Greer Donley Explained

Greer Donley
Birth Place:United States
Fields:Law
Workplaces:National Institutes of Health
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Alma Mater:Claremont McKenna College
University of Michigan School of Law
Known For:abortion law
bioethics
Awards:Haub Law Emerging Scholar Award in Women, Gender & Law
Chancellor's Distinguished Research Award

Greer Donley is an American attorney known for her expertise in abortion law and her advocacy for abortion rights. Donley is an associate professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and a John E. Murray Faculty Scholar. Donley was influential in drafting a 2022 law in Connecticut that shields residents from the antiabortion movement, a law that has since been modeled in other states.[1] She was the 11th most downloaded law professor in 2022.

Early life and education

Donley pursued her undergraduate degree at Claremont McKenna College, majoring in philosophy and ethics.[2] After graduating in 2009, Donley pursued a fellowship at the National Institutes of Health in the Department of Bioethics. Donley then pursued her Juris Doctor degree at the University of Michigan Law School, graduating in 2014.[3] During her time at the University of Michigan, Donley served as the editor-in-chief for the Michigan Journal of Gender and Law.[4]

Career

After law school, Donley worked as an associate in the office of Latham and Watkins, LLP in Washington, D.C., where she focused on healthcare-related cases. From 2017 to 2018, Donley clerked for Judge Robert Sack on the U.S. Court of Appeals on the Second Circuit.[5]

In 2018, Donley joined the University of Pittsburgh School of Law faculty. She holds the John E. Murray Faculty Scholar and is an Pittsburgh School of Law associate professor.[6] She also directs the Law and Bioethics joint degree program at the University of Pittsburgh. Donley is also a board member for the Women's Law Project.[7] [8]

Abortion legislation

In 2022, Donley and her colleagues published a paper[9] exploring the complex new legal dynamics that emerge as abortion legislation is dictated at the level of each state post-Roe v. Wade. Her work inspired a new law in Connecticut, that Donley helped draft, which protects individuals from the anti-abortion legislation in other states where citizens are allowed to sue people that assist in abortion procedures. Donley's efforts led to the "first abortion shield law in the country".[10] This law became the model for other laws and protections created by other states across the U.S.

Honors and awards

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Donley has written multiple op-eds in the New York Times, Slate Magazine, and Time and has been featured in many news articles discussing abortion legislation.

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Notes and References

  1. News: Kitchener . Caroline . 2022-05-03 . Conn. lawmakers pass bill to be ‘place of refuge’ for abortion patients . 2024-01-15 . Washington Post . en-US . 0190-8286.
  2. Web site: Alumni Claremont McKenna College . 2024-01-15 . www.cmc.edu . en.
  3. Web site: Greer Donley . 2024-01-15 . N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change . en-US.
  4. Web site: Greer Donley School of Law University of Pittsburgh . 2024-01-15 . www.law.pitt.edu.
  5. Web site: Greer Donley Receives 2020 Haub Law Emerging Scholar Award in Women, Gender & Law Pace Law School . 2024-01-15 . law.pace.edu.
  6. Web site: 2022-08-26 . Greer Donley . 2024-01-15 . Time . en.
  7. Web site: Greer Donley . 2024-01-15 . Slate Magazine . en.
  8. Web site: 2018-06-01 . BOARD OF TRUSTEES Women's Law Project . 2024-01-15 . en-US.
  9. Web site: Review . Columbia Law . THE NEW ABORTION BATTLEGROUND . 2024-01-15 . Columbia Law Review . en.
  10. Web site: Professor Greer Donley Receives Iris Marion Young Award at University Ceremony School of Law University of Pittsburgh . 2024-01-15 . www.law.pitt.edu.
  11. Web site: 2023-03-07 . 14 Pitt faculty members won 2023 Chancellor’s Distinguished Awards . 2024-01-15 . University of Pittsburgh . en.
  12. Web site: Caron . Paul . Jan 2023 . The 50 Most Downloaded U.S. Law Professors Of 2022 . Jan 14, 2024 . TaxProf.
  13. News: Donley . Greer . Dec 17, 2023 . What Happened to Kate Cox Is Tragic, and Completely Expected . Jan 14, 2024 . New York Times.
  14. News: Donley . Greer . June 23, 2022 . Abortion Pills Will Change a Post-Roe World . Jan 14, 2024 . New York Times.
  15. News: Donley . Greer . Lens . Jill Wieber . 2022-10-27 . Those Pregnancy Tissue Photos Were Destined to Backfire on Abortion Rights Supporters . 2024-01-15 . Slate . en-US . 1091-2339.
  16. Web site: 2022-08-26 . Two Courts Ruled on Abortion in Emergencies. One Got It Right . 2024-01-15 . TIME . en.
  17. Web site: 2023-12-08 . Dems want to focus on abortion rights. A Trump ally may have just helped. . 2024-01-15 . POLITICO . en.
  18. Web site: 2023-12-22 . A Black woman in Ohio was charged after miscarrying in her bathroom. Experts warn of the dangerous precedent. . 2024-01-15 . NBC News . en.
  19. Cohen . David S. . Donley . Greer . Rebouche . Rachel . 2022 . The New Abortion Battleground . SSRN Electronic Journal . en . 10.2139/ssrn.4032931 . 1556-5068.
  20. Donley . Greer . Lens . Jill . 2022-01-01 . Abortion, Pregnancy Loss, & Subjective Fetal Personhood . Vanderbilt Law Review, Forthcoming . 75.
  21. Web site: Review . Stanford Law . Anand . Meghan . 2022-08-27 . Rethinking Strategy After Dobbs . 2024-01-15 . Stanford Law Review . en.
  22. Web site: Medication Abortion Exceptionalism – Cornell Law Review . 2024-01-15 . www.cornelllawreview.org . en-US.
  23. Donley . Greer . 2013-01-01 . Does the Constitution Protect Abortions Based on Fetal Anomaly?: Examining the Potential for Disability-Selective Abortion Bans in the Age of Prenatal Whole Genome Sequencing . Michigan Journal of Gender & Law . 20 . 2 . 291–328 . 10.36641/mjgl.20.2.does . 1095-8835.

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