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. She was honored with a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Griffith University in Australia. Prior to law teaching, Goodwin was a Gilder-Lehrman post-doctoral fellow at Yale University.
Goodwin is a prolific author; her scholarship on organ transplant policy in the United States contributed to a renewed public agenda, and defined new ways of thinking about supply, demand, and access to sophisticated medical treatments. Her scholarship has helped to redefine how reproductive technology policy should be evaluated, urging a broader reconciliation of the legal treatments of women with differing social statuses. She is a leading voice in the debates on socioeconomics and race in medicine, having founded the first center for studying race and bioethics in the nation. Her writings on baby markets, judicial formalism, law and status, organ procurement, assisted reproduction, reproductive politics, family immunity in tort law, and patient negligence, appear in journals published by the University of Chicago, University of Michigan, George Washington University, Duke University, University of Virginia, University of Alabama, Barnard College, and many others.
She is the author of several books, including Black Markets: The Supply and Demand of Human Body Parts (Cambridge University Press, 2006)(Portuguese translation 2008); Baby Markets (Cambridge University Press, 2009); The Black Body: Reading, (Re)Writing, and (Re) Imagining (University of South Africa Press, Goodwin et. al, 2009); Biotechnology and Bioethics (Lexis/Nexis Goodwin & Paris, 2010).
Goodwin researches and teaches in the areas of torts, property, biotechnology, bioethics, and identity. 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 Time, Christian Science Monitor, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Houston Chronicle, Chicago Sun Times, Washington Post, and Forbes Magazine.
Professor Goodwin is the former Secretary General of the International Academy of Law & Mental Health, and currently serves as a Member of the Women’s Faculty Cabinet at the University of Minnesota. She is the Past Chair of the Section on Law, Medicine, and Health Care of the American Association of Law Schools. Professor Goodwin chairs the University of Minnesota Law School’s Entry Level Appointments Committee.
For several years prior to coming to the University of Minnesota, Goodwin directed an elite health law program, ranked among the "Top Ten" by U.S. News & World Reports.
She is the recipient of numerous awards recognizing her contributions to the legal academy, including the Faculty Achievement Award and the Outstanding Scholarship Award, The Black Pearl Award, The Urban League Women’s History Month Honoree, and the Chicago History Museum’s Pioneering Women Award, among others.
Baby Markets: Money and the New Politics of Creating Families (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2010) (editor)
Biotechnology, Bioethics & the Law: Regulations & Statutes (LexisNexis, forthcoming Spring 2010)
Biotechnology, Bioethics & the Law (LexisNexis, forthcoming Spring 2010) (casebook)
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
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 52 (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
A View from The Cradle: Tort Law and the Private Regulation of Assisted Reproductive Technology, __ Emory Law Journal __ (forthcoming 2010)
The Price of Conception, Scholar & Feminist Online (Barnard College) (forthcoming Spring 2010) (lead article with commentaries from other scholars)
Bio Law: A Few Thoughts about Altruism and Markets, 18 Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy 208 (2009)
Colorblind State Action and the Limits of Racial Preference, 72 Law and Contemporary Problems __ (forthcoming 2009) (with Nevin Gewertz)
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)
Empires of The Flesh: Organ and Tissue Taboos, __ Alabama Law Review __ (forthcoming 2009)
Expressive Minimalism and Fuzzy Signals: The Judiciary and the Role of Law, 84 Chicago Kent Law Review __ (forthcoming 2009) (invited symposium, Lori Andrews, Michael Creighton, et al.)
Patient Negligence: Retooling the Role of Fault in Medical Disputes, 72 Law and Contemporary Problems __ (forthcoming 2009) (invited paper; symposium with Erwin Chemerinsky, Trina Jones, Gary Orfield, Angela Harris, et al.)
Relational Markets in Intimate Goods, 44 Tulsa Law Review __ (forthcoming 2009) (Scholarship Symposium honoring Professor Richard A. Epstein) (invited by Richard Epstein)
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)
The Free-Market Approach to Adoption: The Value of a Baby, 26 Boston College Third World Law Journal 61 (2006)
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
A National Conversation about Race and Class, but the Women Are Uninvited, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Aug. 1, 2009
Reflections on Race: Four Writers Share Their Views, Christian Science Monitor, July 30, 2009 (with Sara Libby, Daisy Hernandez & Lawrence Harrison)
The Organ Donor Taboo, Forbes Magazine, Oct. 15, 2007, at 32
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
