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

Books

Black Markets: The Supply & Demand of Body Parts (Cambridge University Press 2006).

Biotechnology, Bioethics & The Law (casebook with Lexis/Nexis Publishers forthcoming 2008).

Biotechnology, Bioethics & The Law: Regulations & Statutes (Lexis/Nexis Publishers forthcoming 2008)

The Black Body, Goodwin, Jackson, Demissie, ed. (University of S. Africa Press forthcoming 2008)

Edited Journal Editions

"Precious Commodities: The Supply & Demand of Body Parts," DePaul Law Review (2006).

"Disentangling Fact From Fiction: The Realities of Unequal Health Treatment," Journal of Health Care Law (2006).

"Maternal Fetal Conflict: Pregnancy, Domestic Violence & The Law," Journal of Health Care Law (2005).

"Race As Proxy" Law & Society (2004).

"Locating Women in Law and Psychiatry," 26 International Journal pf Law & Psychcology 447 (2003).

Articles

"Biotechnology’s New Empire," Alabama Law Review (forthcoming 2008).

"Wombs That Matter: Policing Women and Reproductive Possibilities," George Washington Law Review (forthcoming 2008).

"The Body Market: Private Ordering and Race Card Politics in the Acquisition and Distribution of Biological Resources," Arizona Law Review (forthcoming 2007).
"Private Ordering and Intimate Spaces : Why The Ability To Negotiate Intimate Spaces Is Non Negotiable," 105 Michigan Law Review 1376 (2007).

"Formalism and the Legal Status of Body Parts" 2006 University of Chicago Legal Forum 317 (2006).

"The Free Market Approach To Adoption: The Value Of A Baby" 26 Boston College Third World Law Journal 1 (2006).

"Has The Emphasis On Autonomy Gone Too Far: Insights From Dostoevsky on Parental Decision Making In The NICU," 15 Cambridge Quarterly 147-151 (2006) (with John Paris, Neil Graham, and Michael D. Schrieber).

"Assisted Reproductive Technology and The Double Bind: The Choice of Motherhood," 9 Iowa Journal of Justice, Race & Gender 1 (2005).

"Altruism’s Limits: Law, Capacity & Organ Commodification," 56 Rutgers Law Review 305 (2004) (excerpts reprinted in Bioethics and the Law, Doglin and Sheperd ed. [2005] ).

"The Economy of Citizenship," 76 Temple University Law Review 129 (2003).

"Locating Women in Law and Psychiatry," 26 International Journal of Law & Psychcology 447 (2003).

"Sex, Theory & Practice: Reconciling Davis v. Monroe," 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 Journal of Health Care Law 257).

"The Black Woman In The Attic: Law, Metaphor & Literature," 30 Rutgers Law Journal 597 (1999).

Book Chapters

"Toward Clarity: Federalism and Organ Transplantation," in When Altruism Isn’t Enough, Sally Satal, ed. (AEI forthcoming 2007-08).

"Citizenship," in Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, Moore, Nunn, Banks, et al, ed. (Macmillan Press 2008).

"Bioethical Entanglements of Race, Religion & AIDS," in Religion and Bioethics, David Guinn, ed. (Oxford 2006).

"Tissue Banking: Disclosure, Informed Consent, And The Rule Of Law," in The Wicklander Lectures, Warhane and Krasemann, ed. (University Press of America 2006).

"Illinois Regulation of Assisted Reproductive Rights," in Illinois Jurisprudence, Volume 27 Health Care Law (2005).

"Illinois Regulation of Organ Transplantation," in Illinois Jurisprudence, Volume 27 Health Care Law 2005)

"Gender, Race, & Mental Illness: The Case of Wanda Jean Allen," in Critical Race Feminism, 2nd edition (NYU Press 2003).

Short Book Reviews

"Physician-Assisted Suicide: The Anatomy of a Constitutional Law Issue, " 14 Law & Politics Book Review 1 (2004).

Other Articles, Essays, Introductions

"Prosecuting The Womb," 8 Journal of Health Care Law 361 (2006).

"Precious Commodities: An Introduction," 55 DePaul Law Review 793 (2006).

"Race & Urban Health: Confronting A New Frontier; An Introduction," 5 Journal of Health Care Law 181 (2002).

"Intellectual Integration in The Legal Academy," 7 Michigan J.R.L. 470 (2002).

Editorials, Commentaries
"Mr. Cosby Meet Rosa Parks," Washington Post A12 (August 14, 2006).

"Take The Debate Over Degrading Rap Videos Off Mute," Christian Science Monitor 9 (August 11, 2006).

"Make Trade In Body Parts Safer," The New Zealand Herald, July 5, 2006.

"Horror of Stolen Body Parts For Implants Is World Wide," Canberra Times (June 29, 2006).

"Organ Donors, For Love and Money" New York Times (May 19, 2006).

"Commerce in Cadavers is An Open Secret," Los Angeles Times B15 (March 11, 2004) (Reprinted in the Houston Chronicle and the Wisconsin Sentinel).

"The World Lott Spoke Of," Chicago Sun Times, (December 25, 2004).

Testimony

Medical Records & Privacy, presented to Subcommittee on Privacy of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (read into the record on Privacy and Health Information Technology) March 23, 2005.

Presentations

American Association of Law Schools, New York, NY, January 4, 2008
Why Newman Was Right and Moore Was Wrong

Meador Lecturer, University of Alabama, Oct. 2007
Biotechnology’s New Empire

George Washington Law School, Washington, DC, Oct. 2007
Policing The Womb: Reproduction, Access, and Thoughts on Eugenics

Law & Society Association, Berlin, Germany, July 24, 2007
What is Flesh?

American Society For Law, Medicine & Ethics, Boston, MA,, June 1, 2007
Plenary Speaker: Teaching Health Law


Chicago Kent Law School, Chicago, Illinois, May 20, 2007
Who Owns The Body

Illinois Humanities Council, Chicago, Illinois, May 23, 2007
Genetic Privacy & Race

Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, April 19, 2007
Key Note Lecture

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., March 9, 2007
Testing The Limits of Civil Liability for Wrongful Usage of Body Parts (Closing Key Note Lecture)

Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Mass., February 28, 2007
Private Ordering and The Negotiation For Body Parts: Does Race Really Matter? (invited lecture)

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C., February 13, 2007
Intimacy and Private Ordering (invited lecture)

American Association of Law Schools, Washington, D.C., January 3-7, 2007
Private Ordering and Social Justice (invited lecture)

Duke University Law School, Durham, N.C., October 16, 2006
Why The Ability To Negotiate Is Non-Negotiable (invited workshop)

Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Mass.., Oct. 14, 2006
The Legal Status of Stem Cells (invited lecture)

University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, Minn., October 11, 2006
Private Ordering and Social Justice (invited workshop)

World Congress on Law and Medicine, Toulouse, France, August 8, 2006
Patients’ Rights: A Real or Illusory Concept?

Feminist Association of bioethics congress, Beijing, Vhina August 4, 2006
Panel Convener: Law and Politics of Reproduction: Race, Culture, and Economics

Law and Society Summer Institute, Johannesburg, SA, July 20, 2006
Regulating Organ Markets (invited faculty)

American enterprise Institute, Washington, DC, June 12, 2006
Buy or Die Symposium: Redefining The Debate On Incentives In Organ Procurement (invited participant)

30th Annual Health Law Teachers’ Conference, Baltimore, MD June 3, 2006
ART & The Doublebind: The Illusory Choice of Motherhood

Harvard University, Cambridge, M.A., March 10-12, 2006
European Law Research Center, Conference Moderator and Speaker on Contracts & Commodities (invited lecture)

Hastings Law School, San Francisco, C.A., March 1, 2006
The Color of Consent & The Use of Vulnerable Participants in Foreign Clinical Trials (invited lecture)

Feminist Legal Theory Workshop, Atlanta, Georgia, January 27-28, 2006
Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis: The New Eugenics or Parental Responsibility? Race, Class, and the Aesthetic of Choice

American Association of Law Schools, Washington, D.C., January 4, 2006
Commentator, Race, Markets and the Future of Pharmaceutical Development Section Panel (invited participant)

Georgetown University Law School, Washington, D.C., January 3, 2006
The Body as The Commodity (invited speaker)(sponsored by Socio-Economics and The Law Section of AALS)

American Society of Criminology, Toronto, Canada, November 17, 2005
Homicide and the Inappropriate Use of Post-Operative Human Subjects (invited speaker)

University of Chicago Legal Forum, U. of Chicago, October 28, 2005
The Use of Takings Theory in the Settlement of Biotech Claims & Body Property Disputes (invited speaker)

Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, Chicago, September 6, 2005
Presumed Consent Laws & Homicide: Debating the Appropriate Use of Human Materials (invited lecturer)

World Congress on Law & Medicine, Seoul, Korea August 18, 2005
Reproductive Altruism

National Medical Association, New York, NY, July 27, 2005
Policing The Wombs of Undesirable Mothers (invited speaker)

American Constitutional Law Society, Chicago, IL, July 1, 2005
Supreme Court Update

American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Houston, Tex, June 3, 2005
Compelling Organ Donations from Children

National Hispanic Medical Association, Los Angeles, CA, April 2, 2005
Mandatory Medical Ethics & National Exam: What Can Be Learned From The Legal Model?

Boston College Law School, Newton, MA, March 11, 2005
Invited commentator on panel honoring Ruth Arlene Howe (invited speaker)
The Cost of A Baby

Jenner & Bloch, Chicago, IL, March 4,, 2005
Precious Commodities: The Supply & Demand of Body Parts (DePaul Law School Symposium)

University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL, February 23, 2005
The Slippery Slope of Raced Based Drugs (invited speaker of the ACS)

Washington & Lee Law School, Lexington, VA February 21, 2005
Reproductive Altruism: Limiting Donative Transfers From Children (invited speaker)

University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 18-19, 2005
Natural Born Killers: Heart Disease and Obesity in African American Communities

American Association of Law Schools, San fransisco, CA, January 6, 2005
Clinical Trials in Africa: An International Perspective on Informed Consent

Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, Nov. 12, 2004
Moral Distress and the Role of Law in Biotech Advancement: How We Regulate Body Trading

7th World Congress on Bioethics, Sydney, Australia, Nov. 10, 2004
Robbing Peter to Supply Paul: The Inappropriate Use of Children in Compelled Organ Donation

American Medical Association, Chicago, IL, November 6, 2004
Domestic Violence and Fiduciary Responsibilities: The Entanglements of Law, Medicine & Social Policy

Kellstadt School of Business, Chicago, IL, October 21, 2004
11h Annual International Business Ethics Conference (invited speaker)
The Ethics of Body Trading: Creating a Normative Discourse on the Role of Law in Biotech Advancement

University of Iowa Law School, Iowa City, IA, October 8, 2004
Assisted Reproductive Technology and Fiduciary Neglect (invited speaker)

European Critical Legal Studies Conference, London, England, September 3, 2004
Black Markets: The Supply and Demand of Body Parts (Keynote lecturer)

15th World Congress on Medical Law, Sydney, Australia, August 4, 2004
Reproductive Altruism: Nuances, Judicial Authority & Harms Posed to Children

American Constitutional Law Society, Chicago, IL, July 7, 2004
2003-2004 Supreme Court Review (Invited Speaker on the Alien Torts Claim Act)

Law & Society Meeting, Chicago, IL, May 27, 2004
Altruism’s Limits: The Tyranny of the Living Gift

Harvard Civil Rights Project, Cambridge, MA, May 18, 2004
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care Treatment (Invited Roundtable Participant)


University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, October 7, 2003
School of Pharmacy Keynote Speaker: Racial &Ethnic Disparities in Organ Transplantation

University of Iowa Law School, Iowa City, IA, October 3, 2003
Disparate Treatment: Race and Maternal Drug Usage (invited speaker)

Michigan State Law School, Detroit, Michigan, October 10, 2003
International Clinical Trials and the Alien Torts Claim Act (invited speaker)

International Congress on Law & Mental Health, Sydney, Australia, September 30, 2003
Plenary: Towards Inclusive Health Care Policies in a Changing World (Discussant)

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI April 26, 2003
The “Feeble Woman” and Reproductive Discrimination (invited speaker)

American University Law School, Washington, D.C., April 10-12, 2003
Using Civil Rights Legislation To Remedy Tissue Stealing

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, March 15,2003
Peer Sexual Harassment in the Public School Setting (invited speaker to the Conference on Public Service)

State Historical Society, Chicago, Illinois, March 12, 2003
Honored recipient of Trail Blazing Women Award and panelist on women, work and family

Washington & Lee Law School, Lexington, VA, January 31, 2003
Altruism’s Limits: Organ Demand, Race & Politics (invited panelist)

American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Indianapolis, IN, June 6, 2002
Conducted workshop on drug technology and race, exploring whether race is a biological factor that alters the effectiveness of drug therapies.

Law & Society Association, Vancouver, Canada, May 30, 2002
Racial Profiling in Organ Transplantation

Montreal-Philippe Pinel Institute, Montreal, Quebec, April 4, 2002
Emerging Issues in Health Care Disparities

National Reparations Forum, Chicago, Illinois, March 23, 2002
Are Reparations A Remedy For Antebellum Health Care Atrocities?(invited panelist with Sen. Carol Mosley Braun and Professor Charles Ogletree)

Griffith University Law School, Brisbane, Australia, July 2001
Distinguished Visiting Professor. Lectured on presumed consent legislation and the health of African American and indigenous populations. Gave interview on the Australian Broadcasting Channel (ABC).

Int’l Congress on Law & Mental Health, Montreal, Canada, July 3, 2001
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Communities of Color

American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Boston, MA, June 1, 2001
Cultural Competency in Health Care Delivery (conducted workshop)

University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, Spring 2001
Invited lecturer and discussant to critique Louise White’s paper on religion, spirituality, and the body.

Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, MA, November 17, 2000
Invited to provide comment at the 2000 Harvard Civil Rights Project Symposium focusing on the over-identification of students of color in special education. Chaired a highly distinguished panel and presented qualitative data on equity issues in special education.

University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, October 2000
Invited to serve as keynote speaker sponsored by the University of Vienna, University of Vienna Medical School, and the local government to speak on the sex trafficking of women in Europe. My research concerned the trafficking of African women, and more specifically, the lack of media and legal attention regarding their plight.


European Critical Legal Studies Conference, Helsinki, Finland, September 15, 2000
Social Contract Theory and Human Body Part Supply

XXVth International Congress on Law & Mental Health, Sienna, Italy, July 12-15, 2000
Sex, Theory & Practice: Sexual Harassment in The Public School Setting

DePaul University (Symp. On Women & Religion), Chicago, IL September, 2000
Women, Mental Health & The Church

4th Congres International (Sur L’Enfant), Montreal, Quebec, October 1999 School Violence & Mental Health

Critical Legal Conference, London, England, September 1999
The Transformation of the Human Body: Religion, Ethics & Personhood

XXIVth Int’l Congress on Law & Mental Health , Toronto, Ontario, June 13-18, 1999
Unclaimed Faces of Mental Illness: Exploring the Intersections of Race, Gender and Class

Law & Society , Chicago, Illinois, May 27-30, 1999
Beyond Madness: Women, Sexuality & The Law.

Critical Legal Conference, Lancaster, England, September 1998
Law & Education: Ritalin—The New Drug of Choice?

XXIIIrd Int’l Congress on Law & Mental Health, Paris, France, June 28-July 3, 1998
The Parasitic Relationship Between Mental Health and Poverty: Love, Tragedy and Sex – Mental Illness and Madness in Jane Eyre

1998 Black Women’s Conference, U. of Kentucky, March 11, 1998
Affirmative Action and College Access (invited speaker)

3rd Annual MAPOCC Scholarship Conference, Rutgers Law School, January 31, 1998
Women In The Attic: Law, Literature and Mental Illness

Race & Whiteness Conference, U. of Kentucky, November 13-14, 1997
Racial Anxiety: Exploring the Myths and Realities Behind Liberal Racism

Critical Legal Conference, Dublin, Ireland, September 6, 1997

Race, Gender and Mental Illness in Literature: An Exploration of Victorian Era Scruples

Works in Progress

Baby Markets, editor (under negotiation with Cambridge University Press).

"Biotechnology & The Alien Torts Claim Act," (to be submitted Winter 2008).

"Baby Markets," Chapter in Baby Markets (Cambridge University Press).

"Abrogating Reason and The False Promise of Formalism in The Litigation of Body."

"Part Claims," Chapter in CATO Publication (CATO Press, 2007).