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Associate Professor Rutgers School of Law - Camden 217 North Fifth Street Camden, NJ 08102
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Biography
Professor Kimberly Mutcherson received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law. As a student at Columbia, in addition to being a Stone Scholar, she co-founded 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, the Legal Aid Society-Juvenile Rights Division, and the American Civil Liberties Union Women's Rights Project. At graduation, Professor Mutcherson received the Rosenmann Prize for her commitment to public interest law.
Professor Mutcherson began her post-law school 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 named-based HIV reporting. She also coordinated HLP's advocacy training program for HIV-positive women.
Before joining the faculty of Rutgers, Professor Mutcherson served as an Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering at New York University School of Law where she taught legal research and writing and other legal skills to first year law students. She joined the Rutgers faculty in 2002 where she teaches Torts, HIV/AIDS & the Law, and Bioethics, Babies and Babymaking. Her scholarly interests are in health law, family law, and bioethics.
Publications
No Way to Treat a Woman: Creating an Appropriate Standard for Resolving Medical Treatment Disputes Involving HIV-Positive Children, Harvard Women's Law Journal (Spring 2002).
Whose Body Is It Anyway? An Updated Model of Healthcare Decision-Making Rights for Adolescents, Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy (Summer 2005).
Minor Discrepancies: Forging a Common Understanding of Adolescent Competence in Healthcare Decision-making and Criminal Responsibility, Nevada Law Journal (forthcoming Summer 2006).