Kimberly Mutcherson

Kimberly Mutcherson is a Professor at Rutgers Law School in Camden. A nationally recognized scholar in reproductive justice, her work focuses on assisted reproduction and abortion. She has published in leading law journals, and Cambridge University Press published her edited volume, Feminist Judgments: Reproductive Justice Rewritten in 2020. In 2021, she received the inaugural Impact Award from the Association of American Law Schools for her role as a co-founder of the Law Deans Antiracist Clearinghouse Project.

Publications:

• A Brain-Dead Woman Is Being Kept on Machines to Gestate a Fetus. It Was Inevitable, Guest Essay, New York Times, May 24, 2025
• How to Get Free in a Time of Retrenchment, Harvard Law Review, 2025
• Abortion Bans Are Never Just About Abortion, The Nation

Media Appearances/Speaking Engagements:

• Society of Family Planning Annual Meeting, Plenary Panel Speaker
• NYU School of Law- Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Center, Personhood and Pregnancy, Panelist
• Georgetown Law-O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Memory, Medicine, and Law: Reflecting on the 20th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Reproductive Justice and the Roberts Court

Organizations: 

• Lawyering Project Board Chair

Accomplishments:

• Co-founder Association of American Law Schools Law Deans Antiracist Clearinghouse
• 2024 Changemaker Award from the Antiracist Development Institute at Penn State Dickinson Law
• New Jersey Reparations Council, Health Equity Committee, Member

Upcoming Projects:

• Assisted Reproductive Justice: Navigating the Ethical Landscape of Race, Law, and Fertility with Camisha Russell

As a reproductive justice scholar, social and racial justice permeate all of my work, which is rooted in the history of racialized reproductive oppression in the United States from its founding. Without recognizing that history, it is impossible to dismantle the tangle of structural barriers to true reproductive freedom in the U.S. and beyond.