Michele Goodwin

Michele Bratcher Goodwin is the Linda D. & Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Constitutional Law and Global Health Policy at Georgetown Law. She is the co-faculty director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Goodwin previously was a chancellor’s professor at the University of California, Irvine, and founding director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy. She was the Abraham Pinanski Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and is a senior lecturer at Harvard Medical School.

Goodwin is an acclaimed bioethicist, constitutional law scholar, and prolific author. She directed the first American Bar Association (ABA) accredited health law program in the nation and established the first law center focused on race and bioethics. Her scholarship has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Chicago Law Review, Cornell Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, California Law Review, Michigan Law Review, New York Law Review, and Northwestern Law Review, among others. Her scholarship has been referenced by national media, legislators, and civil society organizations. She is the author or editor of six books, including the award-winning Policing The Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood. Her recent honors include the California Women’s Law Center Pursuit of Justice award (2023) and the ABA’s Margaret Brent award (2022).

Goodwin’s work is found in print, radio, and television, including in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Nation, Chicago Sun-Times, Vox, Politico, and The Washington Post, and she has appeared on ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, MSNBC, and NPR, among others. She is also the executive producer of Ms. Studios and host of On the Issues with Michele Goodwin.