Professor Goodwin is a highly sought after lecturer and teacher.  She has guest lectured or given workshops 
at Oxford, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Stanford, Northwestern, the University of Chicago, Princeton, and many other academic institutions. Her research and teaching concerns the role of law in the promotion and regulation of medicine, science, and biotechnology. She researches and teaches in the areas of torts, constitutional law, property, biotechnology, bioethics, and cultural politics. Her scholarship defines new ways of thinking about supply, demand, and access to sophisticated medical technologies, including organ transplantation and assisted reproductive technology.   

Professor Goodwin is the founder of the "Baby Markets" consortium series as well as the precursor to the  Lutie Lytle Faculty Workshop Series. She is the recipient of numerous awards, recognizing her contributions to the legal academy, including the Faculty Achievement Award, the Outstanding Scholarship Award, The Black Pearl Award, The Urban League Women's History Month Honor, and the Chicago History Museum's Pioneering Women Award, among others. Governor Paul Patton commissioned her a Colonel in 2001.