Sherry Colb

Colb was born on May 3, 1966, in New York City. Her parents, Clara and Ben-Zion Colb, were both Holocaust survivors. After graduating from Ramaz High School, she received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Columbia University; she was valedictorian of the graduating class at both institutions. She then enrolled at Harvard Law School, where she graduated magna cum laude. While studying for her law degree, she also attended the University of Southern California because her husband, Michael C. Dorf, was working in Los Angeles, California at the time. ==Career==

After graduating from law school, Colb worked as a law clerk, first for Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and later for Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun. In 1993, she joined the faculty of Rutgers Law School, initially as an assistant professor; she later gained tenure and became the Judge Frederick Lacey Scholar there. In 2008, she left Rutgers to join the faculty of Cornell, where she served as the Charles Evans Hughes Scholar before being named the inaugural C.S. Wong Professor of Law in 2019. Colb co-authored Beating Hearts: Abortion and Animal Rights with Michael C. Dorf in 2016. Colb advocated for ethical veganism, commenting that there are no good reasons to kill animals for food as people can easily meet all of their nutritional needs on a plant-based diet. Colb argued that sentient fetuses have the right not the be harmed or killed but there is no moral concern to abort pre-sentient fetuses. ==Personal life and death==

Colb became a vegan in 2006. She had breast cancer surgery in 2006 and for a different cancer in 2019 which returned in metastatic form in 2021.{{Cite web|date=2022|title=Sherry Colb ==Selected publications==