Conference Agenda

Friday, February 24, 2023

Location: American University Washington College of Law

8:30-9:00 am ET           Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00-9:15 am ET           Welcome Remarks

  • Roger A. Fairfax, Jr., JD, MA
    Dean; Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law
  • Linda Aldoory, PhD, MA
    Dean, College of Arts & Sciences; Professor, Department of Health Studies, American University

9:15-10:15 am ET           Opening Plenary

  • Khiara M. Bridges, PhD, JD
    Professor of Law, Berkeley Law
  • Diana Greene Foster, PhD, MA
    Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences; Director of Research, Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH), University of California, San Francisco

10:15-10:30 am ET           Break

10:30-11:30 am ET           Morning Panel 1: Historical Perspectives and Shifting Frameworks on Abortion

Moderated by: Tracy Weitz, PhD, MPA
Professor of Sociology; Director, Center on Health, Risk, and Society, American University

  • Sara Clarke Kaplan
    Executive Director, Antiracist Research & Policy Center; Associate Professor of Literature and Critical Race, Gender & Culture Studies, American University 
  • Sara Matthiesen, PhD
    Assistant Professor of U.S. Women and Gender, The George Washington University
  • Reva Siegel, JD, MPhil
    Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law, Yale Law School

11:30-11:40 am ET           Break

11:40-12:40 pm ET           Morning Panel 2: The Implications of Criminalizing Health Care for Patients, Providers, and Supporters

Moderated by: Maya Manian, JD
Professor of Law; Faculty Director of the Health Law and Policy Program, American University Washington College of Law

  • Aziza Ahmed, JD, MS
    Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law
  • Limayli Huguet, JD
    Helpline Counsel, If/When/How
  • Jill Lens, JD
    Robert A. Leflar Professor of Law; Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, University of Arkansas School of Law
  • Ophra Leyser-Whalen, PhD
    Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at El Paso
  • Bruce Siegel, MD, MPH
    President and CEO, America's Essential Hospitals

12:40-1:20 pm ET         Lunch Buffet

1:20-1:25 pm ET           Remarks from Ted Hutchinson, ASLME Executive Director and Publications Director of The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics

1:25-2:20pm ET           Lunch Keynote

  • Michele Bratcher Goodwin, JSD, JD, LLM
    Chancellor’s Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine School of Law

2:20-2:30 pm ET           Break

2:30-3:45 pm ET           Afternoon Panel 1: The Disproportionate Impact of Dobbs: Who Really Lost?

Moderated by: Anne Rossier Markus, PhD, MHS, JD
Professor; Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University 

  • Jasmine Harris, JD
    Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
  • Jenny O’Donnell, ScD, MSc
    Director of Research and Evaluation, Society of Family Planning
  • Whitney Rice, DrPh, MPH
    Rollins Assistant Professor of Behavioral, Social and Health Education Sciences; Director, Center for Reproductive Health Research in the Southeast (RISE), Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
  • Sara Rosenbaum, JD
    Professor Emerita, Health Law and Policy, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University
  • Amita Vyas, PhD, MHS
    Associate Professor, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University

3:45-4:00 pm ET           Break

4:00-5:00 pm ET           Afternoon Panel 2:  Interstate Travel and Interjurisdictional Reach of Abortion Bans

Moderated by: Paul Schiff Berman, JD
Walter S. Cox Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School

  • David Cohen, JD
    Professor of Law, Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law
  • Caitlin Myers, PhD
    John G. McCullough Professor of Economics, Middlebury College
  • Oriaku Njoku
    Executive Director, National Network of Abortion Funds
  • Tracy Weitz, PhD, MPA
    Professor of Sociology; Director, Center on Health, Risk, and Society, American University

Saturday, February 25, 2023

Location: The George Washington University Law School

8:30-9:00 am ET           Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00-9:15 am ET           Welcome Remarks

  • Dayna Bowen Matthew, PhD, JD
    Dean; Harold H. Greene Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School
  • Lynn Goldman, MD, MS, MPH
    Michael and Lori Milken Dean of the Milken Institute School of Public Health; Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health, The George Washington University

9:15-10:30 am ET           Morning Panel 1: The Regulated and Unregulated Marketplace for Medication Abortion

Moderated by: Lewis Grossman, PhD, JD
Professor of Law; Affiliate Professor of History, American University Washington College of Law

  • Yvonne Lindgren, JSD, JD, LLM
    Associate Professor of Law, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
  • Melissa Madera, PhD, MST, MA
    Researcher, the Self-Managed Abortion Needs Assessment Project, University of Texas, Austin 
  • Rachel Rebouché, JD, LLM
    Dean; James E. Beasley Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law
  • Ushma Upadhyay, PhD, MPH
    Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH), University of California, San Francisco

10:30-10:45 am ET           Break

10:45-11:45 am ET           Morning Panel 2: Health Care Data Privacy and the Surveillance State

Moderated by: Asha Scielzo, JD
Director, Health Law and Policy Program; Adjunct Professor, American University Washington College of Law

  • Bethany Corbin, Esq., LLM
    Healthcare Innovation and Women’s Health Attorney, Femtech Lawyer
  • Caitlin Gerdts, PhD, MHS
    Vice President of Research, Ibis Reproductive Health
  • Laura Lindberg, PhD
    Professor, Department of Urban-Global Public Health, Rutgers School of Public Health
  • Anya Prince, JD, MPP
    Professor of Law; Member, University of Iowa Genetics Cluster, University of Iowa College of Law
  • Kate Weisburd, JD
    Associate Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School

11:45-12:35 pm ET         Lunch Buffet

12:35-1:30 pm ET           Lunch Keynote

  • Jennifer Reich PhD, MA
    Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado Denver 

1:30-1:40 pm ET           Break

1:40-2:40 pm ET           Afternoon Panel 1: Freedom of Speech and Religion after Dobbs

Moderated by: Alan Morrison, LLB
Lerner Family Associate Dean for Public Interest and Public Service Law; Professorial Lecturer in Law, The George Washington University Law School

  • Laura Hercher, MA, MS
    Director of Research, Human Genetics, Sarah Lawrence College
  • Radhika Rao, JD
    Professor of Law; Harry & Lillian Hastings Research Chair, University of California College of Law, San Francisco
  • Adam Sieff, Esq.
    Counsel, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • Rabbi Barry Silver, Esq.
    Founder of Cosmic Judaism, Who's Who of American Law
  • Sonia Suter, JD, MS
    The Kahan Family Research Professor of Law; Founding Director, Health Law Initiative, The George Washington University Law School

2:40-2:50 pm ET           Break

2:50-3:50 pm ET           Afternoon Panel 2: The Impact of Dobbs Beyond Abortion

Moderated by: Naomi Cahn, JD, LLM
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy Distinguished Professor of Law; Nancy L. Buc ’69 Research Professor in Democracy and Equity; Co-Director, Family Law Center, University of Virginia School of Law

  • Kellan Baker, PhD, MPH, MA
    Executive Director and Chief Learning Officer, Whitman-Walker Health
  • Clare Coleman
    President and CEO, National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association
  • Lawrence "Bopper" Deyton, MD, MSPH
    Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Public Health; Murdock Head Professor of Medicine and Health Policy, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health
  • Courtney G. Joslin, JD
    Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law

3:50-4:00 pm ET           Break

4:00-5:00 pm ET           Closing Plenary

  • Kimberly Mutcherson, JD
    Co-Dean; Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School