The latest major development in abortion law has brought global headlines – and swift action by members of UCLA School of Law’s Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy (CRHLP). On May 1, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a decision in Louisiana v. FDA that effectively halted patients from obtaining through the mail or a pharmacy the abortion and miscarriage drug mifepristone. Then, on May 4, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a one-week administrative stay.
The day Daniel Zimmerman arrived in the United States as a German exchange student, he walked into his new high school and locked eyes with Deborah. It was a moment neither of them would forget, and the beginning of a love story that would carry them across continents and, eventually, to UCLA School of Law.
Case: Seyb v. Members of the Idaho Board of Medicine, et al.
Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho
Citation: No. 24-cv-00244 (D. Idaho Feb. 26, 2026).
The below summarized scholarship addresses legal issues arising from the conflict between states that have penalized reproductive and gender-affirming health care and states that have protected that care through shield laws.
Hayley Amster, Abortion, Blocking Laws, and the Full Faith and Credit Clause, Stanford Law Review Online (2024).
Join UCLA Law's Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy, PILP, and the UCLA If/When/How chapter for a discussion on careers within the field of reproductive justice. Students will learn and get advice from attorneys from a variety of areas, including impact litigation, state government, policy, in-house general counsel, and more. Panelists will discuss their career paths, offer insights for students interested in similar careers, and field questions from students. Lunch will be provided! RSVP here: https://bit.ly/ReproCareers.
Since Dobbs, ten states have ratified constitutional amendments codifying the right to abortion and reproductive rights more broadly. Join CRHLP experts in conversation with lawyers on the frontlines of litigation and ballot campaigns in Ohio, Michigan, and Missouri to learn about these new constitutional guarantees and what it takes to make their promise real.
UCLA School of Law is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider. This session has requested MCLE credit and is currently pending approval.
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With the start of the U.S. Supreme Court’s term this month, UCLA School of Law has been at the forefront of discussion, scholarship, and advocacy before the high court. This included two events that featured nationally renowned legal commentators – the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Linda Greenhouse and University of Michigan Law School professor Leah Litman – in conversation with faculty experts.
Case: Planned Parenthood of Michigan v. Attorney General of the State of Michigan
Court: State of Michigan Court of Claims
Citation: 2022 WL 7076177 (Mich. Ct. Cl. 2022)
Holding: The court held unconstitutional Michigan’s 1931 law, which made abortion a felony, and granted permanent declaratory and injunctive relief prohibiting enforcement of the 1931 law.
Case: Oklahoma Call for Reproductive Justice v. Drummond
Court: Oklahoma Supreme Court
Citation: 526 P.3d 1123 (Okla. 2023)