Kimberly Mutcherson is Co-Dean Emeritus and a Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School in Camden, New Jersey. A nationally recognized scholar in reproductive justice, her work explores critical issues at the intersection of law, bioethics, and family with a focus on assisted reproduction, abortion, and maternal-fetal decision-making. Her scholarship has been featured in leading law journals and she published her edited volume, Feminist Judgments: Reproductive Justice Rewritten with Cambridge University Press in 2020.
Professor Mutcherson is the recipient of several prestigious honors, including the inaugural Impact Award from the Association of American Law Schools and the M. Shanara Gilbert Human Rights Award from the Society of American Law Teachers, both awarded in 2021 for her role as a co-founder of the Law Deans Antiracist Clearinghouse Project. In 2023, she was honored with the Trailblazer Award by the New Jersey Women Lawyers Association.
Her academic engagements include time as a Scholar in Residence at NYU Law School’s Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Center, a Senior Fellow at Columbia Law School’s Center for Gender and Sexuality Law, the Phyllis W. Beck Chair in Law at Temple University Beasley School of Law, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Bioethics.
Before entering academia, Professor Mutcherson served as a consulting attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights and as a Kirkland & Ellis Fellow and staff attorney at the HIV Law Project.