The Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law and Policy is publishing a special issue for Spring 2024 focused on challenges for professors teaching reproductive rights after Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.
How are you teaching reproductive rights to students in the aftermath of Dobbs? There are so many implications, uncertainties, and shifting battlelines following the Supreme Court’s ruling, including federalism, substantive due process, religious freedom, the right to travel, and full faith and credit. Additionally, is it best to teach Dobbs in the context of other major precedent-busting SCOTUS opinions, the jurisdictional questions that will arise among states, or the political backdrop of polarization? How best to teach students about serving clients and communities in the face of so much legal uncertainty?
These are some of the questions with which health law, constitutional law and other faculty are grappling as they teach or prepare to teach Dobbs and its implications to students. And they are just some of the pedagogical issues that this special issue of the Journal of Health Law and Policy will address.
Submissions may focus on any pedagogical issues associated with teaching reproductive rights to students following the Dobbs ruling. We invite submissions from faculty who teach constitutional law, federal courts, health law, bioethics, or any other substantive course in which Dobbs or reproductive rights are taught.
The Journal is interdisciplinary, and we welcome single- and co-authored submissions from health law and policy, bioethics, critical legal theories, public health, ethics and other disciplines. Submissions can be empirical, descriptive, or analytical, as long as they relate to or shed light on the broad questions raised in this special issue. Length of submissions may vary. Legal pieces may range from 5,000-8,500 words (12-20 journal pages) for shorter pieces to 10,000-20,000 words (25-45 journal pages). We also welcome interdisciplinary pieces of varying lengths.
Abstracts of 250 words or less are due by March 15, 2023. Completed papers are due Dec. 1, 2023.
Please contact Robert Gatter at robert.gatter@slu.edu if you have any questions.
