Michele 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. Her scholarship on organ transplant policy in the United States contributed to a renewed public agenda, and defined new ways of thinking about supply, demand, and access to sophisticated medical treatments. Michele is a leading voice in the debates on biotechnology and bioethics, and socioeconomics and race in medicine. Her writings on baby markets, judicial formalism, law and status, organ procurement, assisted reproduction, reproductive politics, family immunity in tort law, and patient negligence appear in journals published by the University of Chicago, University of Michigan, George Washington University, Duke University, University of Virginia, University of Alabama, Barnard College, and many others.