Law Schools
Lawsuit against Northwestern Law alleging anti-white discrimination dismissed
The Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. Photo from Shutterstock.
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit alleging Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law discriminates against white men in faculty hiring, Reuters reports.
The suit was brought by a nonprofit organization called Faculty, Alumni and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences, represented by prominent conservative attorney Jonathan Mitchell and by America First Legal, co-founded by Donald Trump adviser Stephen Miller, the story states.
Filed in July 2024, the suit alleged the law school did not consider hiring white male faculty candidates with “stellar credentials” and instead hired “mediocre” candidates from diverse racial and gender backgrounds, according to Reuters.
The decision by U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis to dismiss the suit last week follows other unsuccessful moves by conservative legal groups targeting law schools, including discrimination cases against the Harvard Law Review in 2018 and the NYU Law Review in 2023, the story says. In addition, Faculty, Alumni and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences voluntarily dismissed a suit against the Michigan Law Review for discrimination in October.
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