Kim Awarded Research Professorship

Professor Pauline Kim has been awarded the School of Law’s first Dean’s Distinguished Research Professorship in recognition of her outstanding scholarship. The fellowship provides for a research leave during the spring 2008 semester.

Kim’s scholarship has focused on employment law, empirical legal research, and the courts and judicial decision-making. Her major publications include her co-authored casebook, Work Law: Cases and Materials, and numerous articles in legal journals. Her most recent article on lower court decision-making is forthcoming in the NYU Law Review.

A member of the law faculty since 1994, Kim is one of the co-founders and organizers of the Workshop on Empirical Research in the Law, an interdisciplinary faculty workshop at Washington University, which is now a part of the School of Law’s Center on Empirical Research in the Law. Kim is a member of the American Law Institute and an advisor to the ALI’s Restatement of Employment Law. 

The Dean’s Research Professorship was created to allow productive scholars the ability to concentrate on in-depth research projects, while relieving them of teaching and administrative duties during one semester.