May 12, 2022

Event Description
The leak of a draft opinion for Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization has shocked the country. The leak is an unprecedented violation of Supreme Court procedure. More importantly, should the finalized opinion hew closely to the leaked draft the right to abortion will lose its current constitutional protection. We hosted a townhall chat with Petrie-Flom Center Faculty Director, James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law and Deputy Dean I. Glenn Cohen and legal historian and Daniel P.S. Paul Visiting Professor of Constitutional Law Mary Ziegler as we explore the leaked Dobbs opinion and its implications if it becomes law. Audience questions, especially from law students and other graduate students at Harvard, were strongly encouraged.

Panelists
Introduction and moderator: Carmel Shachar, Executive Director, The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School
I. Glenn Cohen, Petrie-Flom Center Faculty Director, James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law, and Deputy Dean, Harvard Law School
Mary Ziegler, Stearns Weaver Miller Professor, Florida State University College of Law

This event is sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.

For more information, visit petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/roe-in-limbo

• Roe in Limbo: A Townhall on the Leaked Dobbs Opinion ( Download)
• The Leaked Opinion Explained: Dobbs v. Jackson ( Download)
• Supreme Court Leak: Is Roe Over ( Download)
• Legal Review: Dobbs and the Holdings of Roe and Casey ( Download)
• Understanding The Dobbs Case and the Leaked Alito Brief ( Download)
• Flash Panel: Understanding Dobbs: Imagining a Post-Roe World ( Download)
• The Supreme Court and Dobbs: The Leak, The Law, The Future for Protecting Life ( Download)
• The problem with Roe v. Wade (and what happens next) ( Download)
• Supreme Court overrules Roe v. Wade in Dobbs decision! ( Download)
• Elizabeth Kirk: The Law of Abortion in the United States: Roe, Casey and Dobbs ( Download)
• Americans’ Knowledge and Attitudes About Abortion Access and the Pending Supreme Court Ruling ( Download)
• Constitutional law expert explains why Roe v. Wade decision stood for 50 years ( Download)
• Justice Alito's Leaked Opinion: the Future of Roe and the Damage to the High Court ( Download)
• Roe v Wade Currently Awaiting Dobbs v Jackson ( Download)
• The Leak, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Abortion in America ( Download)