Experts available on Roe v. Wade

Supreme Court expert

• Specializes in judicial behavior and strategy in public law; Supreme Court oral arguments; criminal procedure; and constitutional law
• Co-founded ScotusOA, a website dedicated to empirical analysis of Supreme Court oral arguments

Constitutional law expert

John Henry Wigmore Professor of Law

• (312) 503-8372
• rjallen@law.northwestern.edu

• Expert in constitutional law
• Former commissioner of the Illinois Supreme Court
• Board member of the Constitutional Rights Foundation-Chicago

Expert in legal history and societal impact

Director of Legal Studies

• (847) 491-3987
• joanna.grisinger@northwestern.edu

• Teaches undergraduate courses in law and society; legal and constitutional U.S. history; constitutional law; and gender, sexuality and the law 
• Researches the modern administrative state in 20th-century U.S. legal and political history

Medical ethicist

Associate Professor of Medical Education, Medical Social Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology

• (312) 503-1675
• k-watson@northwestern.edu

• Medical ethicist
• Reproductive health expert
• Constitutional scholar

Recent publications

• Author of Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law and Politics of Ordinary Abortion
• Research articles on abortion published in JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet
• Article on the need to reframe abortion care as a health disparity published in the American Journal of Bioethics

Reproductive and public health expert

Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Director of the Center for Health Equity Transformation

• (312) 503-8780
• m-simon2@northwestern.edu

• Reproductive health and public health expert
• Scientist with a substantive body of National Institutes of Health-funded research on health equity
• Northwestern Medicine physician, mother of four children and a Latina

Abortion procedure expert

Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Director of Northwestern's Section and Fellowship in Complex Family Planning

• (312) 695-4458
• cha038@northwestern.edu

• Contraception and abortion among medically compromised patients
• First- and second-trimester medical and surgical abortion
• Sterilization
• OBGYN care of women with disabilities
• LGBTQ care

Dr. Hammond can speak about how common and safe abortion is, at what gestational ages abortions are performed, and medication abortions and telehealth. He has directed abortion education at Northwestern for 20 years and can address abortion education generally and what could happen to medical professionals’ training if abortion is restricted.

Expert on impact to transgender people

Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Chief of Gynecology and Gynecologic Surgery

• (312) 695-4458
• angela.chaudhari@northwestern.edu

• Women's health
• Minimally invasive gynecologic surgery
• Gender affirmation surgery
• Surgical education and physician wellness

Expert on impact to transgender people

Research Assistant Professor at the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing

• (312) 503-3610
• ricky@northwestern.edu

• How excluding the already-marginalized group of transgender individuals from the conversation increases barriers transgender people encounter when trying to access abortions

Expert on impact to employees

Professor of Management & Organizations

• (847) 467-5249
• l-rivera@kellogg.northwestern.edu

• Workplace personnel practices, with a focus on diversity, equity and inclusion
• Potential impact to women's labor force participation
• Pregnancy discrimination

Politics and religion expert

Professor of Political Science and Religious Studies and Crown Chair in Middle East Studies

• (847) 467-5412
• eshurd@northwestern.edu

• Impact of religion on U.S. policy
• Politics of religious freedom
• Women's bodily autonomy in a global context

American political expert

Professor of political science and African American studies
Director, Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy

• (847) 467-4697
• alvin.tillery@northwestern.edu

• Impact of abortion rights on political elections
• American political development
• Racial and ethnic politics
• Media and politics

Anthropology and religion expert

Professor of anthropology

• (847) 491-4841
• rgl201@northwestern.edu

• Social/cultural anthropology
• Islam
• History of anthropology
• Anthropological views of personhood

Sociology Expert

Professor and Chair of Sociology

• (847) 491-3718
• l-nielsen@northwestern.edu

• Research professor for the American Bar Foundation
• Sociology of law
• Inequality
• Gender
• Race

Expert on transgender politicsAssistant professor and media

Assistant Professor of Communications

• billard@northwestern.edu

• Transgender politics and the media
• Affiliated with the Center for Communication and Public Policy and the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing