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.

Biography
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 (Studies in jurisprudence, political and moral philosophy). In 1988, Kim graduated with J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School.

Kim served as a Clerk for  Cecil F. Poole on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1988-1989). Then, she became a Staff Attorney at the Employment Law Center of the Legal Aid Society of San Francisco (1990-1994). 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.

Awards and honors

 * David M. Becker Professor of the Year, 2016
 * International Association of Privacy Professionals Paper Award for "Data-Driven Discrimination at Work," presented at Privacy Law Scholars' Conference, 2016

Selected publications

 * Work Law: Cases and Materials (3d ed.), with Marion Crain & Michael Selmi, Matthew Bender & Co./LexisNexis Group (2015). ISBN 978-1632815392