That's despite the fact the board includes Prof. Stephen West, the fat-cat vice-chancellor of Bristol UWE, who was paid £315,269 last year, and Prof Carl Lygo, the founding vice-chancellor of Britain's first for-profit university, who earned a whopping £738,000 in one year.
And that afternoon, the Irvine chancellor offered Professor Chemerinsky the job of founding dean at the new law school.
Bengtsson was briefly a board member of the climate sceptic organisation the Global Warming Policy Foundation, founded by former UK chancellor of the exchequer Nigel Lawson, but he resigned on Wednesday citing pressure from other academics.
In 2004, three years before his death, Falwell completed another dream by founding the Liberty University School of Law, whose objective, in the words of the university's current chancellor, Jerry Falwell Jr., is "to transform legislatures, courts, commerce and civil government at all levels".
The Chancellor dencounced the Republican presidential candidate's controversial remarks as going against the "founding principle of the United States" and said his "nonsense" views must be rejected by making it "very clear that his views are not welcome".
While other EU leaders, including German chancellor, Angela Merkel, are keen to help Cameron devise a new deal that he can sell back home, Berlin insists she will not want to tamper with EU founding principles.
In 1906, Chamberlain was a founding member of the University House Committee at Birmingham University, the president of which was his aunt, Mrs Charles Beale, wife of the University's first Vice-Chancellor.
The crossbench peer, who co-founded Lastminute.com and is chancellor of the Open University, will make the call in this year's Richard Dimbleby lecture to be broadcast on BBC1 next Monday.
