Education
- LLM, Georgetown University Law Center, 2016
- JD, American University Washington College of Law, 2010
- BA, Trinity College - Hartford, 2006
Meghan Boone
Professor of Law
Meghan Boone teaches and researches on topics related to the state regulation of the physical body, often focusing on the rights of pregnant, birthing, and parenting individuals. Because of her deep and expansive research focus, Professor Boone is considered an expert on matters related to lactation law, reproductive rights, family law, and gender equality in the workplace, among other timely topics. In 2020, she was named the winner of the American Association of Law School (AALS) Scholarly Papers Competition for her George Washington University Law Review article, "Reproductive Due Process."
Professor Boone comes to Wake Forest School of Law after serving as an assistant professor at the University of Alabama School of Law. From 2016-2018, she was a visiting professor of law at Wake Forest Law, where she taught civil procedure and other subjects. Professor Boone is also a former Clinical Teaching Fellow for the Institute for Representation at Georgetown University Law Center.
Courses
LAW 151 Civil Procedure II
LAW 152 Constitutional Law I
LAW 468 Reproductive Justice
LAW 508 Family Law
Publications
Articles
- Reproductive Objectification, 108 Minn. L. Rev. 2493 (2024).
- Expecting Violence: Centering the Experience of Violence in Pregnancy, 30 VA. J. SOC. POL'Y & L. 1 (2023).
- Reversing the Criminalization of Reproductive Health Care Access, 48 AM. J.L. & MED. 200 (2022).
- Perverse & Irrational, 16 Harvard L. & Pol'y Rev. 393 (2022).
- Chilling Parental Rights, 90 Fordham L. Rev. 2469 (2022).
- State Created Fetal Harm, 109 GEORGETOWN L. J. 475 (2021).
- Considering the Risks of Medical Paternalism and Tort Liability for Reproductive Harms: A Conversation with Jill Wieber Lens, 106 IOWA L. REV. ONLINE 37 (2021).
- "The Market Can't Be Your Mother," Review of Maxine Eichner, The Free Market Family, 119 MICH. L. REV. 1207 (2021).
- Reproductive Due Process, 88 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 511 (2020).
- Lactation Law, 106 CALIF. L. REV. 101 (2018).
- Book Review, Review of Alison Dahl Crossley, Finding Feminism: Millennial Activists and The Unfinished Gender Revolution, 43 CAN. J. SOCIOLOGY 89 (2018).
- The Autonomy Hierarchy, 22 Tex. J. C.L. & C.R. 1 (2016).
- Millennial Feminisms: How the Newest Generation of Lawyers May Change the Conversation About Gender Equality in the Workplace, 45 U. BALT. L. REV. 253 (2016).
- It's Only Covered If You Keep It: The Legality of Surrogate Pregnancy Exclusions in Health Insurance Policies, 14 GEO. J. GENDER & L. 677 (2013).
Other
- Book Review - PROSECUTING POVERTY, CRIMINALIZING CARE, PROSECUTING POVERTY, CRIMINALIZING CARE (September 1, 2023).
Presentations
- Teaching Reproductive Justice
AALS, January 5, 2024 - Patent 101 for the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research
January 1, 2024 - The Dobbs Decision & Its Ramifications
NCBA Constitutional Rights & Responsibilities Section, December 7, 2023 - Constitutional Family Law Post-Dobbs
SEALS, July 26, 2023 - Growing Inequality in Reproductive Healthcare Post-Dobbs
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, May 23, 2023 - The Hidden Public Health Harms of Fetal Personhood
Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender & Social Injustice, March 9, 2023 - Women Leading in Law
Wake Forest School of Law, February 24, 2023 - Expecting Violence: Centering the Experience of Violence in Pregnancy
Family Law Center, UVA School of Law, January 20, 2023 - The Legal Regulation of Reproductive Healthcare in a Post-Roe World
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, December 6, 2022 - Addressing Dobbs Across the Law School Curriculum
Society of American Law Teachers, October 14, 2022 - The Criminalization of Reproduction Before and After the Fall of Roe
Wake Forest University School of Law, October 6, 2022 - Family Law Scholarship & Beyond
Southeastern Association of Law Schools, August 3, 2022 - Gender-Based Violence: Contexts and Comparisons
Law and Society, July 13, 2022 - Violence and the Reproductive Vessel
Family Law Scholars and Teachers, June 22, 2022 - Perverse & Irrational
St. John's University School of Law, March 25, 2022 - The Chilling Effect of the Criminalization of Reproduction
University of Boston School of Law, January 28, 2022 - Perverse & Irrational
University of Georgia School of Law, January 24, 2022 - Hidden Harms in the Legal Regulation of Sex & Reproduction
American Association of Law Schools, January 5, 2022
Media
- Interviewed in "Texas judge to rule on abortion pill used by millions of Americans" CBS Evening News, February 27, 2023
- Alabama case over mistaken pregnancy highlights risks in a post-Roe world Reuters, December 6, 2022
- Who Owns the Body? Getting Common - Voice America, November 16, 2022
- Interviewed by Grace Holland, "NC 20-week abortion ban reinstated by federal judge" WFMY News, August 17, 2022
- Quoted in Claire Donnelly, "Laws regulating abortion in North Carolina date back to 1881" WFAE, June 1, 2022
- Quoted In Halle Friedman, "What a possible post-Roe future means for abortion access in North Carolina" The Chronicle, May 18, 2022
- Quoted in John Hinton, "Republicans will try to ban or further restrict abortions in N.C., legal and political experts say" Winston-Salem Journal, May 9, 2022
- In the wake of Supreme Court leak, NC advocates ponder the future of abortion in the state NC Health News, May 5, 2022
- "Pregnancy can negate a living will" Legal Examiner, October 13, 2020
- Ginsburg leaves legacy of fighting for equality Legal Examiner, September 25, 2020
Expertise
- Civil Rights/Anti-Discrimination Laws
- Constitutional Law
- Employment Discrimination
- Family Law
- Reproductive Rights
- Sex Discrimination