Cherie O. Taylor is a nonresident scholar at the Claudio X. González Center for the U.S. and Mexico, a professor of law at South Texas College of Law Houston, and the director of its Institute for International Legal Practice. She served as the associate dean for academics at the law school from 2020 to 2023.

Taylor teaches international business transactions, transactional skills (international business), world trading systems, international law, and civil procedure. She has published extensively in the field of international economic law, focusing on regionalism, WTO/GATT law and dispute settlement, and U.S. trade policy. Her work has appeared in publications such as the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law, the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, and the Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business.

Taylor is a former chair of the International Economic Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law and served on its advisory board. She founded and continues to serve as faculty advisor for Currents: Journal of International Economic Law, which launched in 1992 with an issue on the recently negotiated NAFTA.

Taylor earned her bachelor's at Harvard-Radcliffe and her law degree at the University of Georgia, where she served as a notes editor for the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. After graduation, she clerked for Judge Thomas A. Clark on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Before joining South Texas College of Law Houston, Taylor practiced in the international trade group at Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, D.C., where she handled import relief actions, Section 301 cases, and advised clients on trade legislation and multilateral and regional trade agreements. During her practice, she earned her Master of Laws degree from Georgetown University Law Center.