Radhika Rao

Journal Articles

• What Would Justice Blackmun Say? A Response to Dobbs, 51 J.L. Med. & Ethics 468 (2023). URL
• Egg-Freezing, Uterine Transplants, and In Vitro Gametogenesis: Disruptive or Normalizing Reproductive Technologies?, 22 Hous. J. Health L. & Pol'y 123 (2022). FULLTEXT
• Informed Consent, Body Property, and Self-Sovereignty, 44 J.L. Med. & Ethics 437 (2016). FULLTEXT
• How (Not) to Regulate Assisted Reproductive Technology: Lessons from "Octomom", 49 Fam. L.Q. 135 (2015). FULLTEXT URL
• Selective Reduction: “A Soft Cover for Hard Choices”?, 43 J.L. Med. & Ethics 196 (2015).
• Hierarchies of Discrimination in Baby Making? A Response to Professor Carroll, 88 Ind. L.J. 1217 (2013). URL
• How (Not) to Regulate ARTs: Lessons from Octomom, 21 Alb. L.J. Sci. & Tech. 313 (2011). FULLTEXT
• Equal Liberty: Assisted Reproductive Technology and Reproductive Equality, 76 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1457 (2008). FULLTEXT
• Genes and Spleens: Property, Contract, or Privacy Rights in the Human Body?, 35 J.L. Med. & Ethics 371 (2007). FULLTEXT
• A Veil of Genetic Ignorance? Protecting Genetic Privacy to Ensure Equality, 51 Vill. L. Rev. 827 (2006). FULLTEXT
• Coercion, Commercialization, and Commodification: The Ethics of Compensation for Egg Donors in Stem Cell Research, 21 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 1055 (2006). FULLTEXT
• Legal Limitations on Genetic Research and the Commercialization of Its Results, 54 Am. J. Comp. L. 45 (2006) (with Michael J. Malinowski). FULLTEXT
• What's So Strange About Human Cloning?, 53 Hastings L.J. 1007 (2002). FULLTEXT
• Property, Privacy, and the Human Body, 80 B.U. L. Rev. 359 (2000). FULLTEXT
• Reconceiving Privacy: Relationships and Reproductive Technology, 45 UCLA L. Rev. 1077 (1998). FULLTEXT
• The Author of Roe, 26 Hastings Const. L.Q. 21 (1998). FULLTEXT
• Proprieta e Techologie Riproduttive, 15 RCDP 1 (1997).
• Assisted Reproductive Technology and the Threat to the Traditional Family, 47 Hastings L.J. 951 (1996) (reprinted in A Health Law Reader: An Interdisciplinary Approach 91 (John H. Robinson, Roberta M. Berry, & Kevin McDonnell eds., Carolina Academic Press 1999)). FULLTEXT

Chapters In Books

• Abortion, in Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law 0 (Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, and Rudiger Wolfrum eds., Oxford Univ. Press 2017). URL
• Abortion Rights, in Global Perspectives on Constitutional Law 73 (Vikram David Amar & Mark V. Tushnet eds., Oxford Univ. Press 2009). CATALOG
• Property, Privacy, and Other Legal Constructions of Human Embryos, in The 'Healthy' Embryo: Social, Biomedical, Legal and Philosophical Perspectives 32 (Jeff Nisker, Françoise Baylis, Isabel Karpin, Carolyn McLeod & Roxanne Mykitiuk, Cambridge Univ. Press 2009).
• Surrogacy Law in the United States: The Outcome of Ambivalence, in Surrogate Motherhood: International Perspectives 23 (Rachel Cook & Shelley Day Sclater eds., Hart 2003). CATALOG

Book Reviews

• Book Review, Law & Soc'y Rev. (2020) (reviewing Mary Ziegler, Beyond Abortion: Roe v. Wade and the Battle for Privacy (2018)). CATALOG
• Constitutional Misconceptions, 93 Mich. L. Rev. 1473 (1995) (reviewing John A. Robertson, Children of Choice (1994)). HEIN WL
• The Priest Who Kept His Faith But Lost His Job, 103 Harv. L. Rev. 2074 (1990) (reviewing Robert H. Bork, The Tempting of America (1990)). HEIN WL

Newspaper & Magazine Articles

• Outlawing Certain Methods Puts Right to Choose at Risk, L.A. Daily J., Aug. 29, 2000, at 6. CATALOG

Student Notes/Comments

• Comment, Equal Protection [Leading Cases, Supreme Court 1988 Term], 103 Harv. L. Rev. 217 (1989). HEIN WL