SMNR: Reproductive Justice, Criminal Law, and the Carceral State

• Semester: Fall 2026
• Course ID: 397S
• Credit Hours: 3
• Unique: 32009

Registration Status: Open

Description

This seminar will use a reproductive justice lens to consider the criminalization of reproduction, broadly understood, as well as other topics implication issues of reproductive justice and rights—historical and contemporary, local and global. It will be organized around the work of leading scholars, mostly but not exclusively in law, who will present their research in a public forum as part of the course. Students will read work by each speaker as well as related scholarly materials. Students are expected to participate actively in class discussions, engage with speakers during the public lectures, write short critical responses to assigned reading, and write a longer essay on a topic related to the themes that arise during the semester. The seminar is open to law students as well as non-law graduate and professional students with relevant background.