Helena Silverstein
Thomas Roy and Lura Forrest Jones Professor of Government and Law and Department Head
Kirby Hall of Civil Rights - Room 208
Degrees
- M.A. and Ph.D., University of Washington
- B.A. University of Pennsylvania
Teaching interests: constitutional law; law and social movements; political theory
Research interests: law and society; laws mandating parental involvement in the abortion decisions of pregnant minors.
Selected publications:
The Supreme Court (Greenwood Press, 2021)
Girls on the Stand: How Courts Fail Pregnant Minors (NYU Press, 2007).
Unleashing Rights: Law Meaning, and the Animal Rights Movement(University of Michigan Press, 1996).