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Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
A Brain-Dead Woman Is Being Kept on Machines to Gestate a Fetus. It Was Inevitable.
Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old nurse and mother in Atlanta, has been brain-dead for over 90 days but remains on life support because she was nine weeks pregnant when declared legally…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Regulating Pregnant Women in the Post-Roe Era
By Tracy Thomas
Ederlina Co, Eclipsed: Pregnant Women in the Post-Roe Era In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey and authorized states to ban abortion and force pregnant…
PrawfsBlawg
How much did Dobbs drive SB8?
Main Monday, May 26, 2025How much did Dobbs drive SB8?Michael Dorf compares last week's decision effectively overruling Humphrey's Executor to the Court's decision refusing to stay enforcement of S.B. 8…
Legal Theory Blog
Siegel on Constitutional Memory
Reva Siegel (Yale University - Law School) has posted Foreword: Democratizing Constitutional Memory (Forthcoming 123 Mich. L. Rev. (2025)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The Court regularly makes claims…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Making Constitutional Memory Claims of Normative Arguments Utilizing a More Expansive Constitutional History
By Tracy Thomas
Reva Siegel, Foreword: Democratizing Constitutional Memory, 123 Mich. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025) The Court regularly makes claims on the past—claims that have grown in prominence since conservatives on the Roberts Court…
Legal Theory Blog
Upham on Section 5 Enforcement and Prenatal Persons
David R. Upham (St. Thomas University; University of Dallas) has posted Prenatal Personhood, State Duties, and Congress’s Abortion Power Under the Fourteenth Amendment (74 Cath. U. L. Rev. 427 (2025))…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Center for Con Law’s Symposium Issue on Women’s Leadership in Law and Politics
By Tracy Thomas
The Center for Constitutional at Akron has published its annual symposium issue. This year an interdisciplinary program featuring legal scholars and political scientists explored the question of women's leadership in…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The Elusive Promise of Equal Citizenship
By Tracy Thomas
Deborah L. Brake, Constitutional Rights and Retrenchment: The Elusive Promise of Equal Citizenship Although equality received no mention in the original Constitution—which brokered an unholy compromise to accommodate and preserve the…
Religion Clause
South Carolina Abortion Law Does Not Violate Free Exercise Rights
In Bingham v. Wilson, (D SC, May 7, 2025), a South Carolina federal district court refused to dismiss claims by five physicians that the health and fetal anomaly exceptions to…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Personhood and Assisted Reproduction
By Tracy Thomas
Myrisha S. Lewis, Personhood, Politics, Assisted Reproduction, and the Law Post-Dobbs With the end of the federal constitutional right to abortion, state legislatures and state courts have become far more important…