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Education
- Seoul National University BA 2005
- JD Harvard Law School 2008
Biography
Professor Kim joined the Law School faculty in the spring 2021 semester as a visiting professor. Her primary research and teaching interests are in corporate law, corporate governance, financial regulation and contracts. Her scholarship examines how financial and technological innovations outpace governing laws and regulations, and her work aims to close these gaps.
Her recent paper, "Corporate Long Arms," explains how states like California and New York can serve as a laboratory for innovation and experimentation in corporate law, relying on a little known but powerful "long arm" provision contained in the states' corporate codes. This paper was selected for reprinting in the Corporate Practice Commentator (CPC).
Another pair of recent papers, "Typology of Public-Private Equity" and "De-Democratization of Firms," examines the decision of private equity funds to go public and its implications for retail investors and corporate democracy. Typology of Public-Private Equity was reprinted in the Securities Law Review.
Prior to law teaching, Professor Kim practiced law at Kirkland & Ellis in San Francisco and Shearman & Sterling in New York, where she specialized in the areas of debt finance and capital markets. She received her JD from Harvard Law School and her BA in Economics, summa cum laude, from Seoul National University. She is a member of the New York and California bars.
Professor Kim was recently invited to join the program committee of Cryptoeconomic Systems, a journal and conference series launched by MIT Media Lab's Digital Currency Initiative. Her talk on "Lessons from Corporate Personhood for the Intelligence Age" at the 2019 Cryptoeconomic Systems Summit can be viewed here.
Professor Kim is also the inaugural Faculty Director of the Korea Law Center at the University of California, Irvine, School of Law and has served in this role since 2016. The mission of the Korea Law Center is to promote practical solutions to problems arising at the intersection of US and Korean laws. In recognition of her service to the Korean community, Professor Kim received the Trailblazer Award from the Orange County Korean American Bar Association (OC KABA) in 2016.