long history there.
P.S., Loyola is apparently looking for a dean, Prof. Bainbridge...I’m sure they’d overlook any of your “good reasons”!