Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization: Roe on the Line

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Join us for a panel discussion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the upcoming Supreme Court case determining if Mississippi’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks is constitutional. The panel will include Attorney Hillary Schneller, co-lead counsel representing Jackson Women’s Health Organization; Dean Kim Mutcherson of Rutgers, Professor of Law award-winning reproductive justice scholar; and Yale’s very own Professor Reva Siegel, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Linda Greenhouse, Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, will moderate the discussion.

There will be a viewing in Sterling Law Building Room 122. Only Yale community members are permitted to join in person. All are welcome to join via Zoom! Register to receive the Zoom details.

• Moderator: Linda Greenhouse is a senior research scholar and lecturer in law at Yale Law School. For thirty years she was The New York Times Supreme Court correspondent and earned a number of major journalism awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, for her coverage of the Court. She has written widely about the law and politics of abortion. 
• Hillary Schneller joined the Center for Reproductive Rights in 2014 as a litigation fellow and is now a senior staff attorney. She is co-lead counsel in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which the Supreme Court will hear this term. 
• Kimberly Mutcherson is an award-winning professor whose scholarship focuses on reproductive justice, bioethics, and family and health law. She has presented her scholarship nationally and internationally and publishes extensively on assisted reproduction, families, and the law.
• Reva Siegel is the Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Professor Siegel’s 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.

This event is co-sponsored by the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy, the Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice, and the Yale Health Law and Policy Society (YHeLPS)

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy

Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice

Yale Health Law and Policy Society (YHeLPS)