Erwin Chemerinsky is Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law.at Berkeley Law. He is the author of The Conservative Assault on the Constitution, The Case against the Supreme Court and, most recently, Free Speech on Campus.
Chemerinsky is the founding dean of the Law School at the University of California Irvine. Prior to that, he taught law at the University of Southern California and Duke Law School, where he specialized in constitutional law. He is one of the co-authors of the Los Angeles City Charter.
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