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Upcoming Events

• September 10, 2026

  Anna O. Law: “When Did U.S. Migration Enforcement Begin?”

  Time: 4PM
  In the Supreme Court’s recent Trump v Barbara opinion on birthright citizenship, Justice Alito’s asserted in his dissent that before and soon after the Civil War “immigration was unrestricted, so aliens could come and stay as long as they wanted.”
• September 14, 2026

  Karen Engle and Jennifer Laurin (University of Texas School of Law), “Criminalization by Other Means: New Sites and Strategies for Stifling Abortion Access”   

  Time: 4PM
  Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Texas has been home to one of the harshest criminal abortion bans in the country.
• October 1–2, 2026

  Sissy at 100

  Please join the Rapoport Center and the Sissy Farenthold Fund for Peace and Social Justice in celebrating what would have been Sissy Farenthold’s 100th birthday.
• October 5, 2026

  Valeria Gomez (University of Baltimore School of Law), “The New Abortion Borders for Immigrant Women” 

  Time: 4PM
  In the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the United States possesses a fragmented patchwork of state laws imposing varying degrees of restrictions on and penalties for abortion.
• October 19, 2026

  Valena Beety (Indiana University Maurer School of Law), “Reproductive Wrongful Convictions: The Making of ‘Unfit’ Mothers”

  Time: 4PM
  Faulty forensic evidence and biased evidence relying on sex-based stereotypes have long been used to convict innocent women in situations where an accident or health event has been misconstrued as a criminal act.

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