Kimberly Mutcherson is a Professor of Law and former Co-Dean at Rutgers Law School in Camden, NJ. She has a visiting appointment as the Phyllis W. Beck Chair in Law at Temple Law School for the Fall 2024 semester. At Temple, she is teaching Bioethics, Babies, and Babymaking.
Professor Mutcherson is a reproductive justice scholar whose work focuses on assisted reproduction and abortion among other topics. Cambridge University Press released her edited volume, Feminist Judgments: Reproductive Justice Rewritten in 2020.
In 2023, Professor Mutcherson received the Trailblazer Award from the New Jersey Women Lawyer’s Association. She was a co-recipient of the 2021 M. Shanara Gilbert Human Rights Award from the Society of American Law Teachers and the 2020 Association of American Law Schools inaugural Impact Award as one of the creators of the Law Deans Antiracist Clearinghouse Project.
Professor Mutcherson has served as a Scholar in Residence at the Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Center at NYU Law School, a Senior Fellow/Sabbatical Visitor at the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School, and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.
Prior to entering academia, Professor Mutcherson was a consulting attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights and a Kirkland & Ellis Fellow and Staff Attorney at the HIV Law Project.