Professor Michele Goodwin is the Linda D. & Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Constitutional Law and Global Health Policy at Georgetown Law, where she also serves as co-faculty director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. She is an acclaimed bioethicist, constitutional law scholar, and prolific author, previously a Chancellor’s Professor at…
In June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court did something it had never done before in the context of a long-recognised constitutional right: it took one away. In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that had established a constitutional right to abortion, and Planned Parenthood v. Casey,…
In this episode of The International Risk Podcast, host Dominic Bowen is joined by Professor Michele Goodwin, a leading bioethicist and constitutional law scholar at Georgetown Law, to unpack the history, law, and power structures shaping reproductive rights in America. Goodwin challenges the assumption that abortion criminalization has always been the norm, tracing its roots…
Simon Chadwick is a Professor of AfroEurasian Sport, with three decades of experience in the global sport industry. He is co-editor of The Geopolitical Economy of Sport: Power, Politics, Money and The Geopolitical Economy of Football: Where Power Meets Politics and Business, and he co-founded and co-directs the China Soccer Observatory at the University of…
Sportswashing has become one of the most reached-for words in modern sports journalism, shorthand for the practice of using sponsorships and mega-events to distract from a state’s less flattering reputation. It is a word almost always aimed outward, at Gulf monarchies buying up European football clubs, at China’s Olympic ceremonies or at Russia’s staging of…
