"The organization's whole identity is centered on not being good enough and making it other people's problem. They go at length to perform their not-good-enoughness, not just in that they are comprised of faculty and students who weren't good enough to get their papers published or onto law review, but their law suit history is just a series of failures."
"A conservative legal group has ended a discrimination lawsuit against the University of Michigan's flagship law journal....FASORP voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit on Friday without explanation. The group's attorney, Jonathan Mitchell, did not immediately respond on Monday to a request for comment and more information, including on whether the case had settled. The law journal, which was due to respond to the suit by Monday, did not respond to a request for comment. The law school had no immediate comment."
"FASORP's "activism" ranged from advocating that law review applicants lie on their personal statements to get ahead at both UMichigan and Harvard, threatening schools to save all of their emails for a coming lawsuit or face the consequences, and the general promise to out anyone who was "female, non-white and non-Asian, or homosexual or transgender" as a "DEI hire" with "tainted credentials.""
FASORP is a conservative legal group that frames its identity around claims of not being good enough and targets academic law reviews and schools. The group includes faculty and students who failed to place work on law reviews and has a litigation record marked by dismissals and setbacks. FASORP sued Northwestern, pursued action against Harvard, and most recently filed and then voluntarily dismissed a discrimination suit against the University of Michigan's flagship law journal. Reported tactics include urging applicants to lie on personal statements, demanding preservation of institutional emails, and threatening to publicly label alleged DEI hires.
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