Associate Professor of Law. Professor Mutcherson earned
her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994 and her J.D. in
1997 from Columbia University School of Law, where she was a Stone
Scholar and received the Rosenmann Prize at graduation for her
commitment to public interest law. At Columbia,
she cofounded the school's Women of Color Coalition and
co-coordinated the law school's first conference on women of color and
the law. While at Columbia, she worked as an intern for several
public interest organizations including the Center for Reproductive Law
and Policy (now the Center for Reproductive Rights), the Legal Aid
Society-Juvenile Rights Division, and the American Civil Liberties
Union Women's Rights Project. Professor Mutcherson began her
post-law school legal career as a Kirkland & Ellis Fellow at the
HIV Law Project (HLP), where she continued to work as a staff attorney
when her fellowship year ended. At HLP, she focused on impact
litigation and policy work for underrepresented populations including
women; low-income gay, lesbian, and transgendered individuals; and
injection drug users. Among other topics, she worked on issues of
mandatory HIV testing, under-inclusion of women and people of color in
clinical trials, mandatory partner notification, and name-based HIV
reporting. She also coordinated HLP's advocacy training program for
HIV-positive women. Professor Mutcherson joined the Rutgers faculty in
2002, where she teaches Torts; HIV/AIDS and the Law; and Bioethics,
Babies, and Babymaking. Her scholarly work focuses on health
law, with a particular interest in bioethics, and family law. She
has written on issues of health care decision making involving
adolescents and children, and her writing has appeared in the Harvard
Women's Law Journal and the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy.
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