On Friday, October 28th, at its annual meeting, the American Society for Legal History will hold a panel discussion on The History of ‘History and Tradition’ in Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization.
The panel will feature papers from:
- Aaron Tang, University of California, Davis (aatang@ucdavis.edu): Lessons from Lawrence: How “History” Gave Us Dobbs—and How They Can Help Overrule It
- Reva Siegel, Yale University (reva.siegel@yale.edu): The History of History and Tradition: The Roots of Dobbs’s Method (and Originalism) in the Defense of Segregation
- Melissa Murray, New York University (murraym@mercury.law.nyu.edu) : Historicizing Democracy on the Road to Fetal Personhood in Dobbs
- Mary Ziegler, University of California, Davis (mziegler@ucdavis.edu): The Social-Movement History of “Tradition”: Dobbs, Coalition-Building, and Constitutional Doctrine on the Right
Cary Franklin, University of California, Los Angeles (franklin@law.ucla.edu) will offer commentary on the papers and on the Supreme Court's new "history and tradition" test. I will moderate and also offer comments on the papers.