University of Wisconsin, B.A.
Boston College Law School, J.D.
University of Wisconsin, LL.M.
Michele Goodwin is the Everett Fraser Professor in Law at the University of Minnesota. She holds joint appointments at the University of Minnesota Medical School and the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Professor Goodwin served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago and as a Visiting Scholar at the University of California-Berkeley. Prior to law teaching, Goodwin was a Gilder-Lehrman Post-Doctoral Fellow at Yale University.
Professor Goodwin is the founder of the Institute for Global Child Advocacy and the Executive Director of the U.S. Chapter of the Defense of Children International. She serves as Chair of the AALS Committee to Review Scholarly Papers for the AALS Annual Meeting (2011-2013) and Chair of the AALS Biolaw Section (2012-13). She is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Law and Social Inquiry. In addition, she is a founding peer reviewer for the Harvard/Stanford/Duke Journal of Law and the Biosciences, and a reviewer for Cambridge University Press, New York University Press, the Journal of Population Economics, Law and Society Review, Law and Politics Review, and the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics. Goodwin is also a blogger for the Harvard Bill of Health.
Goodwin's research concerns the role of law in the promotion and regulation of medicine, science, and biotechnology. She researches and teaches in the areas of torts, constitutional law, property, biotechnology, bioethics, and cultural politics. She is a prolific author and internationally renowned scholar. Her scholarship defines new ways of thinking about supply, demand, and access to sophisticated medical technologies, including in organ transplantation, and assisted reproductive technology. Reviews of her work appear in the New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, Publisher's Weekly, Law and Politics Book Review, Book News, and the Library Journal, amongst other periodicals. Her editorials and commentaries appear in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Gene Watch, Christian Science Monitor, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Houston Chronicle, Chicago Sun Times, Washington Post, and Forbes Magazine. She is a columnist for the Conversation Section of the Chronicle of Higher Education Magazine.
Professor Goodwin is the author/editor of several books, including Black Markets: The Supply and Demand of Human Body Parts (Cambridge University Press, 2006); Baby Markets (Cambridge University Press, 2009); The Black Body: Reading, (Re)Writing, and (Re) Imagining (University of South Africa Press, Jackson, Demissie, and Goodwin, 2009); Regulating Contestable Commodities in the Global Body Market: Altruism's Limits (Cambridge University Press 2013); and Policing The Womb (Cambridge University Press 2013).
Her 2013 articles will appear in the Wisconsin Law Review, the Illinois Law Review,Indiana Law Journal and the California Law Circuit among others. Goodwin's prior scholarship appears in the Michigan Law Review, George Washington Law Review, Emory Law Review, Alabama Law Review, Duke Journal of Law and Contemporary Problems, the Journal of Social Research, as well as specialty journals published at Harvard, the University of Virginia, Barnard and others.
Professor Goodwin is the recipient of numerous awards recognizing her contributions to the legal academy, including the Faculty Achievement Award, the Outstanding Scholarship Award, The Black Pearl Award, The Urban League Women's History Month Honor, and the Chicago History Museum's Pioneering Women Award, among others. Governor Paul Patton commissioned her a colonel in 2001.
Biotechnology, Bioethics & the Law (LexisNexis, forthcoming 2013) (casebook)
Policing The Womb:The New Cultural Politics of Reproduction (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2013)
The Global Body Market: Altruism's Limits (Cambridge University Press, 2013) (editor)
Baby Markets: Money and the New Politics of Creating Families (Cambridge University Press, 2010) (editor)
Imagining, Writing, (Re)Reading the Black Body (University of South Africa Press, 2009) (co-editor with Sandra Jackson & Fassil Demissie)
Black Markets: The Supply and Demand of Body Parts (Cambridge University Press, 2006) (reviewed by New Engl. J. of Med., Nature, Publishers Weekly, Law & Pol. Book Rev., Sci Tech. Book News, Library J., J. of Politics, Transfusion, Donna Shalala, Richard Epstein, Jesse Jackson, and Lori Andrews) (translated into Portuguese, 2008)
Book Chapters
Health Law: Cognitive Bias in Medical Decision-Making, in Implicit Racial Bias Across the Law (Justin D. Levinson & Roger J. Smith, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2012) (with Naomi Duke)
Newman v. Sathyavaglswaran: Unbundling Property in the Dead, in Health Law and Biothics: Cases in Context (Sandra H. Johnson, Joan H. Krause, Richard S. Saver & Robin Fretwell Wilson, eds., Aspen Publishers, 2009)
Rethinking Federal Organ Transplantation
Policy: Incentives Best Implemented
by State Governments, in When Altruism Isn't Enough: The Case for Compensating Kidney Donors (Sally Satal, ed., AEI Press, 2009)
The Black Body as Medical Commerce, in Imagining, Writing, (Re)Reading the Black Body (Sandra Jackson, Fassil Demissie & Michele Goodwin, eds., University of South Africa Press, 2009)
Some Rap and Hip-hop Music Promotes Sexual Violence, in Sexual Violence (Louise I. Gerdes, ed., Greenhaven Press, 2008)
Bioethical Entanglements of Race, Religion, and AIDS, in Handbook of Bioethics and Religion (David Guinn, ed., Oxford University Press, 2006)
Tissue Banking: Disclosure, Informed Consent, and the Rule of Law, in Contemporary Issues in Business Ethics: The Callista Wicklander Lectures, DePaul University, 1991-2005 (Keith W. Krasemann & Patricia Hogue Werhane, eds., University Press of America, 2006)
Assisted Reproductive Technology and Other Reproductive Health Issues, in Illinois Jurisprudence (vol. 27, Health Care Law, LexisNexis, 2005)
Organ Donation, in Illinois Jurisprudence (vol. 27, Health Care Law, LexisNexis, 2005)
Gender, Race, and Mental Illness: The Case of Wanda Jean Allen, in Critical Race Feminism: A Reader (Adrien Katherine Wing, ed., New York University Press, 2d ed., 2003)
Journal Articles
When Institutions Fail: The Case of Underage Marriage in India, 62 DePaul Law Review 357 (2013)
Capacity and Autonomy: A Thought Experiment on Minors' Access to Assisted Reproductive Technology, 34 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 503 (2011) (with Naomi Duke)
Confronting the Limits of Altruism: A Response to Jake Linford, 2 St. Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy 327 (2009) (solicited response to former student)
Expressive Minimalism and Fuzzy Signals: The Judiciary and the Role of Law, 84 Chicago Kent Law Review 19 (2009) (invited symposium, Lori Andrews, Michael Creighton, et al.)
Patient Negligence, 72:4 Law and Contemporary Problems 223 (Fall 2009) (invited paper; symposium with Erwin Chemerinsky, Trina Jones, Gary Orfield, Angela Harris, et al.) (with L. Song Richardson)
Relational Markets in Intimate Goods, 44 Tulsa Law Review 803 (2009) (Scholarship Symposium honoring Professor Richard A. Epstein) (invited by Richard Epstein)
Rethinking Colorblind State Action: A Thought Experiment on Racial Preferences, 72:4 Law and Contemporary Problems 251 (Fall 2009) (with Nevin Gewertz)
Prosecuting the Womb, 76 George Washington Law Review 1657 (2008), reprinted in Women and the Law (University Casebook series, Foundation Press, 4th ed., 2008)
Private Ordering and Intimate Spaces: Why the Ability to Negotiate Is Non-Negotiable, 105 Michigan Law Review 1367 (2007) (reviewing Mark J. Cherry, Kidney For Sale By Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market (Georgetown University Press, 2005)
Has the Emphasis on Autonomy Gone Too Far: Insights from Dostoevsky on Parental Decision Making in the NICU, 15 Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 147-151 (2006) (with John Paris, Neil Graham & Michael D. Schrieber)
Altruism's Limits: Law, Capacity, and Organ Commodification, 56 Rutgers Law Review 305 (2004) (lead article), excerpts reprinted in Janet L. Dolgin & Lois L. Shepherd, Bioethics and the Law (Aspen, 2005)
Locating Women in Law and Psychiatry, 26 International Journal of Law & Psychiatry 447 (2003) (guest editor of special issue on women) (lead editorial)
The Economy of Citizenship, 76 Temple Law Review 129 (2003) (lead article)
Sex, Theory, & Practice: Reconciling Davis v. Monroe & the Harms Caused by Children, 51 DePaul Law Review 805 (2002) (cited by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Gabrielle M. v. Park Forest-Chicago Heights, 315 F.3d 817 (2003))
Deconstructing Legislative Consent Law: Organ Taking, Racial Profiling & Distributive Justice, 6 Virginia Journal of Law & Technology 2 (2001), reprinted in 5 DePaul Journal of Health Care Law 257 (2002)
Book Review, 8 American Journal of Biothics 52 (Nov. 2008) (reviewing African American Bioethics: Culture, Race, and Identity (Lawrence Prograis, Jr. & Edmund Pellegrino, eds., Georgetown University Press, 2007)) (invited book review)
Over Our Dead Bodies, 198 New Scientist 50 (May 10, 2008) (reviewing Donna Dickenson, Body Shopping: The Economy Fuelled by Flesh and Blood (Oneworld Publications, 2008))
Book Review, 14 Law and Politics Book Review 1 (Jan. 2004) (reviewing Susan M. Behuniak & Arthur G. Svenson, Physician-Assisted Suicide: The Anatomy of a Constitutional Law Issue (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003))
Book Review, 12 Law and Politics Book Review (Feb. 2002) (reviewing Jerry Menikoff, Law and Bioethics: An Introduction (Georgetown University Press, 2001))
Disentangling Fact from Fiction: The Realities of Unequal Health Treatment, 9 DePaul Journal of Health Care Law (2006) (symposium issue) (Convened symposium,recruited scholars, advised editors, and consulted with writers; Authors include Timothy Jost, Camille Nelson, Kevin Outerson, Lisa Ikemoto, Ruqaiijah Yearby, Michael Malinowski, Dayna Matthew and Nanette Elster)
Precious Commodities: The Supply & Demand of Body Parts, 55:3 DePaul Law Review 793-1066 (Spring 2006) (symposium issue) (Convened symposium, recruited scholars, coordinated
panels, and advised/supervised journal editorial staff; Authors included Michelle Oberman, David Kaserman, Raymond Pollock, Lloyd Cohen, Robert Katz, and Thomas Peterson)
Maternal Fetal Conflict: Pregnancy, Domestic Violence & the Law, 8:2 DePaul Journal of Health Care Law 365-518 (2005) (special issue with the American Medical Association) (Recruited writers, initiated collaboration with the AMA, and advised/supervised journal editorial staff; Authors include Lynn Paltrow, Dr. Linda Saltzman, and Health Law Scholars: Katy Sikich, and Kimberly Horn)
Race as Proxy in Law and Society: Emerging Issues in Race and the Law, 53:3 DePaul Law Review 929-1246 (Spring 2004) (symposium issue) (Recruited scholars, wrote grants, and collaborated/advised student editors; Contributing authors included Blake Morant, Alfred Brophy, Anthony Farley, Penelope Andrews, Deseerie Kennedy, and Rene
Bowser)
Locating Women in Law and Psychiatry, 26 International Journal of Law & Psychiatry 447-582 (2003) (Guest editor and organizer of first ever special edition on women) (Contributing authors include Cynthia Grant Bowman, Michelle Oberman, Fiona Raitt, and Patricia Peppin)
Entries in Reference Works
Citizenship and Race, in Encyclopedia of Race and Racism (John H. Moore, editor-in-chief, Macmillan Reference USA/Thomson Gale, 2008)
Editorials, Commentary & Letters
Law Professors See the Damage Done by "No Child Left Behind," Chronicle of Higher Education, Mar. 12, 2013
'Legitimate Rape'--a Dangerous Fallacy, Chronicle of Higher Education, Aug. 21, 2012
It Takes A Cooperative to Raise a Child, Chronicle of Higher Education, Aug. 3, 2012
Hope Emerging From Despair: HIV/AIDS in South Africa, Chronicle of Higher Education, July 30, 2012
2 Lessons From the Penn State Scandal, Chronicle of Higher Education, July 20, 2012
A Victory for John Roberts, Chronicle of Higher Education, June 28, 2012
Rethinking the Bush Legacy, Chronicle of Higher Education, June 28, 2012
Hating the Obamas, Chronicle of Higher Education, June 6, 2012
Stalking Patients at Hospitals, Chronicle of Higher Education, May 23, 2012
Elizabeth Warren, Scott Brown, and Race Card Politics, Chronicle of Higher Education, May 3, 2012
Why Can't We All Just Get Along?, Chronicle of Higher Education, May 1, 2012
Stand Your Own Ground--Through a Racial Kaleidoscope, Chronicle of Higher Education, Apr. 21, 2012
"I Didn't Know She Was A Prostitute!", Chronicle of Higher Education, Apr. 20, 2012
Police and Prosecutorial Discretion, Chronicle of Higher Education, Mar. 29, 2012
Walking While Black, Chronicle of Higher Education, Mar. 23, 2012
The Death of Affirmative Action, Part 2: Education as a Finite Resource, Chronicle of Higher Education, Mar. 21, 2012
The Death of Affirmative Action, Part 1, Chronicle of Higher Education, Mar. 15, 2012
The Boycott of Rush Limbaugh, Chronicle of Higher Education, Mar. 6, 2012
Goodbye, Anthony Shadid..., Chronicle of Higher Education, Feb. 17, 2012
The Male Chromosome, Chronicle of Higher Education, Feb. 3, 2012
Defining Sexual Harassment, Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan. 30, 2012
Joe Paterno Has Died, Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan. 22, 2012
Transplant Rules Are Out of Touch With Reality, Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan. 22, 2012
Too Disabled for an Organ Transplant?, Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan. 20, 2012
Rereading Jane Eyre, Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan. 17, 2012
Can a Woman Become President of the United States?, Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan. 4, 2012
Prediction for 2012: Continued U.S. Decline in Education, Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan. 2, 2012
What's a Baby Worth?, Chronicle of Higher Education, Dec. 28, 2011
Stomping on Women in the Streets ... Signs of a New Democracy?, Chronicle of Higher Education, Dec. 22, 2011
When the Elves Are Women--and the Boys Play Santa Claus, Chronicle of Higher Education, Dec. 16, 2011
Law Schools' Failure To Prepare Students... It's Complicated, Chronicle of Higher Education, Dec. 13, 2011
Jerry Sandusky Arrested Again As A Weak Defense Strategy Emerges, Chronicle of Higher Education, Dec. 8, 2011
Another University Coach Is Fired On Sex-Abuse Charges, Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 28, 2011
Immolation, Stoning, Imprisonment, or Marrying Your Rapist, Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 27, 2011
Jerry Sandusky Regrets Showering With Boys... Really?, Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 17, 2011
Sex Abuse Allegation at the Citadel, Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 15, 2011
Why Riot?, Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 11, 2011
Paterno and Spanier Out, But Tragedy Remains at Penn State, Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 10, 2011
Joe Paterno May Soon Be Gone, Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 8, 2011
What Are Penn State's Priorities?, Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 6, 2011
Where Are You From?, Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 5, 2011
The 'F' Word, Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 1, 2011
A New Week in Libya, but a Bumpy Road Ahead, Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 25, 2011
Shame on The NY Times and Maybe Your Newspaper Too..., Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 12, 2011
Beating Women Drivers in Saudi Arabia: When the Culture Excuse Fails, Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept. 30, 2011
Maybe It's Easier For Law Profs to Become Senators Than Judges?, Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept. 15, 2011
A Tale of Two Birth Wards, Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept. 7, 2011
Paying for Fraud, Abuse, and Extortion as the Cost of War, Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept. 6, 2011
Gaddafi Falls, but Will Poor Governance Persist?, Chronicle of Higher Education, Aug. 25, 2011
Is Health-Care Reform Dead?, Chronicle of Higher Education, Aug. 15, 2011
Can't Blame Colonialism for Current Rapes in Congo, Chronicle of Higher Education, July 26, 2011
Who's Your Daddy, Chronicle of Higher Education, July 22, 2011
First Amendment Fundamentalism, Chronicle of Higher Education, July 2, 2011
'Little Janie Q' Meets the Roberts Court, Chronicle of Higher Education, June 22, 2011
Did He Really Sell a Kidney for an iPad?, Chronicle of Higher Education, June 6, 2011
Rape, Sexual Exploitation, and War, Chronicle of Higher Education, June 3, 2011
Until Deportation Do They Part..., Chronicle of Higher Education, May 28, 2011
The New Reproductive Frontier, Chronicle of Higher Education, May 23, 2011
A Return To Judging: Genetics and Biotechnologies in the Courts, 23 GeneWatch 28 (Oct.-Dec. 2010)
Medical Records & Privacy, presented to Subcommittee on Privacy and Confidentiality of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (read into the record on Privacy and Health Information Technology), Mar. 23, 2005
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