Looking to Europe Post-Dobbs? Gendered Backsliding and the Search for Reproductive Justice

The US Supreme Court’s Dobbs judgment sparked global debate on reproductive rights, raising questions across Europe about the protection of abortion access. This talk examines recent European developments, including constitutional reforms and judicial strategies, and reflects on the challenges of safeguarding reproductive justice amid gendered democratic backsliding.

Biography

Silvia Suteu is Professor of Law at the European University Institute in Florence, specializing in comparative constitutional law, gender and human rights. She is the author of Eternity Clauses in Democratic Constitutionalism (Oxford University Press, 2021), awarded the 2023 ICON-S Book Prize.