US Reproductive Rights Seminar

Course Catalog Number:
5887
Course Credits:
3
Course Type:
Seminar
Course Priority:
Seminar - 3rd Year Priority
Graduation Requirements:
Upper-Level Writing
"W" Writing
Full Year Course:
No

Course Description

This seminar will involve a ‘litigation history’ consideration of the U.S. Supreme Court’s post-1960 constitutional decisions that opened a new era of federal ‘substantive due process’ liberty protection for reproductive rights. It will also more briefly survey the doctrinally-related rulings addressing gay rights/ gay equality and ‘assisted suicide’ that have emerged in the post-Roe (and post-Casey) eras. The final week (or two) will address and analyze post-Gonzales v. Carhart (2007) developments in the lower federal and state courts.