A University of Melbourne 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.

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.

Descheemaeker then sued the university for discrimination, alleging the attempt to expel him in July was because of his political opinion.