Kimberly Mutcherson is vice dean and an award-winning professor whose scholarship
focuses on reproductive justice, bioethics, and family and health law.
She has presented her scholarship nationally and internationally and
publishes extensively on assisted reproduction, families, and the law.
Professor Mutcherson teaches Bioethics and the Law, Torts, Family Law, South African Constitutional Law, and Health Law Policy,
specifically the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. Her scholarly work focuses
on issues at the intersection of health law, bioethics, and family law
with a particular interest in assisted reproduction. Her writing has
appeared in the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, Harvard
Journal of Law and Gender (online), Columbia Journal of Gender and
Law, Nevada Law Journal, Minnesota Law Review Headnotes, and Yale
Journal of Law and Feminism. Professor Mutcherson has spoken nationally
and internationally on topics related to reproductive technologies,
reproductive justice, bioethics, abortion, and health law.
Prior to joining the Rutgers Law School faculty in 2002, she served 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 transgender individuals; and injection drug users. After leaving
HLP, Professor Mutcherson was an acting assistant professor of lawyering
at the New York University School of Law, where she taught Legal Research, Writing, and other legal skills to first-year law students.
Professor Mutcherson is an associate with the Center for Children
and Childhood Studies at Rutgers University-Camden and, in 2006-07, was a fellow
with the Rutgers Institute for Research on Women/Institute for Women's
Leadership Interdisciplinary Seminar on Health and Bodies. She has
served as a board member for the Women's Law Project in Philadelphia
(2005-2010) and a member of the Loan Repayment Assistance Program
Advisory Board at Rutgers Law since 2005. She is a faculty adviser for
OutLaws, Rutgers' association for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender law students and the Black Law Students Association. During
fall 2007, she was a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania
Center for Bioethics and during spring 2013, she was a visiting scholar
and senior fellow at the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia
Law School.
She received the Center for Reproductive Rights Innovation
in Scholarship Award in 2013, the Chancellor's Teaching Excellence Award
in 2011, and the Women's Law Caucus Faculty Appreciation Award in 2011 and 2014.
