[Ken H]

Here are some excerpts from an N&O article on Erwin Chemerinsky from July 23, 2006:

http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/463539.html

He is able to speak plainly about complicated law cases.

[snip]

Before moving to Durham in 2004, Chemerinsky spent 21 years in Los Angeles, where he led an effort to overhaul the city charter. He aided leaders as they fought police misconduct and possible government corruption.

[snip]

He's deeply committed to making the world a better place, leaving it better than he found it, and public law is a way to do that."

-- by Staff writer Anne Blythe

[CondorFlight]

"Erwin Chemerinsky"

I think this is the guy I once accused of being a "moral pygmy" because of his silence on the lacrosse case.

My apologies to the pygmies. . .