Dealing with Death: An Examination of Past and Present Aid-in-Dying Litigation with Kathryn Tucker

Kathryn Tucker is the Co-Chair of the Psychedelic Practice Group at Emerge Law Group and a Founding Board Member & Co-Interim Executive Director at The Psychedelic Bar Association. She has served as an adjunct law professor at Lewis and Clark School of Law, Seattle University, the University of Washington, Loyola/LA and Hastings. In 1997, as legal director of Compassion & Choices, Tucker argued Washington v. Glucksberg before the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking to establish a federal constitutional right to choose aid-in-dying. The Glucksberg case is widely recognized as prompting widespread effort to improve end-of-life care. Tucker attended Hampshire College and Georgetown Law School.