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From Carrie Buck to Britney Spears: Strategies for Disrupting the Ongoing Reproductive Oppression of Disabled People
In June 2021, Britney Spears made headlines when she testified to a judge that she was being prevented from having children because her conservator would not allow her to stop using contraception. Britney Spears’s dreadful experiences are a glaring …
Government Speech and First Amendment Capture
Alarm regarding government speech is not new. In earlier decades, scholars worried that the government’s speech might monopolize a marketplace and drown out opposing viewpoints. But today, using a move I term “First Amendment capture,” the …
Race, Ramos, and the Second Amendment Standard of Review
Gun control in the United States has a racist history. Nevertheless, federal courts and academics have invoked Southern gun restrictions enacted after the Civil War to suggest that history supports stringent regulation of the right to bear arms. We …
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Accepted Note from the October 2021 Notes Pool
October 2021 Notes Pool
Today, the court will decide Britney's fate. As I recently wrote for @VirginiaLawRev, Britney's tragic experiences demonstrate the ongoing, substantial, and pervasive reproductive oppression of people with disabilities. We must achieve reproductive justice for all. #FreeBritney https://twitter.com/RobynMPowell/status/1450083250379046912
Thrilled to share my latest article, "From Carrie Buck to Britney Spears: Disrupting the Ongoing Reproductive Oppression of Disabled People," now published in @VirginiaLawRev! https://www.virginialawreview.org/articles/from-carrie-buck-to-britney-spears-strategies-for-disrupting-the-ongoing-reproductive-oppression-of-disabled-people/ #FreeBritney
Interested in learning more about the law behind the recent Britney Spears headlines? Check out the new @VirginiaLawRev article by @RobynMPowell : “From Carrie Buck to Britney Spears: Disrupting the Ongoing Reproductive Oppression of Disabled People” #WomenAlsoKnowLaw
🎃 No tricks, only treats in our October issue, which you can check out below! 🎃
.@RobynMPowell discusses Britney Spears, disability, and reproductive oppression in @VirginiaLawRev. Read here: https://buff.ly/2Xsygf8
Did you hear Justice Sotomayor and @StrictScrutiny_ discuss @TonjaJacobi and Dylan Schweers’s 2017 piece “Justice, Interrupted” on the ideological and gender divide in who interrupts—and who is interrupted—during SCOTUS oral arguments? Whole piece here⤵️ http://www.virginialawreview.org/articles/justice-interrupted-effect-gender-ideology-and-seniority-supreme-court-oral/