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Prof. Melissa Murray against black Southwestern Law School backdrop

Professor Melissa Murray Delivers the 2024 Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Annual Lecture

March 26, 2024

Los Angeles, CA — "Dobbs arrives in the wake of a series of high Court decisions ... that have made our democracy decidedly less representative and less democratic," warned Professor Melissa Murray, Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law at NYU Law, to an audience of legal scholars, practitioners, and students at the 2024 Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Lecture at Southwestern Law School. Her lecture, titled "Dobbs and Democracy," explored that erosion of American democracy in detail through a critical examination of the Supreme Court's Dobbs v.

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