Constitutional Rights and Civil Rights

This seminar will focus on contemporary issues involving reproductive rights. Topics will vary from semester to semester, but will concern aspects of the right to procreate, the right to avoid procreation, legal issues involving pregnancy and childbirth, the role of the state in facilitating or hindering relevant rights and practices, and policy issues concerning the same. In the process, we will study relevant federal and state constitutional law, statutory and case law, proposed bills, and regulatory provisions. Students may use this seminar to fulfil their long paper requirement. Students may take this course for 2 or 3 credits. Students planning to satisfy the long paper requirement in this course, and students who have already satisfied the long paper requirement and plan to write another long paper in this course, should register for three credits. Blended courses open to all J.D. students.