Last updated on: 3/5/2009 | Author: ProCon.org

Herma Kay, JD Biography

Title:
Former Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law at U.C. Berkeley
Position:
None Found to the question "Should Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legal?"
Reasoning:

No position found

Theoretical Expertise Ranking:
    Experts
Individuals with MDs, JDs, PhDs, or equivalent advanced degrees in fields relevant to end-of-life issues. Also top-level government officials (such as foreign leaders, US presidents, Founding Fathers, Supreme Court Justices, members of legislative bodies, cabinet members, military leaders, etc.) with positions relevant to end-of-life.
Involvement and Affiliations:
  • Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law, Boalt Hall, U.C. Berkeley
  • Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award, Boalt Hall Alumni Association, 2003
  • Secretary, American Bar Association (ABA) Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, 1999-2001
  • Dean, Boalt Hall, 1992-2000
  • One of the “50 most influential female lawyers in the country” and one of the “eight most influential lawyers in Northern California,” National Law Journal, 1998
  • Margaret Brent Award to Women Lawyers of Distinction, ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, 1992
  • American Bar Foundation Research Award, 1990
  • President, Association of American Law Schools, 1989
  • Faculty, Salzburg Seminar on American Law, 1987
  • Member, American Philosophical Society
  • Visiting Professor at Harvard University, Lewis & Clark University, and Hamline University
  • Former Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences
  • Law Clerk to Justice Roger Traynor of the California Supreme Court
Education:
  • JD, University of Chicago, 1959
  • BA, Southern Methodist University, 1956
Other:
  • Ms. Kay died on June 10, 2017
Quoted in:
  1. In the Absence of an Advance Directive, Who Makes Decisions for Incapacitated Patients?