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Biographical Note

Associate Professor Manian received her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan
and her law degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she served on the Harvard Law Review. After law school, she was a Fulbright scholar in India, studying India's domestic
violence laws. She served as a law clerk to Judge James R. Browning of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She practiced civil rights litigation at the Center for Reproductive Rights in New York City, as a Blackmun Fellowship Attorney. She was an associate at Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin and also a deputy attorney general for the California Office of the Attorney General. Manian's research interests focus on constitutional law, gender equality, and reproductive justice.

Education

BA, University of Michigan
JD, Harvard University

Scholarship

Professor Manian's SSRN Author Page

Articles

"Rights, Remedies and Facial Challenges," 36 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 611 (2009). [SSRN]

"The Irrational Woman: Informed Consent and Abortion Decision-Making," 16 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 223 (2009). [SSRN]

"Privatizing Bans on Abortion: Eviscerating Constitutional Rights Through Tort Remedies," 80 Temple Law Review 123 (2007). [SSRN]

"Developments in the Law — Alternatives to Incarceration: Introduction," 111 Harvard Law Review 1863 (1998) (co-author).

"Speech Restrictions — Floating Buffer Zones — Schenck v. Pro-Choice Network," 111 Harvard Law Review 339 (1997).

Book Review: "Rethinking Rape: Date Rape: Feminism, Philosophy And The Law," 20 Harvard Women’s Law Journal 333 (1997).

"Developments in the Law — The Civil Jury: Jury Selection and Composition," 110 Harvard Law Review 1443 (1997).

Other Publications

"Proposition 4: Constitutional Amendments for Sale," RH Reality Check, (Nov. 3, 2008).

"The War Powers Resolution -- A Collective Judgment of One?, USF Lawyer (Spring/Summer 2007).

"Gonzales v. Carhart: A Threat to Women's Health and Reproductive Freedom," California Women Lawyers Newsletter (Summer 2007) (co-authored with Jennifer Templeton Dunn).

Presentations

"The Shifting Face of Facial Challenges," University of San Francisco School of Law Faculty Teaching and Scholarship Workshop (April 14, 2009).

"Informed Consent and Abortion Decision-Making after Gonzales v. Carhart," Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities Twelfth Annual Conference, Suffolk University School of Law, Boston (April 3, 2009)

"The Irrational Woman: Informed Consent and Abortion Decision-Making," Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy Public Health Symposium, "The Symptoms of Public Health Policy: Invisible Injuries, the Gendered Body and the Law," Duke University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina (February 2009).

"Rights, Remedies and Facial Challenges," Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly Symposium, University of California Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, California (February 2009).

"The Future of the Federal Courts and FOCA Under the Obama Administration," Abortion Seminar, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, University of California, San Francisco (January 2009).

Panelist, "The Future of the Supreme Court," University of San Francisco School of Law (October 2008).

"Informed Consent and Abortion Decision-Making After Gonzales v. Carhart," University of San Francisco School of Law Faculty Teaching and Scholarship Workshop (October 2008).

"The Irrational Woman: Informed Consent and Abortion Decision-Making After Gonzales v. Carhart," LatCrit XIII Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington (October 2008).

Panelist, “Gender, Reproduction, and the U.S. Supreme Court,” 81st Annual Meeting of the State Bar of California, Monterey, California (September 2008).

"Capacity and Consent After Gonzales v. Carhart," Abortion Seminar, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, University of California, San Francisco (May 2008).

"Informed Consent and Women's Reproductive Autonomy," Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Montreal (May 2008).

"The Legal Implications of Gonzales v. Carhart," Abortion Seminar, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, University of California, San Francisco (May 2007).

"Privatizing the War on Abortion: Evading Constitutional Rights Through Tort Remedies," University of San Francisco School of Law Faculty Teaching and Scholarship Workshop (October 2006).

"Fundamental Rights and Self-Enforcing Tort Legislation: Piercing the Veil of Private Rights of Action," Law and Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore (July 2006).

Chair/Discussant, "Following Marriage" panel, Law and Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore (July 2006).

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