Michele B. GoodwinEverett Fraser Professor of LawUniversity of Wisconsin, B.A. Professor Michele Bratcher Goodwin joins the University of Minnesota Law School as the Everett Fraser Professor of Law. She holds joint appointments in the Medical School and the School of Public Health. During 2007-08, she will be a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School, where she will edit her forthcoming book, Baby Markets. She will also serve as one of the distinguished Meador Lecturers at the University of Alabama during the 2007-08 academic year. Professor Goodwin began her teaching career in 2001 at DePaul University College of Law, where she held the Wicklander Chair in Ethics and was a professor of law. She directed the Health Law Institute and founded the Center for the Study of Race & Bioethics. At DePaul, she earned the Faculty Achievement Award, Outstanding Scholarship Award, the Humanities Fellowship, and was honored by the university president who selected her book as one of the two top publications of 2006. Prior to law teaching, Professor Goodwin was a Gilder-Lehrman post-doctoral fellow at Yale University. Shortly after beginning teaching, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Law & Society at the University of California Law School. At both institutions, Professor Goodwin continued her research on property, ownership, and identity in the human body. Her recent book, Black Markets: The Supply & Demand of Body Parts, (Cambridge University Press, 2006), builds upon a career of scholarship exploring causes for organ shortages and methods to remedy that policy conundrum. Her scholarship debates the significance of moral, ethical, and legal norms in transactions involving the human body. She is also interested in questions involving social understandings of citizenship. Professor Goodwin's scholarship has been cited by the Seventh Circuit, and she has been interviewed by 60 Minutes, the Today Show, and local news networks, including ABC, NBC, and PBS. 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, Wisconsin State Journal, Milwaukee Journal, and other media venues. Past service awards include Woman of the Year by the Urban League and Pioneering Woman by the Chicago Historical Society. In 2003, she was elected Secretary General of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health. She is the Chair Elect of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Law, Medicine, and Health Care, and is a fellow of the Institute of Medicine of Chicago.
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