@proflmcclain
Robert Kent Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law; co-director, BU Program on Reproductive Justice. Interests: family law, feminist legal theory; gender and law, reproductive rights/justice, civil rights, law and religion, law & literature.
Linda C. McClain
Jotwell Family:
Linda C. McClain, Meeting the Challenge of Civic Education in Hyperpolarized Times, JOTWELL (February 26, 2026) (reviewing Elizabeth Beaumont & Eric Beerbohm, eds., Civic Education in Polarized Times (2024)), family.jotwell.com/meeting-the-....
Very delighted to contribute this essay on @serenamayeri.bsky.social significant new book, Marital Privilege in a new book symposium in BU Law Review Online: www.bu.edu/bulawreview/...
Kudos, Serena!
Judge Patrick J. Schlitz: ICE has violated more judicial directives in one month than "some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...
I recently had the chance to participate in the Oral History Project of @mlafineman.bsky.social Feminism and Legal Theory Project and talk about how my involvement with the Project (beginning with the Columbia years) shaped my career and about the Project's broader impact. vimeo.com/1131482196
Keynote by @azizaahmed.bsky.social with commentary by Prof. Michele Goodwin and two panels of amazing speakers. Can attend in person or virtually: app.registrationguru.net#!/portal?eve...
BU Program on Reproductive Justice thrilled to co-sponsor 10/3 symposium, "Risk and Resistance: Feminist Interventions in Health Law, Science, and Policy," celebrating new book by BURPJ co-dir. @azizaahmed.bsky.social w/ @universitypress.cambridge.org www.american.edu/wcl/impact/i...
This beautiful tribute to Dick Fallon brought tears to my eyes. Thanks, @dorfonlaw.bsky.social, for capturing Dick's humility, brilliance, and so many scholarly virtues. Like so many of his students, my daughter feels inexpressibly grateful to have studied with him.
Here's a witty and apt post by @athenais.bsky.social on why a tradwife appeal to "the princess treatment" by her husband misunderstand princesses, their treatment, and their power! open.substack.com/pub/allisont...
Important insights by historian Steven Hahn in this @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social episode about a long history of "illiberalism" in the US -- similar to pol scientist Rogers Smith on the different strands of the American tradition: Trumpism www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/o...
Looking forward to this BU Law panel today, with @mayamanian.bsky.social @matiangai.bsky.social and Jackie Dugard on Aziza Ahmed and my Routledge Companion to Gender and COVID-19. Can watch virtually! www.bu.edu/law/engageme...
Very excited to announce that BU School of Law and BU Program on Reproductive Justice are seeking an Executive Director and Lecturer to help build the program and train the next generation of reproductive justice advocates. Please spread the word: jobs.silkroad.com/BU/Faculty/j...
As @lsepper.bsky.social argues, there is a long history of arguing that abortion decisions are rooted in religious beliefs (like the challenge to the Hyde Amendment) but the dominant story has been that religious liberty is only at issue in opposition to abortion.
Here's my review for @jotwell.bsky.social of @lsepper.bsky.social on why religious liberty challenges to state abortion bans should succeed (but likely won't) before SCOTUS but may fare better in state courts, like Indiana. family.jotwell.com/reclaiming-a....
Proud of my friend Bill Treanor and proud to be Georgetown Law alum!
Here is my review of Prof. Elizabeth Sepper's informative argument about why religious liberty challenges to state abortion bans should succeed in SCOTUS, but likely won't, but may fare better in state courts.
Agreed. I continued my way through Season 3 of Somebody Somewhere.
Trump has turned us into a predator nation in the world’s eyes.
A piece of good news about US AID. I wonder if Musk will call for impeaching the two conservative SCOTUS justices-- C.J. Roberts and J. Amy Coney Barrett -- who joined the liberals on this ruling?: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
Lots of great insights in this discussion, including the link between "strongman politics" and devaluing/destroying the role of government as doing good things in people's lives: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/o...
There Is No Musk Exception in the Constitution www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...
182 law professors have signed on to a Statement of Urgency about the peril of the constitutional crisis that is now upon us. Complete list of signers below. Please read and repost!! Thank you!
DOGE is not a real department.
In order to be a real department, DOGE would have to be approved by Congress.
Pass it on.
"Notably missing [from Trump's 2025 proclamation about Black History Month] was a more somber mention of the 'incredible prejudice and hardship' that African Americans have faced, like the one Mr. Trump included in his 2020 proclamation." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
The White House 1/29/25 executive order, Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schools, re-establishes President Trump's 1776 Commission to promote "patriotic education." Here's my critique of the Commission's 1776 Report (Jan. 2020) as partisan & divisive:
scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scho...
If you can't tune in today, the webinar will be posted later on the website of BU Program on Reproductive Justice:
www.bu.edu/law/academic...
Happening today at noon ET!:
BU Program on Reproductive Justice is cosponsoring this event. Speakers include authors @maryrziegler.bsky.social & Reva Siegel & commentators Serena Mayeri, @dsc250.bsky.social @lauraportuondo.bsky.social and my colleague Nicole Huberfeld.
Join us for a BU Law webinar Friday, 1/17, 12-1:30, "Comstock Conflict in the New Trump Administration," on Reva Siegel & @maryrziegler.bsky.social article, "Comstockery: How Government Gave Birth to the Law of Sexual and Reproductive Freedom and May Again Threaten it." www.bu.edu/law/engageme...
