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Tuesdays from 2-3 p.m.

Biography

Professor Mutcherson teaches courses on bioethics, torts, family law, and health law policy, specifically the global HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Prior to joining the Rutgers 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 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. Professor Mutcherson then 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–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 and a member of the Loan Repayment Assistance Program Advisory Board since 2005. She is a member of the Penn Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Alumni Association (PennGALA) and is the faculty advisor for OutLaws, Rutgers' association for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender law students. During fall 2007, she was a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics.

Professor Mutcherson has spoken nationally on topics related to human subject research, reproductive technologies, and health law.

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 (summer 2006).

Making Mommies: Law, Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis, and the Complications of Pre-Motherhood, Columbia Journal of Gender and Law(spring 2009)

Disabling Dreams of Parenthood:  The Fertility Industry, Anti-discrimination, and Parents with Disabilities (Law and Inequality:  A Journal of Theory and Practice, summer 2009)

What’s Love Got to Do with It? (Conversations on a Pregnant Man)  (Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, fall 2010)