Description of Event:
The US Supreme Court decision in Dobbs overturning Roe is the fruit of conflict in American abortion law and politics that has been brewing since the Reagan administration and the rise of originalism in the 1980s. Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of Roe, conflict over abortion in America continues, in both old and strikingly new forms.
Speaker:
Professor Siegel is the Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Her writing draws on legal history to explore questions of law and inequality and to analyze how courts interact with representative government and popular movements in interpreting the Constitution. Recent publications include: “Memory Games: Dobbs’ Originalism as Anti-Democratic Living Constitutionalism - and Some Pathways for Resistance,” 101 Texas L. Rev. (forthcoming 2023); “Equal Protection in Dobbs and Beyond: How States Protect Life Inside and Outside of the Abortion Context,” 43 Colum. J. of Gender & the Law (forthcoming 2023) (with Serena Mayeri & Melissa Murray).
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