Michele Bratcher Goodwin, JD, LLM, SJD is the O'Neill Professor of Constitutional Law and Global Health Policy and the Faculty Director of the O'Neill Institute at Georgetown Law. She was a Gilder Lehrman Posdoctoral Fellow at Yale University, and earned her doctorate of juridical sciences and masters in law from the University of Wisconsin and her juris doctorate from Boston College. Dr. Goodwin is a prolific author and one of the most cited health law scholars in the world. Her research engages bioethics, medicine, and law. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute as well as the Hastings Center for Bioethics, where she served as Chair of the Fellows Council. Her publications appear in the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Cornell Law Review, NYU Law Review, as well as other elite law journals. Her commentaries and interviews appear in the New York Time, LA Times, The Nation, Washington Post, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone and numerous others. She is a recipient of the American Bar Association's prestigious Margaret Brent Award.