Alyssa King is a Ph.D. candidate in law at Yale University and a resident fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project. From 2012 to 2013, she was a lecturer in law at Peking University School of Transnational Law in Shenzhen. She served as a summer marshal to Mr. Justice Stock, then Vice President of the Court of Appeal for the High Court in Hong Kong in 2010.

In the United States, King clerked for the Honorable Barrington D. Parker of the Second Circuit and the Honorable Nicholas G. Garaufis of the Eastern District of New York. She holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Master 2 from L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and an A.B. from Harvard University.

Last Updated: January 27, 2016

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The Trouble with Hong Kong’s Chief Executives

Denise Y. Ho & Alyssa King
On January 14, the trial of Sir Donald Tsang, Hong Kong’s former chief executive who served from 2005 to 2012, was set for January 3 of 2017. This past December, Tsang pleaded not guilty to two counts of misconduct in public office, charges on which...