Kimberly Mutcherson (BA, University of Pennsylvania; JD, Columbia School of Law), Assistant Professor of Law, Rutgers School of Law, is interested in models for family decision-making, particularly on issues related to healthcare. Her research on children includes medical treatment disputes involving HIV-positive children and her studies related to adolescents explore issues surrounding legal personhood.

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 Healthcare Decision-Making Model for Adolescents (work in progress)

Drexel University School of Public Health, Health and Human Rights (February 2003, February 2004).

American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics and St. Louis University Health Law Scholar’s Workshop, Whose Body Is It Anyway? A Proposal for Increasing the Healthcare Decision-making Rights of Adolescents (October 2003).

Villanova Law School Junior Faculty Workshop, Whose Body Is It Anyway? A Proposal for Increasing the Healthcare Decision-making Rights of Adolescents (November 2003).

University of Pennsylvania African-American Resource Center Monthly Networking Series, Life in the Legal Academy (November 2003).

HIV/AIDS Law and Practice: “From Nuts & Bolts” to “Cutting Edge”, Policies that Punish: Mandatory HIV Testing of Newborns and Mandated Treatment of HIV-positive Children (May 2002).

The Center for Reproductive Law and Policy. New York, New York.
Consulting Attorney spring 2000-summer 2000. Aided in preparation for two major reproductive rights cases heard by the United States Supreme Court. Conducted legal research and writing.

The HIV Law Project. New York, New York. Kirkland & Ellis Fellow/Staff Attorney fall 1997-spring 2000. Co-counsel on lawsuit challenging New York State law mandating HIV testing of all newborns.

Prisoners’ and Families’ Rights Clinic. New York, New York (Columbia Law School). Legal Intern fall 1996- spring 1997. Represented incarcerated women in a parole appeal and a termination of parental rights proceeding. Conducted workshops at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility on the rights of incarcerated parents.

The HIV Law Project. New York, New York. Legal Intern fall 1996-spring 1997
Researched the reproductive rights implications of mandatory HIV testing of newborns and forced AZT administration to pregnant women. Aided in the writing of published article on the same topic.

The Legal Aid Society, Juvenile Rights Division. Brooklyn, New York.
Legal Intern/Columbia Law School Public Service Fellow summer 1996
Conducted client interviews, researched and wrote pre-trial motions for discovery and dismissal, made court appearances to argue discovery motion and withdraw PINS (Person in Need of Supervision) petition.

The American Civil Liberties Union, Women’s Rights Project. New York, New York.
Legal Intern/Singer Fellow fall 1995. Aided in the preparation of an amicus brief for sex discrimination case heard in the U.S. Supreme Court. Conducted research on issues concerning access to abortion services for incarcerated women and prosecution of pregnant women for fetal abuse. Created an annotated bibliography on writings in the area of critical race theory.

The Center for Reproductive Law and Policy. New York, New York.
Legal Intern/Columbia Law School Public Service Fellow summer 1995. Conducted research on Constitutional and procedural issues for reproductive rights litigation. Aided in drafting complaint for new lawsuit. Traveled to Indiana to gather declarations from women and abortion providers who would be adversely impacted by new restrictive abortion law.