Reproductive Rights: A New Era? Featuring Olatunde Johnson and Eleonora Bottini

Olatunde Johnson is the Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’59 Professor of Law at Columbia University. She teaches and writes about anti-discrimination law, congressional power, and courts. She is a recipient of several awards for her teaching and service at Columbia Law School.  Prior to entering academia, Professor Johnson clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court, served as constitutional and civil rights counsel to Senator Edward M. Kennedy on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and as a lawyer at the NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund. 

Eleonora Bottini is Full Professor of Public Law at the University of Caen-Normandy (France) and is currently the Martin-Flynn Global Law Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law. She served previously as associate professor at Sorbonne Law School in Paris and was the Alliance Visiting Professor at Columbia University. She specializes in comparative constitutional law, French constitutional law and legal theory. She has published several articles and book chapters in French, Italian and English and she is the author of a book based on her PhD thesis, “Constitutional sanction: study of a doctrinal argument” (Dalloz, 2016, in French), on the theoretical origins of judicial review.