On Sunday, we blogged the push by a "substantial majority" of the Michigan State tenured law faculty to oust Dean Terence L. Blackburn.  Brian Leiter reports on two sources:

• An "informed observer from another law school" claims that "the ‘uprising’ may have more to do with senior faculty from the Detroit College of Law days resisting the academic turn of the law school now that the old Detroit College of Law is part of Michigan State University; the current Dean has, I am told, aggressively led that move."
• A Michigan State faculty member claims "it is false–demonstrably false–to say that the ‘uprising’ against the Dean at Michigan State is about ‘resisting the academic turn of the law school.’ Everyone I have talked to about this is infuriated to see such a large portion of the faculty described that way."