Janine Kim

Janine Young Kim joined the Fowler School of Law faculty in 2016. From 2008-2016 she taught at Marquette University Law School and previously taught at Southwestern and Whittier Law Schools. Professor Kim has offered courses relating to Criminal Law, Torts, Criminal Procedure, and Race and the Law, and received an Excellence in Teaching Award in 2008.

Professor Kim’s scholarship, teaching, and service focus especially on race and the criminal justice system. Her work has been cited by scholars in a wide range of disciplines and featured in various media outlets, such as The New York Times and Al Jazeera. She has served numerous community and professional organizations, including the Korean American Coalition, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, and the Wisconsin Bar’s Diversity and Inclusion Oversight Committee.

Prior to teaching, Professor Kim practiced for three years with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in New York. She also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Alfred T. Goodwin of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Professor Kim received her JD from Yale Law School and both her M.A. and B.A. from Stanford University, where she was selected as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. At Yale Law School, she was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, a Coker Fellow, and the executive editor of the Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal.

Course Taught:

Criminal Procedure/Police Practice, and Trial Practice.

Selected Publications

What is an Unreasonable Search?, 101 Oregon Law Review (forthcoming)

Introduction, 2021 Diversity and Social Justice Forum 4 (2021)

On the Broadness of the Fourth Amendment, 74 SMU Law Review 3 (2021)

On Race and Persuasion, 20 CUNY Law Review 505 (2017)

Racial Emotions and the Feeling of Equality, 87 University of Colorado Law Review 437 (2016)

Postracialism: Race After Exclusion, 17 Lewis & Clark Law Review 1063 (2013)

Resistance and Transformation: Re-Reading Mari Matsuda in the Postracial Era, 18 UCLA Asian Pacific American Law Journal 35 (2012-2013)

Off-Court Misbehavior: Sports Leagues and Private Punishment, 99 Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 573 (2009) (with Matthew J. Parlow)

The Rhetoric of Self-Defense, 13 Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law 261 (2008)

Rule and Exception in Criminal Law, 82 Tulane Law Review 247 (2007) 

Hate Crime Law and the Limits of Inculpation, 84 Nebraska Law Review 846 (2006)

Are Asians Black?: The Asian-American Civil Rights Agenda and the Contemporary Significance of the Black/White Paradigm, 108 Yale Law Journal 2385 (1999), reprinted in Blacks and Asians (Hazel M. McFerson, ed., Carolina Academic Press) (2005) and Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary Reader (2d & 3d eds.) (Min Zhou et al., eds., NYU Press) (2007 & 2016)