Students Seek Ouster of Penn Law Professor Over Race Uproar

A group of Penn Law students, alumni and other lawyers called on the university to strip Professor Amy Wax of her teaching duties following a report that she made racist remarks at a conference.

A petition led by the Latinx Law Students Association had collected more than 1,000 signatures calling on the school to take action.

“Many of us immigrated to this country or are the children of individuals who did,” the students wrote in the petition. “Regardless of when we came here, when our parents came here, or even when our grandparents came here, at some point in time, ...