Join Massachusetts Bar Association President Victoria M. Santoro and MBA Treasurer Shayla
Mombeleur, in person or virtually, for an expert panel discussion on reproductive
rights. The discussion will include an overview of current and anticipated legal
challenges to reproductive rights and freedoms and what to expect in
Massachusetts and beyond in the coming years. Mombeleur will give brief remarks
regarding the impact that recent Supreme Court decisions may have on women of
color.
Our expert panel will be moderated by Martha Coakley of Foley Hoag LLP
with panelists Renée Landers of Suffolk University Law School and Amanda
Hainsworth of the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office.
Coakley is the former Massachusetts attorney general and current co-chair of
Foley Hoag’s State Attorney General practice. She focusses her practice on
government and internal investigations, litigation, and data privacy and
security.
Hainsworth serves as senior legal advisor to Massachusetts Attorney General
Andrea Joy Campbell, where she leads the strategic initiatives in areas
including reproductive and LGBTQ+ rights, gun violence prevention, AI and
emerging technology, and criminal legal reform.
Landers is a professor of law at Suffolk University Law School and is the
faculty director of the school’s Health and Biomedical Law Concentration and the
Master of Science in Law Life Sciences program. At Suffolk, she teaches
administrative law, constitutional law, health law and privacy law. She was a
Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the National Academy of Social Insurance and
helped complete the organization’s reports “Examining Approaches to Expanding
Medicare Eligibility: Key Design Options and Implications” and “Assuring
Economic Security for the 21st Century.”
This program is free to the legal community.
While we strongly encourage in-person attendance, we are offering online
participation via Zoom. Registration is required by noon on Thursday,
Oct. 10, to participate in this program. If you register for the Live
Webinar, an email from MassBar Education will be sent before
the program.