Dr. Alyssa King

Biography

Alyssa King is an Associate Professor at Queen's Law, specializing in courts and comparative procedure. Her research primarily focuses on the role of adjudicators and the borrowing of procedural rules. She is particularly interested in access to justice, the intersection of normative systems, mechanisms of federalism, arbitration, and the reception of international law. King received her PhD from Yale University in 2018 and holds a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School (2012), as well as a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and a Master's degree from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. She has served as the executive editor of the Yale Journal of International Law and as a senior editor for the Yale Law Journal. With bar membership in New York, she has also previously clerked for Judge Barrington D. Parker of the Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis of the Eastern District of New York. Her notable publications include works in prominent law journals addressing judges' ethics, civil procedure, and global civil procedure.

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