Professor Tang Writes in Slate About What Justice Alito Gets Wrong on Abortion History

A 1908 case casts severe doubt on the historical assertions that underpinned Justice Samuel Alito’s leaked draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Professor Aaron Tang wrote in a June 2 op-ed for Slate.com. Read the op-ed.

Aaron Tang’s teaching and research interests include constitutional law, education law, federal courts, labor law, and the intersections among civil litigation, the political process, and public policy more broadly. A graduate of Stanford Law School, he has clerked for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and Justice Sonia Sotomayor of the U.S. Supreme Court. His scholarly articles have appeared in law journals such as the Stanford Law Review, New York University Law Review, Virginia Law Review, George Washington Law Review, and Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy.