Erwin Chemerinsky
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"Erwin Chemerinsky" is an Law of the United States/American lawyer and law professor. He is a prominent scholar in United States constitutional law and federal civil procedure. He is the current and founding Dean (education)/dean of the University of California, Irvine School of Law, which began classes in the fall semester of 2009.

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He's had this tremendous impact in changing the Supreme Court. In almost every area of constitutional law, he's left a mark, and the court's functioning very differently than it used to, and I think he's responsible for that.

I really think that he's somebody who will be regarded in hindsight as having had a tremendous influence on the course of constitutional law.

On one hand it's a way to raise reasonable doubt, arguing other people had motive to kill her. On the other hand, there is a dead woman and the real danger is that the jury may sympathize with the victim and turn around on the defendant and defense counsel.

I think the most difficult task for Simpson is to come up with a clear, consistent, believable story for where he was between 9:45 and eleven on the night of the murders.

The Constitution says that it is the electoral college that determines who is the president. It leaves no doubt.

But the time factor would make that kind of ruling a victory for [Texas Gov. George W.] Bush.

It's a year when it is going to be particularly difficult to make predictions.

You don't know who the new justice will be - or whether that justice will be there - and you have more uncertainly about John Roberts than you had with William Rehnquist.

This is a docket that already has an extraordinary number of potential blockbuster cases. It will give us an early sense of who John Roberts is.