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Douglas Laycock

Douglas Laycock is Alice McKean Young Regents Chair Emeritus at the University of Texas and Distinguished Professor of Law at University of Virginia.

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Judith Jarvis Thomson’s latest essay on abortion is a futile attempt to resolve the nation’s most divisive issue by allocating the burden of proof to the other side. She says we are...
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