18th Annual Philip Pro Lecture in Legal History with Professor Mary Ziegler

Approved for 1 Nevada MCLE credit

This program is free. Registration is required.

Program Schedule:

• 4:00 PM - Pre lecture reception with Book Signing of Roe: The History of a National Obsession
• 5:00 PM - Lecture
• 6:00 PM - Post lecture reception and networking

Historians and legal scholars of reproductive health, rights, and justice have chronicled how conflicts about abortion both reflect and fundamentally alter conversations about gender and race in America. Understanding the demise of Roe v. Wade—and its consequences—shows that the decriminalization of abortion has also involved a broader campaign to change both the meaning of equality under the law and the functioning of American democracy. Mary Ziegler traces this campaign from its inception in the 1960s through the decision of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and beyond, from fights to overhaul the rules of voting and campaign finance to an ongoing effort to recognize fetal personhood—and transform what discrimination means under the Constitution.

About the Speaker

Mary Ziegler is the Martin Luther King Professor of Law at the University of California Davis. One of the world’s leading historians of the abortion debate in the United States, she is the author of six books on social movement struggles around abortion, including the award-winning After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate (Harvard University Press, 2015) and Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Her latest book, Roe: The History of a National Obsession, was published by Yale University Press in January 2023. Ziegler frequently works with leading media outlets around the world, including the Atlantic, CNN, NPR, PBS Newshour, and the New York Times.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

William S. Boyd School of Law, Thomas & Mack Moot Court Facility, Las Vegas, United States