The Long Arc of Reproductive Freedom with Michele Goodwin

Join the School of Social Transformation as we celebrate the 23rd John P. Frank Annual Memorial Lecture: "The Long Arc of Reproductive Freedom" with Michele Goodwin. 

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.  She is currently the Abraham Pinanski Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.  She is the 2022 recipient of the American Bar Association’s Margaret Brent Award as well as the 2022 Trailblazer Award from the Black Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles. In 2020-21, she received the Distinguished Senior Faculty Award for Research, the highest honor bestowed by the University of California. She is also the first law professor at the University of California, Irvine to receive this award. In 2021-22, she was named the Provost’s Distinguished Visiting Faculty Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. 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).   

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. Courts of Appeals. 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.   

She is the author of Policing The Womb: Invisible Women and The Criminalization of Motherhood. She is also the host of the popular podcast On The Issues at Ms. Magazine.