Linda C. McClain
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by Linda C. McClain — Reposted by: Aziza Ahmed
Keynote by @azizaahmed.bsky.social with commentary by Prof. Michele Goodwin and two panels of amazing speakers. Can attend in person or virtually: app.registrationguru.net#!/portal?eve...
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BU Program on Reproductive Justice thrilled to co-sponsor 10/3 symposium, "Risk and Resistance: Feminist Interventions in Health Law, Science, and Policy," celebrating new book by BURPJ co-dir. @azizaahmed.bsky.social w/ @universitypress.cambridge.org www.american.edu/wcl/impact/i...
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This beautiful tribute to Dick Fallon brought tears to my eyes. Thanks, @dorfonlaw.bsky.social, for capturing Dick's humility, brilliance, and so many scholarly virtues. Like so many of his students, my daughter feels inexpressibly grateful to have studied with him.
by Michael C. Dorf — Reposted by: Linda C. McClain, Mark A. Lemley
My co-author and friend Richard Fallon died on Sunday. On the blog, I remember some of what made him such an extraordinary scholar, teacher, and human being.
Remembering Richard Fallon
Richard H. Fallon Jr., the Story Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, died on Sunday. Dick was an exemplary scholar and teacher of consti...
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Here's a witty and apt post by @athenais.bsky.social on why a tradwife appeal to "the princess treatment" by her husband misunderstand princesses, their treatment, and their power! open.substack.com/pub/allisont...
The Princess Treatment
There has been a lot of internet talk this week about princesses, and not the Disney kind, all because a certain tradwife influencer discussed going out with her husband for dinner and being treated l...
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Important insights by historian Steven Hahn in this @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social episode about a long history of "illiberalism" in the US -- similar to pol scientist Rogers Smith on the different strands of the American tradition: Trumpism www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/o...
Opinion | The Very American Roots of Trumpism
The historian Steven Hahn puts Trumpism in the context of America’s long history of illiberalism.
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Looking forward to this BU Law panel today, with @mayamanian.bsky.social @matiangai.bsky.social and Jackie Dugard on Aziza Ahmed and my Routledge Companion to Gender and COVID-19. Can watch virtually! www.bu.edu/law/engageme...
A Panel Celebrating the Publication of “The Routledge Companion to Gender and COVID-19” | School of Law
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Very excited to announce that BU School of Law and BU Program on Reproductive Justice are seeking an Executive Director and Lecturer to help build the program and train the next generation of reproductive justice advocates. Please spread the word: jobs.silkroad.com/BU/Faculty/j...
Executive Director & Lecturer, BUPRJ, Boston University School of Law - BOSTON, Massachusetts - Boston University
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As @lsepper.bsky.social argues, there is a long history of arguing that abortion decisions are rooted in religious beliefs (like the challenge to the Hyde Amendment) but the dominant story has been that religious liberty is only at issue in opposition to abortion.
Here's my review for @jotwell.bsky.social of @lsepper.bsky.social on why religious liberty challenges to state abortion bans should succeed (but likely won't) before SCOTUS but may fare better in state courts, like Indiana. family.jotwell.com/reclaiming-a....
Reclaiming Abortion as a Moral—and Religious—Decision - Family Law
Elizabeth Sepper, Free Exercise of Abortion, 49 BYU L. Rev. 177 (2023).Linda C. McClainIn 1973, before the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade, two members of a group of clergy committed to helping wome...
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Proud of my friend Bill Treanor and proud to be Georgetown Law alum!
Here is my review of Prof. Elizabeth Sepper's informative argument about why religious liberty challenges to state abortion bans should succeed in SCOTUS, but likely won't, but may fare better in state courts.
Reposted by: Linda C. McClain
Jotwell Family Law latest:
Linda C. McClain, Reclaiming Abortion as a Moral—and Religious—Decision, JOTWELL (March 7, 2025) (reviewing Elizabeth Sepper, Free Exercise of Abortion, 49 BYU L. Rev. 177 (2023)), family.jotwell.com/reclaiming-a....
Linda C. McClain, Reclaiming Abortion as a Moral—and Religious—Decision, JOTWELL (March 7, 2025) (reviewing Elizabeth Sepper, Free Exercise of Abortion, 49 BYU L. Rev. 177 (2023)), family.jotwell.com/reclaiming-a....
With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
Agreed. I continued my way through Season 3 of Somebody Somewhere.
A piece of good news about US AID. I wonder if Musk will call for impeaching the two conservative SCOTUS justices-- C.J. Roberts and J. Amy Coney Barrett -- who joined the liberals on this ruling?: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
Trump Live Updates: Supreme Court Denies Bid to Freeze Nearly $2 Billion in Foreign Aid
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by Anne Applebaum — Reposted by: Linda C. McClain
"In just a few minutes, the behavior of Donald Trump and J. D. Vance created a brand new stereotype for America: not the quiet American, not the ugly American, but the brutal American"
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Europe Confronts the Rise of the Brutal American
This is how the bad guys act.
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Reposted by: Linda C. McClain
Started watching the SOTU... but had to switch to Yellowjackets because it was more calming.
Lots of great insights in this discussion, including the link between "strongman politics" and devaluing/destroying the role of government as doing good things in people's lives: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/o...
Opinion | What Man’s Man Politics Is Doing to America
And why Democrats shouldn’t try to “out-cowboy” Donald Trump.
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Reposted by: Linda C. McClain
DOGE is not a real department.
In order to be a real department, DOGE would have to be approved by Congress.
Pass it on.
In order to be a real department, DOGE would have to be approved by Congress.
Pass it on.
Reposted by: Linda C. McClain
182 law professors have signed on to a Statement of Urgency about the peril of the constitutional crisis that is now upon us. Complete list of signers below. Please read and repost!! Thank you!
"Notably missing [from Trump's 2025 proclamation about Black History Month] was a more somber mention of the 'incredible prejudice and hardship' that African Americans have faced, like the one Mr. Trump included in his 2020 proclamation." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
Amid Trump’s Anti-Diversity Effort, Black History Month Takes on New Meaning
Feb. 1 marks the first day of Black History Month, and suddenly the study of the Black experience may feel like an act of defiance.
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The White House 1/29/25 executive order, Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schools, re-establishes President Trump's 1776 Commission to promote "patriotic education." Here's my critique of the Commission's 1776 Report (Jan. 2020) as partisan & divisive:
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Civic Education in Circumstances of Constitutional Rot and Strong Polarization Rot
This Essay argues that civic education is crucial to remedying what Jack Balkin, in The Cycles of Constitutional Time, diagnoses as “constitutional rot” in the United States. A twenty-first century ci...
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If you can't tune in today, the webinar will be posted later on the website of BU Program on Reproductive Justice:
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BU Program on Reproductive Justice is cosponsoring this event. Speakers include authors @maryrziegler.bsky.social & Reva Siegel & commentators Serena Mayeri, @dsc250.bsky.social @lauraportuondo.bsky.social and my colleague Nicole Huberfeld.
by Linda C. McClain — Reposted by: Tracy A. Thomas
Join us for a BU Law webinar Friday, 1/17, 12-1:30, "Comstock Conflict in the New Trump Administration," on Reva Siegel & @maryrziegler.bsky.social article, "Comstockery: How Government Gave Birth to the Law of Sexual and Reproductive Freedom and May Again Threaten it." www.bu.edu/law/engageme...
Comstock Conflict in the New Trump Administration | School of Law
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