Roe v. Dobbs

The Past, Present, and Future of a Constitutional Right to Abortion

Lee C. Bollinger, Geoffrey Stone (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

504 Seiten

2024
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-776036-9 (ISBN)

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With this volume, Roe v. Dobbs: The Past, Present and Future of a Constitutional Right of Abortion, we confront the remarkable beginning and end--once again, after a half-century-of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, shockingly overruled by the Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. The goal of this book is to bring together some of our nation's leading constitutional scholars, historians, philosophers, and medical experts to share their views on whether there should be a constitutional right to abortion and what the consequences of Dobbs might be.

What makes this subject unique is how it intersects with our own lives, since both Bollinger and Stone were law clerks at the Supreme Court in the year that Roe was decided (1973)--Stone for Justice William Brennan and Bollinger for Chief Justice Warren Burger. During the Court's 1972 Term, when Roe was decided, the Court was in a state of flux. President Nixon had just appointed four Justices to the Court--Burger, Blackmun, Powell, and Rehnquist. The era of the Warren Court was clearly over. In those days, the Justices were non-partisan, often joined opinions across the political/ideological spectrum, and approached cases with an open mind. That in large part explains why the Court could reach the decision it did in Roe, with five of the six Republican-appointed Justices and two of the three Democratic-appointed Justices in the majority, and one Republican-appointed justice (Rehnquist) and one Democratic-appointed justice (White) in dissent. It was a different Court and a different era.

Lee C. Bollinger served as Columbia University's 19th president from 2002 to 2023. He is Seth Low Professor of the University, a member of the Columbia Law School faculty, and one of the nation's foremost First Amendment scholars. Geoffrey R. Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. Mr. Stone joined the faculty in 1973, after serving as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. He is a preeminent constitutional law scholar.

Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Dialogue
Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone

Part One The Supreme Court: Roe v. Dobbs
1. Liberal Critics of Roe
David A. Strauss
2. Equality Emerges as a Ground for Abortion Rights in and After Dobbs
Cary Franklin & Reva Siegel

Part Two Close Readings of Roe
3. Why Was Roe v. Wade Wrong?
Jonathan Mitchell
4. Justice Blackmun Got it Right in Roe v. Wade
Erwin Chemerinsky

Part Three The Path from Roe to Dobbs
5. Abortion, Partisan Entrenchment, and the Republican Party
Jack M. Balkin
6. Some Realism About Precedent, In the Wake of Dobbs
Michael W. McConnell

Part Four Close Readings of Dobbs
7. The Dobbs Gambit: Gaslighting at the Highest Level
Khiara M. Bridges
8. Dobbs and the Travails of Due Process Traditionalism
Cass R. Sunstein
9. Should Gradualism Have Prevailed in Dobbs?
Richard M. Re
10. Dobbs' Democratic Deficits
Melissa Murray & Katherine Shaw

Part Five Historical Perspectives
11. The Failure of Dobbs: The Entanglement of Abortion Bans, Criminalized Pregnancies, and Forced Family Separation
Dorothy Roberts
12. A Requiem For Roe: When Property Has No Privacy
Michele Bratcher Goodwin
13. Where History Fails
Nancy F. Cott
14. How Contraception and Abortion Got Divorced
Linda Gordon
15. The Antiabortion Movement and the Punishment Prerogative
Mary Ziegler

Part Six International Perspectives
16. Abortion Policy Aimed at Promoting Life As Much As Possible
Mark Tushnet
17. American Exceptionalism and the Comparative Constitutional Law of Abortion
Tom Ginsburg

Part Seven Implications for the Future
18. Reproductive Technologies and Embryo Destruction After Dobbs
Glenn Cohen
19. Dobbs and Our Privacies
Aziz Z. Huq & Rebecca Wexler
20. The Unraveling: What Dobbs May Mean for Contraception, Liberty, and Constitutionalism
Martha Minow

Closing Dialogue
Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone

Erscheinungsdatum	14.02.2024
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	165 x 196 mm
Gewicht	680 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-776036-8 / 0197760368
ISBN-13	978-0-19-776036-9 / 9780197760369
Zustand	Neuware