Update on yesterday’s post on the shocking firing of Erwin Chemerinsky less than a week after his hiring as the inaugural dean of the new UC-Irvine law school: 

• Statements from Chemerinsky and UC-Irvine Chancellor
• Above the Law:  Chemerinskygate: Dean for a Day?, by David Lat
• American Thinker:  The Perfect Candidate, by Thomas Lifson
• Appellate Law & Practice:  Chemerinsky Hired Then Fired for Political Reasons
• Associated Press: Legal Scholar’s UC Deanship Withdrawn, by Gillian Flaccus
• BlackProf.com:  Guest Post by Professor Trina Jones of Duke Law School on Erwin Chemerinsky
• Gay Patriot:  Conservative (& Libertarian) Bloggers Defend Liberal Law Professor
• Inside Higher Ed:  Law School Deanship Rescinded; Politics Blamed, by Doug Lederman
• InstaPundit, by Glenn Reynolds:
  • Okay, This Is Just Weird
  • More on the Chemerinsky Story
  • Stop the Presses
• L.A. Times:
  • Chemerinsky Says UC Irvine Rescinds Offer to Become Law School Dean," by Garrett Therolf & Henry Weinstein
  • In Chemerinsky’s Defense; No Matter What Your Politics, UC Irvine’s Treatment of the Legal Scholar Was Wrong (op-ed), by Douglas W. Kmiec
  • Politicized UC Regents? The Irvine Chancellor Claimed Fear of a Politically Bent Board of Regents in Unhiring Erwin Chemerinsky, But History Suggests It’s Off-base (op-ed), by Amina Khan
  • Righties Defend Dismissed Lefty Dean Chemerinsky
  • UC Irvine’s Cowardice; Rescinding Erwin Chemerinsky’s Job Offer as the School’s Founding Law Dean Was an Act of Self-destructiveness (editorial)
  • UC Irvine reverses field on Chemerinsky, by arrett Therolf & Henry Weinstein
• Minding the Campus: Reforming Our Universities:  A Political Target, by John Leo
• MoneyLaw:  Score:  Chemerinsky 1; UC Irvine, Academic Freedom 0, by Nancy Rapoport
• National Law Journal:  UC Irvine Drops Chemerinsky; Conservative Members of UC Board of Regents Opposed Chemerinsky’s Liberal Politics, by Amanda Bronstad
• News & Observer:  Prof Too Divisive for Deanship? UC-Irvine Withdraws its Offer to Duke’s Chemerinsky, by Jane Stancill
• PrawfsBlawg:  Could This be True???, by Sam Kamin
• PointofLaw.com, by Walter Olson
  • Chemerinsky as Dean of New UC Irvine Law School?
  • Irvine-Chemerinsky Train Wreck
• ProfessorBainbridge.com, by Stephen Bainbridge:
  • The UC Irvine Law School
  • Chemerinsky Out at UC Irvine
• The Recorder:  Calif. Law School Dumps Chemerinsky as Founding Dean, by Zusha Elinson
• Townhall.com, by Hugh Hewitt
  • UCI’s Disgrace
  • UCI’s Disgrace, Part 2
• The Volokh Conspiracy:
  • Incompetence, Cowardice, or Willful Self-Destruction?, by Stuart Benjamin
  • Regents’ Veto of Erwin Chemerinsky as Dean of the New UCI Law School, by Eugene Volokh
  • UC Irvine Chancellor Michael Drake’s Statement on the Decision to Rescind the Offer to Erwin Chemerinsky, by Ilya Somin
  • UC Irvine Law School Foolishly Rescinds Offer of Dean Position to Erwin Chemerinsky Because of Fear of Offending Conservatives, by Ilya Somin
• Wall Street Journal Law Blog:  The O.C. — Law School Edition, by Amir Efrati
• WorkplaceProf Blog
  • Chemerinsky Gets Fired After 1-Week Deanship, by Rick Bales
  • The Chemerinsky "Firing" and First Amendment Retaliation, by Paul Secunda