UC Law’s Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice, co-directed by Verna and Profs. Emily Houh and Kristin Kalsem, threw a major conference, Social Justice Feminism, at UC Law on October 25-27.

Several of Verna’s publications were cited:

• The First (Black) Lady, 86 Denv. U. L. Rev. 833 (2009), in Rona Kaufman Kitchen, Off-Balance: Obama and the Work-Family Agenda, 16 Employee Rts. & Emp. Pol’y J. 211 (2012);
• The Heart of the Game: Putting Race and Gender Equity at the Center of Title IX, 7 Va. Sports & Ent. L.J. 199 (2008), in Alfred Dennis Mathewson, Remediating Discrimination Against African American Female Athletes at the Intersection of Title IX And Title VI, 2 Wake Forest J.L. & Pol’y 295 (2012); and in Jacquelyn L. Bridgeman, The End Game: Envisioning Equality for Women and Girls in Sports, 2 Wake Forest J.L. & Pol’y 267 (2012); and
• Social Justice Feminism, 18 UCLA Women’s L.J. 131 (2010) (with Kristin Kalsem), in Mara Shulman Ryan, Student Author, Criminal Law—Invisible in the Courtroom Too: Modifying the Law of Selective Enforcement to Account for White Privilege, 34 W. New Eng. L. Rev. 301 (2012).