Mary Anne Bobinski
14th Dean of Emory University
School of Law
Assumed office
August 1, 2019
Preceded byJames B. Hughes Jr.
Personal details
Born1962 (age 6162)
Cortland, New York
Education
OccupationLegal scholar and educator

Mary Anne Bobinski (born 1962) is an American legal scholar and educational administrator who serves as the dean of the Emory University School of Law. She was the dean of the Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia from 2003 to 2015 and is a past President of the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics.[1][2]

Bobinski was born in Cortland, New York and studied at the State University of New York at Buffalo where she received her BA in psychology in 1982 and her JD in 1987. She served a judicial clerkship with Max Rosenn of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and then did further study at Harvard Law School, receiving her LL.M. in 1989. She joined the faculty of the University of Houston Law Center in 1989 as an assistant professor. She served as Director of the Health Law and Policy Institute there from 2001 and from 2002 was the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Law. In 2003 she was appointed Dean of the Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia and served in that post through 2015.[3][4][5] She is a current (December 2017) member of the Committee of the Allard Prize for International Integrity.[6]

On May 23, 2019, Emory University announced the appointment of Bobinski as Dean of Emory University School of Law, making her the first woman to serve in the role since Emory Law's founding in 1916.

References

  1. States News Service (26 February 2016). "CU-Boulder Announces Four Finalists for Law Dean"
  2. American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics. "Past Presidents"
  3. Allard School of Law. Faculty biography: Mary Anne Bobinski
  4. University of Colorado Law School. "Mary Anne Bobinski" Archived February 3, 2017, at the Wayback Machine
  5. Who's Who Among American Law Students, Volume 7 (1987). "Bobinski, Mary Anne", p. 34. University Publishing Bureau
  6. "Allard Prize Committee". Allard Prize for International Integrity. December 5, 2017. Retrieved December 5, 2017.

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