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Michele Bratcher Goodwin is the Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the UCI School of Law.
Professor Goodwin will speak on conscience clauses; a clause that makes concessions to the consciences of those affected by a law. For example Congress passed a “conscience clause” bill, which permitted any individual opposed to abortion to refuse to perform the procedure. Similarly conscience clauses permit health care providers to ignore end of life requests.
Professor Michele Goodwin is a Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine with appointments at the School of Law, Program in Public Health, Department of Criminology, Law, & Society, Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Center for Psychology and Law. She is the founder and director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy at UC Irvine School of Law and its internationally acclaimed Reproductive Justice Initiative.
Professor Goodwin is one of the world’s leading authorities on the regulation of medicine, science, and biotechnology. Her publications include five books and over 70 articles and book chapters on law’s regulation of the human body, including civil and criminal regulation of pregnancy and reproduction.
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