Lee C. Bollinger served as Columbia University's 19th president from 2002 to 2023. He is Seth Low Professor of the University, a member of the Columbia Law School faculty, and one of the nation's foremost First Amendment scholars.Geoffrey R. Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. Mr. Stone joined the faculty in 1973, after serving as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. He is a preeminent constitutional law scholar.

If you ever wondered how our country went from Roe to Dobbs, then you must read this book. Professors Bollinger, Stone and their contributors explain the constitutional issues, laws and politics surrounding both decisions and explore what the real-world impact of the Court's decision will mean not only to abortion access but to all of our fundamental rights as Americans.

• AcknowledgmentsList of ContributorsDialogue Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone Part One The Supreme Court: Roe v. Dobbs1. Liberal Critics of Roe David A. Strauss2. Equality Emerges as a Ground for Abortion Rights in and After Dobbs Cary Franklin & Reva Siegel Part Two Close Readings of Roe3. Why Was Roe v. Wade Wrong? Jonathan Mitchell4. Justice Blackmun Got it Right in Roe v. Wade Erwin Chemerinsky Part Three The Path from Roe to Dobbs5. Abortion, Partisan Entrenchment, and the Republican Party Jack M. Balkin6. Some Realism About Precedent, In the Wake of Dobbs Michael W. McConnell Part Four Close Readings of Dobbs7. The Dobbs Gambit: Gaslighting at the Highest Level Khiara M. Bridges8. Dobbs and the Travails of Due Process Traditionalism Cass R. Sunstein9. Should Gradualism Have Prevailed in Dobbs? Richard M. Re10. Dobbs' Democratic Deficits Melissa Murray & Katherine Shaw Part Five Historical Perspectives11. The Failure of Dobbs: The Entanglement of Abortion Bans, Criminalized Pregnancies, and Forced Family Separation Dorothy Roberts12. A Requiem For Roe: When Property Has No Privacy Michele Bratcher Goodwin13. Where History Fails Nancy F. Cott14. How Contraception and Abortion Got Divorced Linda Gordon15. The Antiabortion Movement and the Punishment Prerogative Mary Ziegler Part Six International Perspectives16. Abortion Policy Aimed at Promoting Life As Much As Possible Mark Tushnet17. American Exceptionalism and the Comparative Constitutional Law of Abortion Tom Ginsburg Part Seven Implications for the Future18. Reproductive Technologies and Embryo Destruction After Dobbs Glenn Cohen19. Dobbs and Our Privacies Aziz Z. Huq & Rebecca Wexler20. The Unraveling: What Dobbs May Mean for Contraception, Liberty, and Constitutionalism Martha Minow Closing Dialogue Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone

Lee C. Bollinger served as Columbia University's 19th president from 2002 to 2023. He is Seth Low Professor of the University, a member of the Columbia Law School faculty, and one of the nation's foremost First Amendment scholars.Geoffrey R. Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. Mr. Stone joined the faculty in 1973, after serving as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. He is a preeminent constitutional law scholar.

If you ever wondered how our country went from Roe to Dobbs, then you must read this book. Professors Bollinger, Stone and their contributors explain the constitutional issues, laws and politics surrounding both decisions and explore what the real-world impact of the Court's decision will mean not only to abortion access but to all of our fundamental rights as Americans.

• AcknowledgmentsList of ContributorsDialogue Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone Part One The Supreme Court: Roe v. Dobbs1. Liberal Critics of Roe David A. Strauss2. Equality Emerges as a Ground for Abortion Rights in and After Dobbs Cary Franklin & Reva Siegel Part Two Close Readings of Roe3. Why Was Roe v. Wade Wrong? Jonathan Mitchell4. Justice Blackmun Got it Right in Roe v. Wade Erwin Chemerinsky Part Three The Path from Roe to Dobbs5. Abortion, Partisan Entrenchment, and the Republican Party Jack M. Balkin6. Some Realism About Precedent, In the Wake of Dobbs Michael W. McConnell Part Four Close Readings of Dobbs7. The Dobbs Gambit: Gaslighting at the Highest Level Khiara M. Bridges8. Dobbs and the Travails of Due Process Traditionalism Cass R. Sunstein9. Should Gradualism Have Prevailed in Dobbs? Richard M. Re10. Dobbs' Democratic Deficits Melissa Murray & Katherine Shaw Part Five Historical Perspectives11. The Failure of Dobbs: The Entanglement of Abortion Bans, Criminalized Pregnancies, and Forced Family Separation Dorothy Roberts12. A Requiem For Roe: When Property Has No Privacy Michele Bratcher Goodwin13. Where History Fails Nancy F. Cott14. How Contraception and Abortion Got Divorced Linda Gordon15. The Antiabortion Movement and the Punishment Prerogative Mary Ziegler Part Six International Perspectives16. Abortion Policy Aimed at Promoting Life As Much As Possible Mark Tushnet17. American Exceptionalism and the Comparative Constitutional Law of Abortion Tom Ginsburg Part Seven Implications for the Future18. Reproductive Technologies and Embryo Destruction After Dobbs Glenn Cohen19. Dobbs and Our Privacies Aziz Z. Huq & Rebecca Wexler20. The Unraveling: What Dobbs May Mean for Contraception, Liberty, and Constitutionalism Martha Minow Closing Dialogue Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone