Roy Lucas (lawyer)
Roy Lucas (born November 27, 1941 – November 2003) was an American lawyer and abortion rights activist, known for drafting a law review that laid the theoretical background behind the principles articulated in Roe v. Wade.[1]
Lucas established the James Madison Constitutional Law Institute to work for women's abortion rights,[1] and was instrumental in numerous abortion rights cases in the 1960s and 1970s, including Roe v. Wade.[1] After 1986, he focused primarily on art, painting and writing about art.[1]
He died of a heart attack in November, 2003.[1]
Bibliography
- "Functional Constitutional Limitations on the Enforcement and Administration of State Abortion Statutes", North Carolina Law Review, v.46 (June 1968)
Notes
Further research
- David Garrow, Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade (University of California Press, 1998).
- A. Raymond Randolph, "Address: Before Roe v. Wade: Judge Friendly's Draft Abortion Opinion", Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy (Summer 2006), v.29, n.3, pp. 1035–1062 (an unpublished draft opinion in an abortion rights case, preceded by a lengthy commentary from a conservative jurist discussing the history of abortion rights jurisprudence)
- Robert O. Self, "How Choice Won", Salon.com, Sept. 22, 2012.
- Research Libraries
- "Abortion Litigation Papers of Roy Lucas", Collection at Wesleyan University
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