Martha Davis

“The court is trying to get out of the business of construing the Texas abortion statute, but by doing so, it simply leaves the statute in place to continue deterring doctors from taking a risk that might end their practice,” Northeastern University law professor Martha Davis tells Vox.

Martha Davis, a law professor at Northeastern University who has studied state constitutions, said the provision’s prominence in the document gives Montana courts the authority to find government officials in violation of the law and the power to monitor compliance.

“Regardless of what the outcome is, it’s going to strengthen the efforts of advocates to establish some kind of right to sue” under state environmental provisions, Northeastern University law professor Martha Davis said.

One consequence of the Supreme Court’s ruling, said Martha Davis, a law professor at Northeastern University in Boston, is that the right to abortion will no longer be determined by one national Constitution but by varying interpretations of 50 state constitutions.

Guest article written by Martha Davis, Professor of Law at Northeastern University

Despite the growing public pressure, Martha Davis, a constitutional law professor at Northeastern University and author of an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to strike down Mississippi’s strict abortion law, told The Post that she doesn’t think it will have a large effect. “But I also don’t think it’s set in stone,” she said. “I […]

Martha Davis, a Northeastern University Law Professor, has been studying water affordability for years. “Everybody needs water, you know. You need water, whether you can afford it or not,” said Davis.