Erwin Chemerinsky’s goal is for the new UCI law school to rank in the Top 20. Thanks to the dean himself, it’s already No. 10 on one list. A national report by scholar-blogger Brian Leiter ranks UCI’s law school 10th in “scholarly impact.” That puts UCI-six months from admitting its first class-ahead of such standouts as Cornell, Georgetown and UCLA. (Yale, Chicago and Harvard grab the top three spots.) The rankings are based on the number of legal citations per tenured prof in the past four years; UCI’s average is greatly bolstered by the output of Chemerinsky, “the most cited full-time law professor in the country” …
Chapman U’s Argyros School also has grabbed an aca-demic kudo, for the first time making BusinessWeek’s list of the Top 50 Undergraduate Business Schools in the U.S., at No. 46 …
Recession and Rossignol have caused rough sledding for Huntington Beach-based surfwear maker Quiksilver, but CEO Bob McKnight’s surfer-exec image is staying afloat. He is caricatured as surfing ahead of an economic tsunami in a clever Microsoft commercial that has aired repeatedly on Fox, ABC, NBC, ESPN and CNBC. McKnight says Microsoft is planning a second commercial with him, too. And you can still catch the real McKnight surfing confidently in a Pacific Life spot that began airing in the calmer waters of 2007 …
Speaking of CNBC, during last Monday’s market meltdown it interviewed two prescient OCers-stock market bear and UCI Biz Prof Peter Navarro and mortgage broker/housing-bubble Cassandra Glenn Stearns …
Glenn’s more talented half, Mindy Stearns, sings “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” at the OC High School of the Arts “Jubile de Paris” Saturday at the Hyatt Regency Ir-vine. E-mail lori.kij@ocsarts.net …
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox addresses UCI’s Center for the Study of Democracy April 8 at the Irvine Barclay Theatre (www.thebarclay.org) …
Meg Whitman, the Business Journal’s Women in Business keynote on May 21 who was just endorsed for guv by former OC state Sen. Dick Ackerman, returns to OC this week, this time calling on the Lincoln Club board. The Insider notes that Whitman’s April 20 appearance at the Anaheim Marriott is co-sponsored by the Harvard Business School Association of OC …
Obscure agency no longer? Supe John Moorlach has joined the OC Vector Control District’s 35-member board. Stay tuned …
It’s the 100th anniversary of Huntington Beach, the American Lung Association in OC and the mansion that is now Bruno Serato’s Anaheim White House Restaurant …
Pacific Symphony is concluding its 30th anniversary season and getting ready to launch another anniversary season in September-conductor Carl St. Clair’s 20th …
Following on their Christmas album, the chanting Norbertine Fathers of St. Michael’s Abbey have released a second CD, “Anthology.” Royalties go toward an envisioned relocation of the 70-member community from Silverado to a more spacious, remote and geologically stable site off of Ortega Highway.
