Kate Diesfeld

Kate Diesfeld (born 1960) is a New Zealand health law academic. She is currently a full professor at the Auckland University of Technology.
Academic career.
After a 1982 BA in Sociology and Anthropology from Colgate University in New York, Diesfeld did a 1988 Juris Doctorate from University of San Diego and was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1989. Between 1993 and 2000 Diesfeld worked at Kent Law School and before the Mental Health Review Tribunal in England before moving to Auckland University of Technology, then the University of Waikato in New Zealand and then back to Auckland University of Technology in 2012.