Roe V. Dobbs

As the debate over the right to obtain an abortion in the United States rages on, 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the landmark decision in Roe v. Wade--overturned, of course, by the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health in 2022. This book brings together some of the nation's leading experts in constitutional law, history, gender studies, and reproductive rights to examine the decisions in Dobbs and Roe, the Court's performance, and how this sets the stage for the decisions to come, not only on abortion. This is a critical moment in which to reflect on the past, present, and future of abortion regulations and legislation in the U.S.

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 and 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 and 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 and 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