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Michele Bratcher Goodwin is the Everett Fraser Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota. She also holds joint appointments in the Medical School and School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. Her forthcoming book, Baby Markets, builds upon a distinguished body of scholarship debating the significance of moral, ethical, and legal norms in transactions involving the human body. Goodwin's recent book, Black Markets: The Supply & Demand of Body Parts (Cambridge University Press, 2006), explores causes for organ shortages and methods to remedy that policy challenge. In particular, she is interested in exploring how property, tort, and contract theories engage with the human body and shape judicial and legislative law/rule making and deliberation. Goodwin's other forthcoming projects critique private versus public speech, political correctness, and citizenship. Professor Goodwin is the former Wicklander Chair in Ethics and Professor of Law at DePaul University, where she directed the Health Law Institute. Prior to law teaching, Goodwin was a Gilder-Lehrman post-doctoral fellow at Yale University. She has also been a visiting scholar at the University of California Law School's Center for Law and Society.