Jaime King

Jaime Staples King is an American law academic, and is the John and Marylyn Mayo Chair in Health Law and Professor of Law at the University of Auckland, specialising in medical law and policy.

Academic career King completed a Bachelor of Arts at Dartmouth College in 1998, followed by a J.D. at Emory University in 2001. Her 2008 PhD dissertation at Harvard University was titled The regulation of individual autonomy in medical decision-making. King held the Bion M. Gregory Chair of Business Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law.

King has testified before members of the US House of Representatives, and served on a Technical Expertise Panel for the US Department of Health and Human Services. She has been a board member and President of the Board of the American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics.

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