Area of Expertise:: abortion, reproductive rights, women and politics, women's issues, reproductive rights
Additional Information:: Jessica Waters focuses her research primarily on reproductive rights law. Her recent work has explored questions related to the legal impact of women鈥檚 medical decisions during pregnancy and childbirth, employment-based conscience protections for reproductive health care providers, and the reproductive rights of employees working for religiously affiliated employers. Her work has been published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, the 蘑菇视频 Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law, and the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Prior to joining to joining the 蘑菇视频 faculty full-time, Waters was an adjunct professor at Washington College of Law and a litigator at WilmerHale, where she specialized in criminal defense litigation, internal investigations, and reproductive rights litigation and advocacy. She also clerked for the Honorable Emmet Sullivan on the D.C. District Court. Waters previously worked at a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting access to reproductive health care. Professor Waters also serves as the Chair of the Children's Law Center Advisory Board, and is a guardian ad litem in the D.C. courts.
Foreign Language Fluency:: n/a
Academic Credentials:: JD 蘑菇视频 Washington College of Law
Category:: Law-Business and Employment Law, Law-Courts, Law-Family Law, Politics-Women in Politics, Law
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