Law Practice
Aug. 29, 2009
First Student at UCI Law School is a Local who Taught High School English
Acrivi Coromelas had to quickly return to teaching Afghan history at Gabrielino High School in Orange County after receiving Dean Erwin Chemerinsky's call letting her know she was accepted to law school.




Daily Journal Staff Writer IRVINE - At 2:40 in the afternoon on Feb. 10, 2009, the telephone rang in Acrivi Coromelas's classroom at Gabrielino High School in San Gabriel. It was Dean Erwin Chemerinsky making one of 110 calls he would make to students offered admission to the inaugural class of the UCI School of Law. Congratulations, Chemerinsky told Coromelas, I hope you decide to attend, can I answer any questions? ...
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