Academic Visitor, Chair of Human Rights (Alexander von Humboldt Professorship)
Dr. Alyssa King is Associate Professor (tenured) at Queen’s University Faculty of Law in Kingston, Ontario, where she studies comparative procedure, courts, and arbitration and teaches contracts, cross-border litigation, and civil procedure. Her research focuses on the diffusion of rules and approaches to litigation between legal systems as well as questions of federalism and access to justice.
Dr. King is one of this year’s Queen’s University Faculty of Law Research Excellence Scholars. She will be pursuing the related project, “The Rule of Law and the Offshore” during her visit to FAU, focusing on the use of offshore courts as an aspect of autocratisation. This project relates to previous and ongoing work with Professor Pamela Bookman on international commercial courts and their use of “Traveling Judges,” for which she received a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
She is also a co-investigator with Professors Suzanne Chiodo (PI) and Gerard Kennedy, on the SSHRC funded-grant “Fighting the Backlog: How are Ontario’s courts using summary procedures in response to pandemic-related delays?”
Dr. King received her doctorate and JD degrees from Yale University (supervisor: Judith Resnik), a master from EHESS, and her bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.
(with Pamela K. Bookman) “Uncommon Common Law Courts,” work in progress
(with Suzanne E. Chiodo and Gerard J. Kennedy) “Hryniak’s Erosion: Summary Judgment in Ontario,” (Canadian Bar Review, forthcoming 2026)
(with Jonathan Nash) “Climate Change Nuisance Litigation in the U.S. and Canada: Emulation and Divergence,” inInstitutions and Effective Climate Action (Cherie Metcalf & Stephanie Stern, eds., 2026)
“Ethics for Traveling Judges” (2025) 75:3 UTLJ 309
“Wind-down Authority Across the St. Lawrence: A Response to Buchanan and Dorf” (2023) 103:7 BU L Rev 2113
(with Pamela K. Bookman) “Visiting Judges Going Global,” (2023) 106:3 Judicature 25
(with Pamela K. Bookman) “Traveling Judges” (2022) 116:3 Am J Intl L 477
(with Pamela K. Bookman) “Conclusion: Transnational Dispute Resolution, International Commercial Courts and the Future of International Commercial Law” in Sudaresh Menon & Anselmo Reyes, eds., Transnational Commercial Disputes in an Age of Anti-Globalism and Pandemic (Oxford: Hart 2022), 313
“I Say Discovery, You Say Disclosure: Evidence in International Arbitration” in Shala F. Ali, Filip Balcerzak, Giorgio Fabio Colombo, and Joshua Karton eds. Diversity in Arbitration: Why It Matters and How to Sustain It (London: Elgar, 2022), 208
“Ontario’s Pandemic Procedure” (2021) 46:2 Queen’s LJ 445
“Global Civil Procedure” (2021) 62:1 Harv Intl LJ 223