Reproductive Justice after Roe

The Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research is holding a seminar at 12 p.m. on Thursday, November 17, 2022, as part of its Brown Bag Seminar Series.

“Reproductive Justice after Roe”

Presented by Kimberly Mutcherson, Rutgers Law School

Kimberly Mutcherson is co-dean and professor of law at Rutgers Law School in Camden. She is the first woman, the first Black person, and the first member of the LGBTQ community to have this role at the law school, according to the Institute for Health. Mutcherson is a reproductive justice scholar whose work focuses on assisted reproduction and abortion. Cambridge University Press released her edited volume, Feminist Judgments: Reproductive Justice Rewritten, in 2020.

In 2021, Mutcherson received the Association of American Law Schools inaugural Impact Award as a co-founder of the Law Deans Antiracist Clearinghouse Project. She received the Center for Reproductive Rights Innovation in Scholarship Award in 2013, a Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award in 2011, and the Women’s Law Caucus Faculty Appreciation Award in 2011 and 2014. She has been 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. She received a B.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. degree from Columbia Law School. She also received the Kirkland and Ellis Fellowship for post-graduate public interest work upon her graduation from Columbia. Prior to joining the faculty at Rutgers, Mutcherson was a consulting attorney at the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (now the Center for Reproductive Rights) and a staff attorney at the HIV Law Project.

Online via Zoom

Free and open to the public. Click here to join via Zoom (meeting ID: 969 0783 5979; passcode: 823201). For more information, contact Nicole Swenarton, Institute for Health, at nswenarton@ifh.rutgers.edu.