Professor Verna Williams, with Erwin Chemerinsky and Edward Fallone, participated in a press call panel on February 24, 2016; the panel of constitutional scholars and legal experts urged the Senate and their own senators to give a fair hearing and a timely vote to the then forthcoming Supreme Court nomination. Professor Williams was quoted in The Hill on this topic. The article quoting her can be found at http://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/270594-senate-gop-exceeding-constitutional-power-on-scotus-nominee-experts.
Professor Williams participated in a Black Feminist panel discussion on Black Lives Matter and advocacy around the unique experiences of African American Women hosted by the UC Women’s Center on April 6, 2016.
Professor Verna Williams’s article, Guns, Race, and Sex: The Second Amendment through a Feminist Lens, was accepted for publication in the Tennessee Law Review.
Professor Verna Williams presented the keynote address on Diversity in the Legal Profession at the Northern Kentucky NAACP’s Annual Lawyers Luncheon.
Professor Verna Williams attended UCLA Law School’s “Is Separation the Solution: A Convening to Discuss the Theory and Practice of Gender-Based School Reforms for At-Risk Students of Color,” where she also participated in a roundtable discussion, “Intersectionality and Educational Inequality: Single-Sex Education.”