PENN STATE DICKINSON LAW PROFESSOR KATHERINE C. PEARSON COMPLETES RESIDENTIAL PORTION OF FULBRIGHT-CANADA POSITION
January 2025 — Penn State Dickinson Law Professor Katherine C. Pearson has returned from the residential portion of her Fulbright-Canada position as the 2024-25 Research Chair for Health Law, Policy and Ethics at the University of Ottawa. She’s now busy thinking — in a joking but scholarly way — about alternatives to cloning herself, while using AI to support navigation programs for individuals, families and caregivers seeking additional information relevant to Alzheimer’s and related disorders.
Professor Pearson’s post Thinking About Navigation Tools for Individuals, Families and Caregivers with Questions about Alzheimer’s, Dementia or Related Disorders is available on Elder Law Prof Blog.
Professor Katherine Pearson has deep experience in the field of elder law. She is the author of articles and book chapters on long-term care, financing issues, and filial obligations. Her most recent publications include two chapters in the Edward Elgar handbook series on Law, Society and Ageing, appearing in August 2024. She is the co-author of The Law of Financial Abuse and Exploitation (Bisel 2011) — a book about protection of vulnerable persons from financial exploitation. In addition to her most recent Fulbright position in Canada, she is a former Fulbright Scholar (U.K., Queens University Belfast, 2010). Professor Pearson’s work includes international, comparative analysis of laws and policies affecting older persons, and she has served as an international research consultant with teams in the U.K. and Northern Ireland to promote better systems for safeguarding and adult social care
Professor Pearson has served in leadership positions on national and state organizations for academics and attorneys specializing in elder law, including the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, the AALS Section on Law and Aging, and the Pennsylvania Bar Association Elder Law Section. She was a member of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Elder Law Task Force that issued an influential report. For more than ten years, she served as director of Penn State’s Elder Protection Clinic.