Northwestern University’s law school deliberately avoided hiring highly qualified white male legal scholars in an effort to develop a more diverse faculty makeup in violation of federal anti-discrimination laws, alleges a lawsuit recently filed by a prominent conservative legal group.
America First Legal Foundation filed the 32-page complaint July 2, alleging faculty hiring at U.S. universities “is a cesspool of corruption and lawlessness,” and arguing Northwestern is a prime example.
It alleges that for the last 12 years, the leadership of Northwestern law “has propagated and enforced a mandate to hire as many non-white and non-male faculty candidates as possible.”