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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.
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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.
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Moments earlier she had said firmly but politely that she didn't want to answer any questions about her family life So I was surprised to see her face light up at the mention of Chapman. I tell her people are still fascinated by her love affair with the singer Tracy Chapman in the mid-1990s. But the interview also includes this official bomb: Fresh off the recent Riverside Church reading of Oprah-ordained author Alice Walker, the Guardian's Sarah Wajid buttonholes the author in Soho and gets her to dish on leaving Random House and comparing herself to a fig tree.