Black Markets

Michele Goodwin is the Everett Fraser Professor in Law at the University of Minnesota. She holds joint appointments at the University of Minnesota Medical School and the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Prior to teaching law, Goodwin was a Gilder-Lehrman postdoctoral fellow at Yale University, Connecticut. She serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Law and Social Inquiry and the Harvard/Stanford/Duke Journal of Law and the Biosciences. She is the author or editor of four books and more than sixty articles and book chapters. Her editorials and commentaries have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Forbes, Gene Watch, Christian Science Monitor, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Houston Chronicle, Chicago Sun Times, and the Washington Post. She is a columnist for “The Conversation” at the Chronicle of Higher Education.

1. Introduction; Part I: 2. Institutional supply and demand; 3. Nuances, judicial authority, and legal limits of altruism; 4. Equal opportunity rationing: racial and economic disparities; Part II. Legal Frameworks and Alternatives: 5. The legal process of procurement and allocation: regulatory frame; 6. Presumed consent; 7. Commodification; Part III: 8. Tissue sales: an African American predicament?: critiquing the slavery and black body market comparison; 9. The private and public financial transaction in tissue transplantation; 10. African Americans and organ sales; 11. Conclusion.