A woman enters the Northwestern University School of Law building in Chicago on Dec. 11, 2015. A conservative group filed a lawsuit against Northwestern University’s law school on Tuesday, claiming that its attempts to hire more women and people of color as faculty members violate federal law prohibiting discrimination against race and sex.
The lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago, says that the process of hiring professors at American universities has become “a cesspool of corruption and lawlessness.” It says Northwestern has deliberately sidelined white male candidates for faculty positions, giving preference to candidates of other races and gender identities.
“For decades, left-wing faculty and administrators have been thumbing their noses at federal anti-discrimination statutes and openly discriminating on account of race and sex when appointing professors,” the complaint says. “They do this by hiring women and racial minorities with mediocre and undistinguished records over white men who have better credentials, better scholarship and better teaching ability.
Members of the group are not named in the complaint, but the lead lawyer for the plaintiffs, Jonathan F. Mitchell, is a former Texas solicitor general turned activist litigator for conservative causes. He is joined by Gene P. Hamilton, general counsel of America First Legal Foundation, which bills itself as a conservative answer to the much deeper-pocketed ACLU.
The complaint’s sweeping approach suggests that the group wants to explicitly position itself as a successor to Students for Fair Admissions, the group that sued universities on behalf of Asian American students who said they had been discriminated against when applying to colleges.
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