CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
ANNUAL CONSTITUTION DAY PROGRAM
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
MOOT COURTROOM
SCHOOL OF LAW
11075 EAST BOULEVARD
CLEVELAND, OHIO 44106-1769

Post – Dobbs: The State and Federal Landscape

Join a CWRU STUDENT PANEL for a program featuring

	David Forte, J.D. Professor of Law Cleveland State University
	Jessie Hill, J.D. Professor of Law Case Western Reserve University

The CWRU Society for Constitutional Policy (SCP) welcomes CWRU Law Professor Jessie Hill and CSU Law Professor David Forte to discuss critical questions on abortion following Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022).

David Forte, J.D. is Professor of Law at Cleveland State University, where he was the inaugural holder of the Charles R. Emrick, Jr. – Calfee Halter & Griswold Endowed Chair. He holds degrees from Harvard College, Manchester University, England, the University of Toronto and Columbia University.

Professor Forte writes and speaks nationally on topics such as constitutional law, natural law, constitutional history, religious liberty, Islamic law, the rights of families, and international affairs. He served as book review editor for the American Journal of Jurisprudence and has edited a volume entitled, Natural Law and Contemporary Public Policy, published by Georgetown University Press. His book, Islamic Law Studies: Classical and Contemporary Applications, has been published by Austin & Winfield. He is Senior Editor of The Heritage Guide to the Constitution (2006) 2d., ed (2013) published by Regnery & Co, a clause by clause analysis of the Constitution of the United States.

Jessie Hill, J.D. joined the Case Western Reserve University School of Law faculty in 2003 after practicing First Amendment and civil rights law with the firm of Berkman, Gordon, Murray & DeVan in Cleveland. Before entering private practice, Jessie Hill worked at the Reproductive Freedom Project of the national ACLU office in New York, litigating challenges to state-law restrictions on reproductive rights. She also served as law clerk to the Honorable Karen Nelson Moore of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Professor Hill’s teaching focuses on constitutional law, federal civil procedure, civil rights, reproductive rights, and law and religion. Her scholarship has been published in the Michigan Law Review and the Texas Law Review, among others.

Program planned by the 2022 CWRU Society for Constitutional Policy:
Hannah Bolender, Jack Heneghan (risk manager), Kelly Mallon, Alejandro Pasquel (president),
Rohit Rakhit, Kenneth Schall (secretary), Sarah Wu (vice president)

Faculty Advisors: William Doll, Andrew Lucker, Laura Tartakoff, and Joe White

Sponsored by the Office of the President, Office of Government and Community Relations,
Department of Political Science, Center for Policy Studies, and School of Law

A reception will follow at The Law School.