Prof. Goodwin’s Book, "Baby Markets: Money and The New Politics of Creating Families" Released

Professor Michele Bratcher Goodwin’s latest book, Baby Markets: Money and The New Politics of Creating Families (Cambridge University Press, Goodwin ed., 2010), has just been released. Scholars from across the country have raved about this publication. Steve P. Calandrillo, Charles I. Stone Professor of Law at the University of Washington School of Law calls Baby Markets a “. . . groundbreaking, must-read in today’s growing era of adoption, surrogacy, and ‘non-traditional’ families. . . . [that] will be increasingly and directly relevant in public policy decision-making and legal jurisprudence.” Imani Perry, Professor at Princeton University’s Center for African American Studies, calls the book a “provocative and far reaching exploration.” Eric A. Feldman, Deputy Dean for International Affairs and Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, says that Baby Markets is “[u]nafraid to ask hard questions and challenge fundamental assumptions . . . . [and provides] brilliant and provocative [insights].” Baby Markets has been deemed “cutting-edge” by Dorothy Roberts, Professor at Northwestern University Law School and author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty, and “indispensible reading” by Rick Banks, Jackson Eli Reynolds, Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. Diane L. Redleaf, Executive Director of the Family Defense Center in Chicago, commented that “Michele Goodwin has done a masterful job of weaving together a wide range of contrasting points of view in law, policy, economics, and philosophy on the timely topic of Baby Markets . . . .”