Education:

B.A., Vassar University

J.D., Yale Law School

Bio:

Professor Cherry earned her undergraduate degree in 1986 in history from Vassar College, where she graduated with both general and departmental honors. She earned her law degree from the Yale Law School in 1990. At Yale, Cherry was a Senior Editor of the Yale Law Journal. Before joining CSU|LAW in 1999, Professor Cherry was an Assistant Professor at Florida State University College of Law from 1992-1999 and a judicial clerk for Judge Judith Rogers on the D.C. Court of Appeals. Although she teaches in a variety of areas, her research is focused on women, reproductive rights, and ethics. She has published extensively on issues concerning the regulation of pregnancy and pregnant women, and the law and ethics of newer reproductive technologies. Her work can be found in various academic journals including in the Journal of Law and Health, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, and the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, the Tennessee Law Rev, the Oregon Law Review, the Texas Journal of Women and the Law, and the Wisconsin Women’s Law Journal.

Teaching Areas:

Property, Family Law, Estates and Trusts, Women the Law, and Health Law Seminar (focusing on reproductive rights, technologies, and ethics)

Research Areas:

Women and the Law, Reproductive Rights Property