Pauline Kim


Pauline Kim, a specialist in employment law, is the Charles Nagel Chair of Constitutional Law and Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis and the Co-Director of its Center for Empirical Research in the Law.

Early life and education

Kim earned an A.B., summa cum laude in Social Justice from Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges in 1984. From 1984 to 1985, Kim attended New College, Oxford University as a Henry Fellow. In 1988, Kim graduated with J.D.,magna cum laude from Harvard Law School.

Career

Kim served as a Clerk for Cecil F. Poole on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Then, she became a Staff Attorney at the Employment Law Center of the Legal Aid Society of San Francisco. In 1994, she joined the faculty of Washington University School of Law as Associate Professor. She was the first recipient of the law school's John S. Lehmann Research Professorship in 2007-2008 and was the school's Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development in 2008-2010, and co-founded its Workshop on Empirical Research in the Law.

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