The lawsuit again Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law alleging anti-white discrimination in faculty hiring has been dismissed. Karen Sloan from Reuters has the details:
Northwestern University’s law school has persuaded a federal judge in Chicago to reject claims by a conservative group that the school discriminates against white men in faculty hiring.
U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis on Wednesday agreed to dismiss the lawsuit brought by a nonprofit organization called Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences (FASORP). The group is represented by prominent conservative attorney Jonathan Mitchell and by America First Legal, which was co-founded by Donald Trump adviser Stephen Miller.
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The decision is the latest in a series of court setbacks for conservative legal groups targeting law schools, including unsuccessful discrimination cases against the Harvard Law Review in 2018 and the NYU Law Review in 2023. FASORP also sued the Michigan Law Review for discrimination in June but voluntarily dismissed the case in October.
Karen Sloan, Northwestern Law School Defeats Lawsuit Alleging Anti-White Faculty Hiring, January 22, 2026; see also Lawsuit Against Northwestern Law Alleging Anti-white Discrimination Dismissed, ABA Journal, January 26, 2026.
