| The New Wave of Abortion Restrictions |
B. Jessie Hill, J.D. - Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law |
Friday September 18, 2015
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Dampeer Room
Kelvin Smith Library
Case Western Reserve University
Dear Colleagues:
In 2011, Professor Hill wrote, "more anti-abortion legislation was passed than in any year since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973." This wave has included legislation defined as meeting the legitimate interest, as articulated by the Supreme Court in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, in "regulations to further the health or safety of a woman seeking an abortion…" but in practice designed to shut them down. After a Court of Appeals decision left the Texas law in place, threatening to eliminate the vast majority of clinics in the state, the Supreme Court on June 30 stayed the decision pending its own possible review of the case. Two dozen states, including Ohio, have similar laws.
Other laws attempt to delay decisions (and so ultimately take the pregnancy past the deadlines in Roe v. Wade), or shape how women view the choice (for instance, requiring an ultrasound test). What are the effects, and what are the prospects for litigation? Professor Hill is a leading scholar of this issue, frequently quoted in national media and currently counsel in two cases challenging abortion restrictions in Ohio.
All best regards,
Joe White
Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy and Director, Center for Policy Studies
About Our Guests
Jessie Hill joined the faculty in 2003 after practicing First Amendment and civil rights law with the firm of Berkman, Gordon, Murray & DeVan in Cleveland. Before entering private practice, Hill worked at the Reproductive Freedom Project of the national ACLU office in New York, litigating challenges to state-law restrictions on reproductive rights. She also served as law clerk to the Honorable Karen Nelson Moore of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Hill's teaching focuses on constitutional law, federal civil procedure, civil rights, reproductive rights, and law and religion. Her scholarship has been published in the Michigan Law Review and the Texas Law Review, among others.
Where We Meet
The Friday Public Affairs Lunch convenes each Friday when classes are in session, from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. We usually meet in the Dampeer Room of Kelvin Smith Library. The Dampeer Room is on the second floor of the library. If you get off the elevators, turn right, pass the first bank of tables, and turn right again. Occasionally we need to use a different room; that will always be announced in the weekly e-mails.
Parking Possibilities
The most convenient parking is the lot underneath Severance Hall. We regret that it is not free. For a few weeks construction on East Boulevard will block northbound traffic to the Severance garage. So if you are coming from Euclid Ave, please turn north at Ford Drive, then left at Bellflower and left from Bellflower onto East Boulevard, heading south.
From the Severance lot there is an elevator up to street level (labeled as for the Thwing Center); it is less than 50 yards from that exit to the library entrance. You can also get from the Severance garage to the library without going outside. Near the entry gates - just to the right if you were driving out - there is a door into a corridor. Walk down the corridor and there will be another door. Beyond that door you'll find the entrance to an elevator which goes up to an entrance right inside the doors to Kelvin Smith Library.
Friday Lunch Upcoming Topics and Speakers:
September 25: What's Happening in Lake Erie? With Gerald Matisoff, Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences.
October 2: Moving Towards Health Care Justice: Navigating the ACA and Beyond. With Rachel Rosen DeGolia, Director, Universal Health Care Action Network and Health Benefits Exchange navigator.
October 9: China’s Aging Population: Policy Decisions and Program Challenges. With M.C. “Terry” Hokenstad, Distinguished University Professor and Ralph S. and Dorothy P. Schmitt Professor, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences. ***Alternate Location: Mather House Room 100***
October 16: The Issues About Issue 3, The Ohio Marijuana Legalization Initiative. With Mark Naymik, Columnist, The Plain Dealer.
October 23: Energy, Climate, and the Historian's View of the Future. With Peter A. Shulman, Associate Professor of History.
October 30: From "9 to 5" to What? New Work Patterns and Their Implications. With Jenny Rae Hawkins, Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics.
November 6: A Year Away from the 2016 Election…. With Paul Herrnson, Professor of Political Science, University of Connecticut.
November 13: Why Virtual Schools are Growing So Fast, and What it Might Mean for the Future of Public Education. With Peter Robertson, Senior Vice President of School Operations, Connections Education.
November 20: Integrating the Inner City Through Mixed-Income Development. With Mark Joseph, Associate Professor at MSASS and Director, National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities; Taryn Gross, Project Coordinator for the Initiative, and Emily Miller, Project Associate for the Initiative. Co-sponsored with the Schubert Center for Child Studies. ***Alternate Location: Mandel Community Studies Center Room 115, 11402 Bellflower Road***
November 27: Thanksgiving Break
December 4: Making Clean Energy Work. With Walter Money, Whole House Energy Solutions.
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Upcoming Events
Sexual Misconduct on College Campuses: Justice and Due Process
A discussion with Cynthia Grant Bowman, Ph.D., J.D., Dorothea S. Clarke Professor of Law,
Cornell University Law School and Howard Kallem, J.D., Director of Title IX Compliance,
Duke University.
Wednesday September 16, 2015, 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m., Moot Courtroom, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, 11075 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44106-1769. Sponsored by the Office of the President, Office of Government and Community Relations, Department of Political Science, Center for Policy Studies, and School of Law. A reception will follow at The Law School.
Our annual Constitution Day program addresses one of the most controversial issues on university campuses. In response to many reports that universities did little to help victims of sexual assault on campus and to sanction perpetrators, the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights in 2011 established new standards for how universities should respond to complaints. The Department has made making college campuses safer through this effort a major priority. As of August of this year, the OCR had 129 outstanding investigations, having already settled others. But the effort has been challenged by faculty who say universities' new policies manifestly abuse standards of due process. The critics have included some of the best-known legal scholars of women's issues in the country.
Join us as a prominent participant in the enforcement effort and a prominent critic discuss the issues, responding to questions from a panel of CWRU students.
The Revenge of the Nerds, and Other Dispatches from the Intellectual Property Wars
A Global Currents Lecture Discussion with Susan K. Sell, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, The George Washington University.
Monday October 5, 2015, 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m., Case Western Reserve University, Tinkham Veale University Center, Senior Classroom A, 11038 Bellflower Road, Cleveland, OH. This program is made possible by the generosity of Ms. Eloise Briskin and sponsored by the Center for Policy Studies.
In the 1980s the United States government made negotiation and enforcement of strong “intellectual property” rights one of the guiding principles of its foreign policy. It was backed by major corporations and in many cases governments from developed nations. One stage was the 1994 Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), but TRIPS, as Susan Sell argues, in retrospect was only a step in a much more extensive series of restrictions that have been achieved in a series of forums since.
Yet this campaign has met major setbacks. In 2001 the WTO Doha Declaration underscored countries’ rights to put public health before patents. In 2012, legislation to restrict downloading, streaming, and file-sharing on the internet was breezing through Congress, until it was suddenly swamped by a tidal wave of net-based protest.
The newest battle in the now nearly Thirty-Years War about intellectual property involves the Trans-Pacific Partnership. What might we learn from the past about what could happen next? To help us understand the battle and the war, we will be joined by Professor Susan Sell, one of the leading scholars of the conflict.
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