LAW 5887: US Reproductive Rights Seminar - 2171

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.