Welcome to the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice. We are a multidisciplinary research center dedicated to issues of reproduction and designed to support law and policy solutions by bridging the academic-advocate divide.
Mission
The Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice at UC Berkeley School of Law (CRRJ) fuels law and policy solutions by connecting people and ideas across the academic-advocate divide. We seek to secure reproductive rights and advance reproductive justice by furthering research and scholarship, bolstering law and policy advocacy efforts, and shaping academic and public discourse.
As the first think tank of its kind, CRRJ serves as a resource, liaison, and partner to reproductive rights and justice organizations throughout the country. The Center provides a physical, intellectual, and virtual hub where advocates and scholars can cross-pollinate ideas, and collaborate on projects. Our programs nurture a new generation of leaders who can meet current crises in reproductive access and care, and cast wide influence over decisions, institutions, and systems for decades to come.
CRRJ Impact Report 2024 - 25
The Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice (CRRJ) at UC Berkeley Law has released its 2024-2025 Impact Report, “Connecting Movements: Building Power for Change,” which details its work in bridging academia and advocacy. The report highlights the Center’s commitment to an unapologetically intersectional agenda grounded in a Black queer feminist lens. CRRJ has focused on key priority areas, including the criminalization of bodily autonomy, ending unjust family separation, improving maternal and infant health for marginalized communities, and the intersection of democracy and reproductive rights.
The Center has accomplished this through a range of activities, such as convening hundreds of advocates and students, supporting movement partners, and engaging in rigorous research and scholarship. This work includes hosting intersectional courses and programming, convening interdisciplinary workshops and symposiums to build movement power, and engaging in advocacy, scholarship, and research to advance reproductive justice.