Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

Michele Bratcher Goodwin (Chancellor’s Professor of Law; Director, Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy, University of California, Irvine)

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In this talk, Professor Goodwin addresses the escalation of criminal punishments directed at pregnant women in the United States. Her talk reflects more than ten years of research addressing the intersection of mass incarceration and reproductive health and rights. In this talk, Professor Goodwin offers a deeper look at the ways in which reproduction has become a site of increasing state surveillance and punishment.

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 the recipient of the 2020-21 Distinguished Senior Faculty Award for Research. 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). 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 also the host and executive producer of the podcast, On the Issues with Michele Goodwin, at Ms. magazine.