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. Also 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 postlaw 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. Professor Mutcherson joined the
Rutgers faculty in 2002, where she teaches Torts; Family Law; Health Law
Policy: The Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic,
Bioethics, Babies, and Babymaking; and South African Constitutional Law. Her
scholarly work focuses on health law and family law, with a particular interest
in bioethics. She has written on issues of health care decision making
involving adolescents and children and assisted reproductive technology. Her writing has appeared in the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender,
Columbia Journal of Gender and Law,
Law and Inequality: A Journal of
Theory and Practice, Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, and the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy.
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