The New Jane Crow: Life in The Post Dobbs Reality
Three leading scholars/activists/attorneys and thought-leaders take stock of the current assault on social progress, women’s freedoms, racial and environmental justice, human rights, and democracy. Are we headed into a plunge towards a “Handmaid’s Tale”-like dystopian future, or is this the desperate last gasp of the patriarchy? They will share their analyses of the contours of this exceedingly challenging historical moment and their strategies to most effectively resist the toxic impulses threatening the very survival of our body politic. We can outlast this dark period of regression and emerge stronger to continue the multi-generational struggles for a far more gender-just society, one in which women finally achieve genuine, full equality, but we will need to mobilize all our skill and will and work together. With: Michele Goodwin, renowned constitutional legal scholar, bioethicist and author; Radhika Rao, Professor of Law and Harry & Lillian Hastings Research Chair, UC College of the Law, San Francisco; Ji Seon Song, Assistant Professor of Law, UC Irvine School of Law.
Crystal Ballroom, Hotel Shattuck Plaza
March 26th | 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm
Panelists
Michele Bratcher Goodwin
Professor of Constitutional Law and Global Health Policy
Georgetown University
Michele Bratcher Goodwin, an acclaimed bioethicist, constitutional law scholar, and prolific author, is credited with helping to establish and shape the field of health law. Currently the Linda D. & Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Constitutional Law and Global Health Policy and the Co-Faculty Director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown, Goodwin’s previous positions include: Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Irvine and founding Director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy as well as teaching at Harvard’s Law and Medical schools. Dr. Goodwin, who directed the first ABA accredited health law program in the nation and established the first law center focused on race and bioethics, has won slews of prestigious awards for her scholarship, and her writing has appeared in many of the country’s leading academic law reviews. She is the author/editor of six books, including: Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood.
Radhika Rao
Professor of Law and Harry & Lillian Hastings Research Chair
UC College of the Law
Radhika Rao, Professor of Law and Harry & Lillian Hastings Research Chair at UC Law San Francisco, clerked for Justices Harry Blackmun and Thurgood Marshall at the Supreme Court after graduating from Harvard Law School, and has gone on to become a widely published, major legal scholar and thought leader in a number of domains, including constitutional law, abortion, assisted reproduction, and property rights in the human body. She has been a Fulbright Distinguished Professor at the University of Trento in Italy and served on the California Advisory Committee on Human Cloning, and she currently serves on the California Human Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee.
Ji Seon Song
