Author

Michele Goodwin

Michele Bratcher Goodwin is a prolific thoughtleader, author, advocate and public commentator. Her research, scholarship and public commentary span constitutional law, women’s rights, domestic and international health policy, and biotechnology.

She holds the Linda D. & Timothy J. O’Neill chair in constitutional law and global health policy at Georgetown Law and serves as the faculty director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Her academic publications appear in the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Cornell Law Review, and NYU Law Review among others. She is the author of the award-winning book Policing The Womb: Invisible Women and The Criminalization of Motherhood. She is also the executive producer of Ms. Studios. In addition to Ms. magazine, Dr. Goodwin’s commentary can be read in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Nation, CNN, and the LA Times.

  • Doctor-Patient Relationship

    Black Women Can’t Breathe

    Racism in health care, expressed through implicit and explicit biases, is the ultimate form of suffocation.

    Black Women Can’t Breathe

    Woman holding sign that reads "I can't breathe."
  • Events

    Women, Girls, and Mass Incarceration: A Hidden Problem

    Ultimately, we must all recognize responsibility to overhaul our criminal justice system and the policies that drive it. The Drug War is a failed effort and the collateral consequences reach a level of absurdity, including…

    Women, Girls, and Mass Incarceration: A Hidden Problem

  • Health Law Policy

    Black Lives Matter To Human Research–Lessons From ‘On The Run’

    The problem here is not simply one for Goffman, who admitted in hindsight, “I’m glad that I learned what it feels like to want a man to die…to feel it in my bones, at an…

    Black Lives Matter To Human Research–Lessons From ‘On The Run’

  • Clinical Research

    Father Time… Do Men Also Have Reproductive Clocks?

    By Michele Goodwin For centuries, researchers have studied multiple aspects of women’s reproduction.  Research tells us when women are more likely to become pregnant, when infertility kicks in, and even offers significant insights into the…

    Father Time… Do Men Also Have Reproductive Clocks?

  • Data Privacy

    Ebola and Privacy

    By Michele Goodwin As the nation braces for possibly more Ebola cases, civil liberties should be considered, including patient privacy.  As news media feature headline-grabbing stories about quarantines,  let’s think about the laws governing privacy…

    Ebola and Privacy