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The College of Staten Island’s Legal Studies Institute (LSI) is housed within the Department of Political Science and Global Affairs and the Department of Philosophy.

Sunday, September 11, 2016


The College of Staten Island Legal Studies Institute’s 2016 Annual Lecture in Law, Philosophy, and Public Policy

The Abortion Conflict and the Court:
From Casey (1992) to Whole Women’s Health (2016)

Reva Siegel
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law
Yale Law School

Thursday, September 15th
Williamson Theatre, Center for the Performing Arts
Building 1 P
5:00 o'clock

Reception to Follow in the West Lounge


Professor Reva Siegel is the Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Professor Siegel’s writing draws on legal history to explore questions of law and inequality and to analyze how courts interact with representative government and popular movements in interpreting the Constitution. 

Her recent articles include Casey and The Clinic Closings: When “Protecting Health” Obstructs Choice, 125 Yale L.J. 1428 (2016) (with Linda Greenhouse); Conscience Wars: Complicity-Based Conscience Claims in Religion and Politics, 124 Yale L.J. (2015) (with Doug NeJaime); Meador Lecture: Race-Conscious, But Race-Neutral? The Constitutionality of Disparate Impact in the Roberts Court, 66 Ala. L. Rev. (2015); The Supreme Court, 2012 Term — Foreword: Equality Divided, 127 Harv. L. Rev. (2013); and The Constitutionalization of Abortion, in The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law 1057 (Oxford University Press 2012). Her books include Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking (with Paul Brest, Sanford Levinson, Jack M. Balkin, and Akhil Reed Amar, 2014); Before Roe v. Wade: Voices That Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court’s Ruling (with Linda Greenhouse, 2012); and The Constitution in 2020 (edited with Jack M. Balkin, 2009). Professor Siegel is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an honorary fellow of the American Society for Legal History, and serves on the board of the American Constitution Society and on the General Council of the International Society of Public Law.

For more information, contact Professor Michael Paris, Michael.Paris@csi.cuny.edu

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