Professor who claimed ‘Blak’ activists were leading law school to ‘destruction’ to leave University of Melbourne

<p><strong>Exclusive: </strong>Dr Eric Descheemaeker and university have agreed he will leave his job to pursue other opportunities, email to staff says</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/jan/30/national-cabinet-meeting-ndis-health-funding-gun-buyback-scheme-anthony-albanese-mark-butler-labor-coalition-sussan-ley-ntwnfb">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates</a></p></li><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p>A University of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/melbourne">Melbourne</a> law professor who wrote an email saying the institution was dictated to by “‘Blak’ activists” who were leading it to “destruction” will leave the university.</p><p>The university tried to sack Dr Eric Descheemaeker after the 2023 email to the then dean of Melbourne law school (MLS), in which he claimed it was turning into an “ideological re-education camp”, was leaked and posted around the Parkville campus last year.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/30/melbourne-professor-eric-descheemaeker-blak-activists-law-school-leaving-ntwnfb">Continue reading...</a>

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