Mary Anne Bobinski (born 1962) is dean of the

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and an American legal scholar and educator whose research focuses on health law in the United States and Canada. She was the dean of the Allard School of Law at the

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from 2003 to 2015 and is a past President of the

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. 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

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of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and then did further study at

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, receiving her

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in 1989. She joined the faculty of the

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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. She is a current (December 2017) member of the Committee of the Allard Prize for International Integrity. On May 23, 2019,

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announced the appointment of Bobinski as Dean of

, making her the first woman to serve in the role since Emory Law's founding in 1916.

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