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Education:
J.D., University of Miami
B.A., University of Arizona
Professor Pearson joined our faculty in 1995, after having served as a member of the clinical faculty of the University of New Mexico School of Law, and after having worked as a law clerk to a federal trial judge, as a trial lawyer in private practice, and as head of the civil rights division of the Albuquerque, NM Legal Department, representing police officers charged with constitutional violations. At Penn State Dickinson Professor Pearson teaches evidence and conflict of laws. She has created an elder law curriculum including an elder law seminar, a workshop in legal problems of the elderly, and an Elder Law and Consumer Protection Clinic.
Recognized throughout the legal community for her expertise on legal issues facing older citizens, Professor Pearson has been selected to speak before the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, the National Council on Family Relations, at the National Aging and the Law Conference in Washington, D.C., and at conferences on elder law studies and gerontology hosted by the Canadian Centre for Elder Law at the University of British Columbia and Oregon State University.
Professor Pearson's recent articles analyzing third-party liability for health and long term care have led to legislation, drafted by students under her supervision, introduced before the Commonwealth's House of Representatives. The Pennsylvania Bar Association honored Professor Pearson with a special achievement award for her work on elder law topics and for her guidance in advancing legislative initiatives. In 2006-2008, Professor Pearson served as the co-chair for a task force on diversity and academic interests for the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and she is the 2008-09 Chair-Elect for the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Elder Law Section.
She frequently teaches a Cross-Border Family Law course with an international elder law perspective for summer programs abroad, including Mexico City, and has been a visiting professor of law at American University 's Washington College of Law and the University of San Diego School of Law.
Contact Information:
Email:
kcp4@psu.edu
Phone: (717) 240-5219
Personal Web page with links to publications
Selected Publications:
Elder Law in Pennsylvania (3rd Edition) (co-author with Jeffrey Marshall, Esq.) forthcoming in 2009.
"Filial Support Obligations in Pennsylvania: Adult Children, Parents and Spouses," the 2008 Supplement to Elder Law in Pennsylvania (2d Ed. by Jeffrey Marshall, Esq.) (available July 2008).
"Partners in Outreach and Advocacy: Interdisciplinary Opportunities in University-Based Legal Clinics," with L. Johnston-Walsh, Journal of Higher Education Outreach & Engagement, 2007.
"Finances, Families and Filial Laws: The Real
World as Classroom," invited essay for National
Council on Family Relations Report,
2006.
"Continuing Care Retirement Communities, State
Regulation and the Growing Importance of Counsel,"
Pennsylvania Bar Quarterly, 2006.
"Why Mexico? Why Mexican Law? Why Now?," with J. Smith & M. Rustad, Penn State International Law Review, 2005.
"Re-Thinking Filial Support Laws In A Time Of
Medicaid Cutbacks," Pennsylvania Bar Quarterly,
2005.
"Representing Smith and Jones: The Lawyer's
Ethical Considerations in Medicaid Planning for the
Elderly," Pennsylvania Bar Quarterly, 2004.
"The Responsible Thing to Do About 'Responsible
Party' Provisions in Nursing Home Agreements: A Proposal
for Change on Three Fronts," University of
Michigan Journal of Law Reform, 2004.
"Departing from the Routine: Application of
Indian Tribal Law Under the Federal Tort Claims Act,"
Arizona State Law Journal, 2000.
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