Dobbs and Democracy

WB128

4 p.m.

Panel 1 | Can American Democracy Protect Reproductive Rights?

Panelists

• Shwetika Baijal, Senior Director of Campaigns, Planned Parenthood Action Fund
• Natasha Chabria, Campaign Director, Immigrant Justice/Medication Abortion, All* Above All
• Jennifer Lawless, Leone Reaves and George W. Spicer Professor of Politics, Professor of Public Policy, Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, University of Virginia
• Ryan Snow ’18, Counsel, Voting Rights Project, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
• Moderator: Michael Gilbert, Vice Dean, Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law

5 p.m.

Panel 2 | State Constitutions and Prosecutorial Discretion in a Post-Dobbs World

Panelists

• Sherry Boston, District Attorney, Dekalb County, Georgia
• Mark Herring, Partner, Akin Gump, Former Attorney General of Virginia
• Justin Murray, Associate Professor of Law, New York Law School
• Steve Descano, Commonwealth’s Attorney, Fairfax County, Virginia
• Mila Versteeg, Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation Professor of Law, Director, Center for International & Comparative Law, Director, Human Rights Program, Senior Fellow, Miller Center, University of Virginia
• Moderator: Anne Coughlin, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law

6:30 p.m.

Keynote Address

• Melissa Murray, Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network, New York University School of Law; Co-Host, “Strict Scrutiny” Podcast
• Moderator: Bertrall Ross, Justice Thurgood Marshall Distinguished Professor of Law, Director, Karsh Center for Law and Democracy, University of Virginia School of Law