Pauline Kim
Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and Professor of Law
Office: Anheuser-Busch Hall, Room 402
Phone: (314) 935-8570 / (314) 935-6856
E-mail: kim@wulaw.wustl.edu
Assistant: Shelly Henderson-Ford - (314) 935-8598
- Curriculum Vitae [view]
(For the most recent list of publications and activities, please see the current CV.) - Activities [view]
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Courses Taught
Civil Procedure
Employment Law
Seminar on Courts and Judicial Decision-Making
Education
A.B., 1984, Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges
1984-85 Henry Fellow, New College, Oxford
J.D., 1988, Harvard University
Profile
After earning her J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, Professor Kim clerked for the Honorable Cecil F. Poole on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Following her clerkship, she was the Felix Velarde-Munoz Fellow, and later a staff attorney, at the Employment Law Center/Legal Aid Society of San Francisco, where she litigated cases involving race, sex and disability discrimination, racial and sexual harassment, and unlawful working conditions.
Professor Kim joined the faculty of Washington University School of Law in 1994, where she teaches employment law, civil procedure and a seminar on Courts and Judicial Decision-Making. Her scholarship focuses on employment law, workplace privacy, litigation and courts, and judicial decision-making. In the 2007-08 academic year, Professor Kim was the inaugural John S. Lehmann Research Professor. She is currently serving as Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development.
Recent major publications include "Work Law: Cases and Materials," Matthew Bender & Co. (2005) (with Marion Crain & Michael Selmi); "Deliberation and Strategy on the United State Courts of Appeals" (forthcoming in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review); "Lower Court Discretion", 82 N.Y.U.L. Rev. 383 (2007); The Supreme Court Forecasting Project: Legal and Political Science Approaches to Predicting Supreme Court Decision-Making," 104 Columbia Law Review 1150 (2004) (with Theodore Ruger, Andrew Martin and Kevin Quinn); "The Colorblind Lottery," 72 Fordham Law Review 9 (2003); "Genetic Discrimination, Genetic Privacy: Rethinking Employee Protection for a Brave New Workplace," 96 Northwestern University Law Review 1497 (2002); "Norms, Learning and Law: Exploring the Influences on Workers' Legal Knowledge," 1999 University of Illinois Law Review 447 (1999); "Bargaining with Imperfect Information: A Study of Worker Perceptions of Legal Protection in an At-Will World," 83 Cornell Law Review 105 (1997); "Privacy Rights, Public Policy and the Employment Relationship," 57 Ohio State Law Journal 671 (1996). See "Publications" link above for a complete list.
Professor Kim is the Principal Investigator, along with Co-Principal Investigators Margo Schlanger and Andrew Martin, on a research project on government-initiated employment discrimination litigation in the federal courts. The project is funded by a two-year grant from the National Science Foundation.
Professor Kim co-founded the Workshop on Empirical Research in the Law, an interdisciplinary faculty workshop at Washington University and is affiliated with the Center for Empirical Research in the Law and the Civil Rights Clearinghouse. She is also a member of the American Law Institute and an Advisor to the ALI's Restatement of Employment Law.