Vanita “Saleema” Snow is a Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. She previously served as Director of UDC Law’s Youth Justice Clinic and Director of UDC Law’s Legal Writing Program. Through a critical race theory lens, her research focuses on youth justice, gender equity, and the intersection of poverty, gender, and access to justice. Her students have recognized her teaching in numerous ways including awarding her a Student Bar Association’s Outstanding Law Professor Award.

Professor Snow has spoken at numerous panels, conferences and symposiums, including Yale School of Law, Harvard’s Critical Race Theory Conference, and the American Bar Association Section on Civil Rights and Social Justice. Professor Snow’s scholarship has appeared in various law journals, including Berkely Journal of Gender, Law & Justice; Drexel Law Review; Pace Law Review; and the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law (forthcoming). Her article, Reframing Radical Religion, which appeared in the Georgetown Journal of Law and Modern Critical Race Perspectives, argues that stigmatizing Muslims as terrorists emboldens xenophobia, racism, and hate crimes. Equally significant, the stereotype garners widespread public support and judicial protections for discriminatory policies that adversely and disproportionately affect Muslims. Framing theory remains an important aspect of her scholarship in other substantive areas of law.