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Description:
Professor of Law Loyola Law School Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles, California, USA
Experience, Background and Services:
Professor Kathleen Kim is a legal expert on immigrants’ rights and human trafficking. Her scholarship investigates the intersection of immigration law, workplace rights, civil rights and the 13th Amendment, and has appeared in the UCLA Law Review, Iowa Law Review, and University of Chicago Law Forum, among others. She is co-author of Human Trafficking Law & Policy, the leading casebook on human trafficking in the United States. Professor Kim is also the founding faculty supervisor of the Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic, the primary pro bono immigration service provider for indigent noncitizens residing on the east side of Los Angeles.
Before joining the Loyola faculty in 2007, Kim was awarded a Skadden Fellowship in 2002 to launch the first legal services project in the nation dedicated to representing the civil rights of trafficked workers. She co-authored Civil LItigation on Behalf of Victims of Human Trafficking, the principal technical assistance guide for attorneys representing trafficked plaintiffs in civil litigation. In 2005, she became the inaugural Immigrants’ Rights Teaching Fellow at Stanford Law School where she taught and supervised law students in cases involving deportation defense and humanitarian immigration relief. A co-author of California’s anti-trafficking law, Kim also served as a gubernatorial appointee to the first California Department of Justice Alliance to Combat Trafficking and Slavery. From 2013-2016, Professor Kim was a Los Angeles Police Commissioner where she helped to reform departmental policies and practices to expand protections for immigrant victims of crime. In 2014, Los Angeles Magazine named her one of Los Angeles' ten most inspiring women. In 2016, The National Jurist selected her as one of twenty law professor "Leaders in Diversity."
Professor Kim serves on the Advisory Board of Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking and is a board member of Asian Americans Advancing Justice Los Angeles. In addition to her teaching and scholarship, Professor Kim continues to provides technical assistance and expert testimony in trafficking cases and policy guidance to governmental and non-governmental groups.
Professor Kim received her JD from Stanford Law School in 2002 where she was a Judge Takasugi Public Interest Fellow and an editor for the Stanford Law Review. She received her BA in Philosophy with highest honors from the University of Michigan in 1998.
- Adult Entertainment
- Construction
- Debt Bondage
- Domestic Servitude
- Forced Criminality
- Forced Labour
- General
- Hotel & Retail
- Manufacturing
- Prostitution & Sex Slavery
- Sex Trafficking
Description:
Professor of Law Loyola Law School Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles, California, USA
Experience, Background and Services:
Professor Kathleen Kim is a legal expert on immigrants’ rights and human trafficking. Her scholarship investigates the intersection of immigration law, workplace rights, civil rights and the 13th Amendment, and has appeared in the UCLA Law Review, Iowa Law Review, and University of Chicago Law Forum, among others. She is co-author of Human Trafficking Law & Policy, the leading casebook on human trafficking in the United States. Professor Kim is also the founding faculty supervisor of the Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic, the primary pro bono immigration service provider for indigent noncitizens residing on the east side of Los Angeles.
Before joining the Loyola faculty in 2007, Kim was awarded a Skadden Fellowship in 2002 to launch the first legal services project in the nation dedicated to representing the civil rights of trafficked workers. She co-authored Civil LItigation on Behalf of Victims of Human Trafficking, the principal technical assistance guide for attorneys representing trafficked plaintiffs in civil litigation. In 2005, she became the inaugural Immigrants’ Rights Teaching Fellow at Stanford Law School where she taught and supervised law students in cases involving deportation defense and humanitarian immigration relief. A co-author of California’s anti-trafficking law, Kim also served as a gubernatorial appointee to the first California Department of Justice Alliance to Combat Trafficking and Slavery. From 2013-2016, Professor Kim was a Los Angeles Police Commissioner where she helped to reform departmental policies and practices to expand protections for immigrant victims of crime. In 2014, Los Angeles Magazine named her one of Los Angeles' ten most inspiring women. In 2016, The National Jurist selected her as one of twenty law professor "Leaders in Diversity."
Professor Kim serves on the Advisory Board of Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking and is a board member of Asian Americans Advancing Justice Los Angeles. In addition to her teaching and scholarship, Professor Kim continues to provides technical assistance and expert testimony in trafficking cases and policy guidance to governmental and non-governmental groups.
Professor Kim received her JD from Stanford Law School in 2002 where she was a Judge Takasugi Public Interest Fellow and an editor for the Stanford Law Review. She received her BA in Philosophy with highest honors from the University of Michigan in 1998.
