Professor Goodwin serves on the executive committee and national board of the American Civil Liberties Union. She has provided testimony to state and federal lawmakers and legislative committees and worked with state attorneys general or their staff on health-related matters in California, Illinois, Minnesota, and New York. Professor Goodwin has authored or co-authored amicus briefs submitted to the United States Supreme Court as well as the Second, Third, Sixth, and Ninth U.S. She later served as an assistant dean at the University of Wisconsin to help galvanize equity and inclusion efforts, followed by directing university programs and institutes. Following earning her juris doctorate, she moved south and guided one of the largest southern school districts in the United States through desegregation, equity and inclusion efforts across 52 K-12 schools, more than 35,000 students, with an operating budget exceeding $350 million. Professor Goodwin has long recognized the transformative power and value of education and access. A prolific author, Goodwin’s publications include six books and over 100 articles, essays, book chapters, and commentaries. She is host of the On the Issues with Michele Goodwin podcast at Ms. Magazine.
Professor Goodwin is a sought after public commentator and has been featured in print, radio, and television news, including Politico,, Forbes, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Chicago Sun-Times, Vox, Mother Jones ABC News NBC News NPR, HBO’s Vice News, and Ms. Her books include Policing The Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood (2020) Biotechnology, Bioethics, and The Law (2015) Baby Markets: Money and the Politics of Creating Families (2010) and Black Markets: The Supply and Demand of Body Parts (2006). Trained in sociology and anthropology, Professor Goodwin has conducted field research in Asia, Africa, Europe and North America, focusing on human trafficking (marriage, sex, organs, and other biologics). She ranks among the most cited professors in the field. Her health law scholarship is hailed as “exceptional” in the New England Journal of Medicine. She directed the first ABA accredited health law program in the nation and established the first law center focused on race and bioethics. She is credited with helping to establish and shape the health law field. Her scholarship has been referenced by national media, legislators, and civil society organizations. This dossier addresses legal questions related to freedom of speech religious exercise equal protection due process race and sex discrimination reproductive rights slavery and LGBTQ equality.
Professor Goodwin’s constitutional law scholarship appears in or is forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review, California Law Review, Chicago Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Michigan Law Review, New York University Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and Yale Law Journal, among others. She is an American Law Institute Adviser for the Restatement Third of Torts: Remedies. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute as well as an elected Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the Hastings Center (the organization central to the founding of bioethics).
She is also the first law professor at the University of California, Irvine to receive this award. She is the recipient of the 2020-21 Distinguished Senior Faculty Award for Research, the highest honor bestowed by the University of California. Michele Bratcher Goodwin is a Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Irvine and founding director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy.
Intellectual Property, Arts, and Technology Clinicĭirector, Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy Expertise:īioethics, Constitutional Law, Family Law, Health Law, Reproductive Rights, Torts Background:.Community and Economic Development Clinic.