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History Class Welcomes Guest Speakers Melissa Murray and Joshua Matz

The history elective, "(Dis)order in the Courts: Gender and American Legal History," welcomed two fantastic speakers in the past few weeks.
Melissa Murray, the Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law at New York University, engaged the class in a discussion about reproductive justice and rights in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision. 

Joshua Matz, partner at Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP, talked to students via zoom about the legal battle that he is leading against the Florida H.B. 1557 (“Don’t Say Gay”) law. 

Dalton students impressed both speakers with thoughtful questions and insights, and vibrant debates ensued about the civic importance of learning legal history at a time when the Supreme Court consistently invokes so-called originalism.
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