Women, Law and the Global Economy was a research seminar held at Northern Illinois University College of Law in the fall term 2022. Law students addressed patterns of gendered inequality in the changing and interdependent global economy. The seminar also addressed the impact of free trade agreements, gendered labor patterns, climate change and its role in waves of human migration, human trafficking (labor and sex) and efforts to cope with the financial and public health problems resulting from a global pandemic. Discussions of global concerns included the gendered impact of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org. (2022) where the Supreme Court overruled a fifty year precedent upholding a woman’s constitutional right of privacy to terminate a non-viable pregnancy (Roe v. Wade) (1973).
Below are links to selected student works inspired by this graduate seminar.
AUTUMN BEAUPRE
MADALYN DAUGHRITY
Agriculture Sustainability: How It Is Impacted by Gender Inequality and the Use of Biotechnology
DANIELLE KACZANOWSKI
Discrimination Against Women at the Border
BRANDON PHETSADASACK
HANNAH SHELLEY
The Financial Burden of Forced Pregnancies