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[PAST EVENT] Wythe Lecture: Professor Melissa Murray (NYU Law)
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Professor Melissa Murray will deliver the annual Wythe Lecture titled Race-ing Roe: Reproductive Justice, Racial Justice, and the Battle for Roe v. Wade. She is the Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law at New York University School of Law.
About Professor Murray
Professor Murray teaches constitutional law, family law, criminal law, and reproductive rights and justice, among other courses. Murray’s research focuses on the legal regulation of sex and sexuality and encompasses such topics as marriage and its alternatives, the marriage equality debate, the legal recognition of caregiving, and reproductive rights and justice. Her publications have appeared (or are forthcoming) in the California Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Harvard Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Pennsylvania Law Review, Virginia Law Review, and Yale Law Journal, among others. She is an author of "Cases on Reproductive Rights and Justice," the first casebook to cover the field of reproductive rights and justice. She has translated her scholarly writing for more popular audiences by publishing in the New York Times, Newsweek, the San Francisco Chronicle, Vanity Fair, and the Huffington Post, and has offered commentary for numerous media outlets, including NPR, MSNBC, and PBS. Read more about Professor Murray on the New York University School of Law website.
About the Wythe Lecture
The George Wythe Lecture Series began at the Law School in 1976. Wythe (1726-1806) was a distinguished lawyer, statesman, and judge, and mentor to Thomas Jefferson. In 1779, at Jefferson’s urging, he was appointed as William & Mary’s — and the nation’s — first professor of law.
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