• Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor Sandra Sperino gave a talk titled “First Generation Discrimination” at the conference, The Present and Future of Civil Rights Movements: Race and Reform in 21st Century America. The conference was hosted by Duke Law School’s Center on Law, Race and Politics on November 20-21, 2015.
• Professor Sperino presented at the Louisiana Judicial College on December 11, 2015. The Louisiana Judicial College provides quality and relevant continuing legal education for Louisiana’s judges. Professor Sperino spoke about the growing role of tort law in discrimination cases and what this means for state law.
• Professor Sperino’s article, Let’s Pretend Discrimination is a Tort, has been identified by Anthony Sebok as one of the best works of recent scholarship relating to Torts, in a review published December 17, 2015 in Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots). The review can be found here: http://torts.jotwell.com.
• Professor Sperino was invited to speak at the Warns-Render Labor and Employment Law Institute annual conference in the summer of 2016.

Additionally, Professor Sperino’s work was cited in the following:

• Professor Sperino’s Statutory Proximate Cause, 88 Notre L. Rev. 1199, 1201-05 (2013), in Virginia E. Scholtes, The Lexmark Test for False Advertising Standing: When Two Prongs Don’t Make a Right, 30 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 1023 (Annual Review 2015).
• Professor Sperino’s Rethinking Discrimination Law, 110 Mich. L. Rev. 69, 94 (2011), in William R. Corbett, Young v. United Parcel Service, Inc.: McDonnell Douglas to the Rescue?, 92 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1683 (2015).