Michele B. Goodwin

Publications

• Reconstructing the Reconstruction: Equality, Liberty, Method and Interpretation
  114 GEO. L.J. (2026) · Georgetown Law Journal · 2026
• Crisis and the Constitution: The Role of Civil Liberties in Times of National Security Threat
  2025 U. CHI. LEGAL F. (2025) · University of Chicago Legal Forum · 2025
• She's So Exceptional: Rape and Incest Exceptions Post-Dobbs
  91 U. CHI. L. REV. (2024) · University of Chicago Law Review · 2024
• Involuntary Reproductive Servitude: Forced Pregnancy, Abortion, and the Thirteenth Amendment
  2022 U. CHI. LEGAL F. (2022) · University of Chicago Legal Forum · 2022
• Abortion Rights and Disability Equality: A New Constitutional Battleground
  79 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 965 (2022) · Washington and Lee Law Review · 2022
• Opportunistic Originalism: Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
  2022 SUP. CT. REV. (2022) · Supreme Court Review · 2022
• Pregnancy and the New Jane Crow
  Connecticut Law Review · 2021
• Reading Erwin Chemerinsky
  88 U. CHI. L. REV. (2021) · University of Chicago Law Review · 2021
• Excerpt of Law and Anti-Blackness
  26 MICH. J. RACE & L. 113 (2021) · Michigan Journal of Race and Law · 2021
• Law and Anti-Blackness
  26 MICH. J. RACE & L. 261 (2021) · Michigan Journal of Race and Law · 2021
• A Different Type of Property: White Women and the Human Property They Kept
  119 MICH. L. REV. 1081 (2021) · Michigan Law Review · 2021

• The Thirteenth Amendment: Modern Slavery, Capitalism, and Mass Incarceration
  104 CORNELL L. REV. 899 (2019) · Cornell Law Review · 2019
• American Courts and the Sex Blind Spot: Legitimacy and Representation
  87 FORDHAM L. REV. 2337 (2019) · Fordham Law Review · 2019
• The Transgender Military Ban: Preservation of Discrimination Through Transformation
  114 NW. U. L. REV. 751 (2019) · Northwestern University Law Review · 2019
• Challenging the Rhetorical Gag and TRAP: Reproductive Capacities, Rights, and the Helms Amendment
  112 NW. U. L. REV. 1417 (2018) · Northwestern University Law Review · 2018
• Pregnancy, Poverty and the State
  127 YALE L.J. (2018) · Yale Law Journal · 2018
• Pregnancy, Poverty, and the State The Poverty of Privacy Rights
  127 YALE L.J. 1270 (2018) · Yale Law Journal · 2018
• The Pregnancy Penalty
  26 HEALTH MATRIX 17 (2016) · Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine · 2016
• Compulsory Vaccination Laws Are Constitutional
  110 NW. U. L. REV. 589 (2016) · Northwestern University Law Review · 2016
• Reproduction and the Rule of Law in Latin America
  83 FORDHAM L. REV. 2577 (2015) · Fordham Law Review · 2015
• When Institutions Fail: The Case of Underage Marriage in India
  62 DEPAUL L. REV. 357 (2014) · DePaul Law Review · 2014
• Fetal Protection Laws: Moral Panic and the New Constitutional Battlefront
  102 CAL. L. REV. 781 (2014) · California Law Review · 2014
• Reproducing Hierarchy in Commercial Intimacy
  88 IND. L.J. (2013) · Indiana Law Journal · 2013
• A View from the Cradle: Tort Law and the Private Regulation of Assisted Reproduction
  59 EMORY L.J. 1039 (2010) · Emory Law Journal · 2010
• Introduction — Rising Stars: Recognizing Important New Voices in Law, Medicine, Science & Technology
  11 MINN. J. L. SCI. & TECH. 563 (2010) · Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology · 2010

• Patient Negligence
  72 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. 223 (2009) · Law and Contemporary Problems · 2009
• Rethinking Colorblind State Action: A Thought Experiment on Racial Preferences
  72 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. 251 (2009) · Law and Contemporary Problems · 2009
• Confronting the Limits of Altruism: A Response to Jake Linford
  2 ST. LOUIS U. J. HEALTH L. & POL'Y (2009) · Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy · 2009
• A Few Thoughts on Assisted Reproductive Technology
  27 MINN. J. L. & INEQ. 465 (2009) · Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality · 2009
• Relational Markets in Intimate Goods
  44 TULSA L. REV. 803 (2009) · Tulsa Law Review · 2009
• Expressive Minimalism and Fuzzy Signals: The Judiciary and the Role of Law
  84 CHI.-KENT. L. REV. 19 (2008) · Chicago-Kent Law Review · 2008
• Private Ordering and Intimate Spaces: Why the Ability to Negotiate is Non-Negotiable
  105 MICH. L. REV. 1367 (2007) · Michigan Law Review · 2007
• MY SISTER'S KEEPER?: LAW, CHILDREN, AND COMPELLED DONATION
  29 W. NEW ENG. L. REV. 357 (2007) · Western New England Law Review · 2007
• Precious Commodities: An Introduction
  55 DEPAUL L. REV. 793 (2006) · DePaul Law Review · 2006
• Formalism and the Legal Status of Body Parts
  2006 U. CHI. LEGAL F. (2006) · University of Chicago Legal Forum · 2006
• Race & Urban Health: Confronting a New Frontier
  5 DEPAUL J. HEALTH CARE L. 181 (2004) · DePaul Journal of Health Care Law · 2004
• Rethinking Legislative Consent Law?
  5 DEPAUL J. HEALTH CARE L. 257 (2004) · DePaul Journal of Health Care Law · 2004
• Race as Proxy: An Introduction
  53 DEPAUL L. REV. 931 (2004) · DePaul Law Review · 2004
• Sex, Theory, & Practice: Reconciling Davis v. Monroe & the Harms Casued by Children
  51 DEPAUL L. REV. 805 (2002) · DePaul Law Review · 2002
• Professional Rules and Responsibilitty: Whose Law?
  8 MICH. J. GENDER & L. 97 (2001) · Michigan Journal of Gender & Law · 2001
• WHAT DID IT ALL MEAN?
  11 YALE J. L. & FEMINISM 305 (2000) · Yale Journal of Law & Feminism · 2000