Meghan Boone

Meghan Boone

Associate 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.

Education

LLM, Georgetown University Law Center, 2016
JD, American University Washington College of Law, 2010
BA, Trinity College - Hartford, 2006

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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).

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