Prof Kate Diesfeld JD

Kate held legal advocacy roles with disabled people in Alaska, California and England. She is a member of the California State Bar. She held, or holds, academic roles at Kent School at the University of Canterbury (England), the University of Waikato (NZ) and Auckland University of Technology (NZ). In England, she represented people before the Mental Health Review Tribunal. She co-edited Involuntary Detention and Therapeutic Jurisprudence (2003) and Elder Law in New Zealand (2014).  She is an Associate Editor of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, Fellow of the American College of Legal Medicine and Convenor of The Law Association’s Mental Health and Disability Committee. At Aotearoa Disability Law (community law centre), she is an Advisory Committee member. With disabled people, she recently researched policing as well as assisted dying services. She is a Co-Principal Investigator on the Marsden Fund study “A rehabilitation model for professional discipline”.