A Published Roundtable on Griswold v. Connecticut

We learn, via Barbara Sicherman, Trinity College , that “a roundtable on Griswold v. Connecticut , originally presented at the American Ass...

Brophy and Troutman on Eugenics in North Carolina

Alfred L. Brophy, University of North Carolina School of Law, and Elizabeth Lea Troutman , an alumna of North Carlina Law, have posted The ...

Thank You, Mary Ziegler!

Thank you, Mary Ziegler, for a series of posts as a guest blogger this month relating to her book After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortio...

Writing Abortion History

As I end my time on Legal History Blog, there is another issue worth discussing: the challenges of writing the history of an issue as divisi...

Compromise and Marital-Status Discrimination

At the heart of After Roe  is a story about when and why conflict about abortion and gender escalated. Before writing the book, I believed t...

The Politicization of Privacy

Like many of my students, I found myself confused the first time I read the Roe decision. I had always believed that the Court had recognize...

Liberals and Religious Conscience

With the courts still grappling with challenges to the contraceptive mandate of the Affordable Care Act, conscience-based objections will li...

Population Control, Immigration, and Environmentalism

Population controllers are some of the most fascinating characters to appear in After Roe . Some of these activists, like former Columbia st...

Weekend Roundup

Guest blogger Sarah Barringer Gordon 's new research on church and state in early America has the enthusiastic endorsement of the Econom...

The Rise of the Undue-Burden Test

Pro-Life Activists, March for Life, 2015 (Credit: American Life League ) One of the enduring mysteries in constitutional jurisprudence invol...

Representing the Unborn

James Bopp, June 2011 (Credit: Gage Skidmore ) If you are among the many who do not love the Supreme Court’s campaign-finance decision in Ci...

How Did Roe Become a Popular Symbol of Judicial Activism?

If you follow abortion politics today, you probably think that the pro-life movement has long prioritized Roe v. Wade . As attorney Clark Fo...

Unsolved Puzzles

I’m delighted to have the chance to share some thoughts this month on Legal History Blog. Thanks to Dan, Karen, and Tomiko for having me. Th...

Tani Reviews Edwards, "A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction"

JOTWELL has just posted my admiring review of A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights (Cambridge Universit...

Welcome, Mary Ziegler!

We’re very pleased to announce that Mary Ziegler , the Stearns Weaver Miller Professor at the Florida State University College of Law , will...

New Release: Ziegler's "After Roe"

Just out from the Harvard University Press is After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate , by Mary Ziegler , the Stearns Weaver Mill...

New Release: Field and Syrett, eds., "Age in America: The Colonial Era to the Present"

New from New York University Press: Age in America: The Colonial Era to the Present , edited b y Corinne T. Field (University of Virginia...