Michele Goodwin
Visiting Professor of Law
1111 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
phone: 773.702.9566
email: goodwin@uchicago.edu

Michele Bratcher Goodwin joins the University of Chicago for 2007-08 as Visiting Professor at the Law School. Goodwin is the Everett Fraser Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota.  She also holds joint appointments in the Medical School and School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota.

Her forthcoming book, Baby Markets, builds upon a distinguished body of scholarship debating the significance of moral, ethical, and legal norms in transactions involving the human body.  Goodwin's recent book, Black Markets: The Supply & Demand of Body Parts (Cambridge University Press, 2006), explores causes for organ shortages and methods to remedy that policy challenge.  In particular, she is interested in exploring how property, tort, and contract theories engage with the human body and shape judicial and legislative law/rule making and deliberation.  Goodwin's other forthcoming projects critique private versus public speech, political correctness, and citizenship.

Professor Goodwin is the former Wicklander Chair in Ethics and Professor of Law at DePaul University, where she directed the Health Law Institute. Prior to law teaching, Goodwin was a Gilder-Lehrman post-doctoral fellow at Yale University.  She has also been a visiting scholar at the University of California Law School's Center for Law and Society.

Professor Goodwin's scholarship has been cited by the Seventh Circuit, and she has been interviewed by 60 Minutes, the BBC, the Today Show, and other news networks. Her opinion editorials and comments have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, New York Times, Houston Chronicle, Christian Science Monitor, New Zealand Herald, and other media venues. She is the Chair Elect of the American Association of Law Schools section on law and medicine, and is a fellow of the Institute of Medicine of Chicago. She has taught Torts; Biotechnology & The Law; Health Law Policy; Race, Law & Medicine; Mental Health Law; Health Law Regulations; Legal Ethics; and Education Law.