Event: The Use of History in Judicial Opinions: The Case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization

Featuring:

Nicole Hemmer is an associate professor of history and director of the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Center for the Study of the Presidency at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of “Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics” and the recently published “Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s.” She is a CNN opinion columnist and also cohosts the history podcasts “Past Present” and “This Day in Esoteric Political History.”

Kim Welch is associate professor of history and law at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of "Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South," which won the Cromwell Prize as the best book on American legal history. She is a 2022 recipient of the Dan David Prize, the world’s largest prize for practitioners studying the human past.

Moderated by:

Amy Mohan is the founder and leader of Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison’s crisis management and media relations practice group, representing individuals and businesses and assisting clients with press strategies. Amy’s practice also consists of general civil litigation.