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Fundamental Rights and Substantive Due Process · Module 11

Family Autonomy; Reproductive Autonomy

Family and reproduction: the right to direct a child's upbringing, the contraception line, and abortion before and after Dobbs — including what Dobbs left standing in the rest of the doctrine.

Assigned reading

Chemerinsky, Constitutional Law (7th ed. 2023) — 827–87.

The casebook is the assigned text for this course. This page is the map: what the Module is doing, in what order, and what goes with it.

Topics

The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children. The right to procreate; contraception; abortion before and after Dobbs. What Dobbs did and did not unsettle in the rest of this line.

Reading list

0 of 10 readings published · the rest are in preparation and will appear here as they are edited

  1. Opinion Meyer v. Nebraska in preparation
  2. Opinion Pierce v. Society of Sisters in preparation
  3. Opinion Troxel v. Granville in preparation
  4. Opinion Buck v. Bell in preparation
  5. Opinion Skinner v. Oklahoma ex rel. Williamson in preparation
  6. Opinion Griswold v. Connecticut in preparation
  7. Opinion Eisenstadt v. Baird in preparation
  8. Opinion Roe v. Wade in preparation
  9. Opinion Planned Parenthood v. Casey in preparation
  10. Opinion Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization in preparation

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How to read this list

A case named without a marker is assigned as an opinion and is to be read in its entirety. Opinion (edited) means the Professor has cut it for length; the text on this site is the assigned text. Note means the case is not assigned as an opinion at all — its holding, its facts to the extent they matter, and its place in the doctrinal line are given in a note written for this course, and you are responsible for that note exactly as you are responsible for an assigned opinion. Most modules close with a Current case, a recent decision chosen because it shows the doctrine you have just read being applied at its live edge; current cases are assigned as opinions. You are responsible for all assigned required materials, including the notes, questions, problems and commentary that accompany the cases, whether or not we discuss them in class.