My student co-hosts sign off, bringing Season 6 to an official close. Never fear, I'll be back throughout 2026 with exciting bonus episodes.

My guest today is Diane Tober, an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama Department of Anthropology and Institute for Social Science Research. She is a medical anthropologist with a focus on biocultural aspects of health, gender and sexuality, the commodification of the body, science and technology studies, bioethics, and social and reproductive justice. She has been conducting research exploring egg donors’ decisions and experiences within the global market for human eggs since 2013. She joins us today to discuss her recent book, Eggonomics: The Global Market in Human Eggs and the Donors Who Supply Them (Routledge 2024). This episode is co-hosted by UVA Law 2Ls, Rachel Duffy and Rachel Greenbaum.

Show Notes

About Diane Tober

About Kim Krawiec

About Rachel Duffy

About Rachel Greenbaum

Diane Tober, Eggonomics: The Global Market in Human Eggs and the Donors Who Supply Them (Routledge 2024)

Kimberly D. Krawiec, Gametes: Commodification and The Fertility Industry, in Routledge Handbook of Commodification, Routledge, 278–289 (1 ed. 2023).

Krawiec, Kimberly D. "Markets, repugnance, and externalities." Journal of Institutional Economics 19.6 (2023): 944-955.

My guest today is Prabha Kotiswaran, a Professor of Law & Social Justice at King’s College London. Professor Kotiswaran’s main areas of research include criminal law, transnational criminal law, feminist legal studies and sociology of law.

She is the author of numerous books and articles, including Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor: Sex Work and the Law in India, published by Princeton University Press (2011), which won the SLSA-Hart Book Prize for Early Career Academics. She joins us today to discuss two recent articles, linked in the show notes below, on egg donation and surrogacy in India.

This episode is co-hosted by UVA Law 3Ls Gabriel Andrade and Buddy Palmer.

Show Notes

About Prabha Kotiswaran

About Kim Krawiec

About Gabriel Andrade

About Buddy Palmer

Madhusree Jana and Prabha Kotiswaran, Legal (Dis)Orders A Feminist Assessment of India’s Assisted Reproductive Technology and Surrogacy LawsLinks to an external site., Amicus Curiae, Series 2, Vol 6, No 2, 300-323 (2025)

Jana, M., & Kotiswaran, P., Reproductive resistance, law, and informality: a critique of the Indian Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act, 2021Links to an external site.. Journal of Gender Studies, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2025.2490844Links to an external site. (2025)

Prabha Kotiswaran, Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor: Sex Work and the Law in India, Princeton University Press (2011).

Kimberly D. Krawiec, “