[1] At Cornell, her specialties include "jurisprudence, property, and remedies".
[2] Sherwin did her undergraduate studies at Lake Forest College in Illinois, graduating in 1977.
[1] From 1981 to 1982, Sherwin clerked for Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court chief justice Edward F. Hennessey.
[1] With Theodore Eisenberg, she is the author of the casebook Ames, Chafee, and Re on Remedies: Cases and Materials.
With Lawrence A. Alexander, she is the author of two books The Rule of Rules: Morality, Rules & the Dilemmas of Law (Duke University Press, 2001)[3] and Demystifying Legal Reasoning (Cambridge University Press, 2008).