The University of Detroit Mercy School of Law will present the 106th Detroit Mercy Law Review Symposium: “Governing Bodies: Bodily Autonomy and the Law” virtually on Friday, March 4 from noon to 5:15 p.m.
The virtual symposium consists of three panels:
• Introduction/Autonomy at Life’s Beginning and End
- Abigail Matthews & Rebecca Kreitzer, “Viewing Bodily Autonomy Issues Across the States”
- Shaakirrah Sanders, “The Fetal Equality Gap”
- Alexandra Klein, “Choosing how the State Kills”
- Bernadette Nunley, “Regulating Autonomy at Life’s End”
• Autonomy & Inequality
- Katherine Macfarlane, “Disability Law’s Coercive Medical Encounters”
- Joonu Coste, “Intersectional Legal Analysis of Disability, Mental Illness, Race, and State Violence”
- Brittany Raposa, “Reproductive Slavery: The Exclusion of Women of Color from Reproductive Autonomy and Liberty”
- Jennifer Brobst, “Civil Liability for Systemic Risks of Sexual Violence”
• Exemptions & Exceptions to Autonomy
- Prianka Nair, “Guardianship and the Deprivation of Bodily Autonomy”
- Amber Polk, “The Interpersonal Dimension of Individual Freedom: Why Vaccines Are Not Entirely a Matter of Individual Choice”
- Shanthi Senthe, “Losses and Gains: Regulating Bodies in a Players’ Market”
- John Browning, “Is the Devil in the Details?”
Each panel will provide time for questions and answers.
The event will be streamed virtually.. To register, visit https://law.udmercy.edu and scroll down to upcoming events.
For questions regarding the Law Review Symposium, contact Symposium Director Mackenzie Clark at clarkme1@ udmercy.edu.
