Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law Pauline Kim has been elected to the 2024 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together. The work of the academy has helped set the direction of research and analysis in science and technology policy, global security and international affairs, social policy, education, the humanities, and the arts.
The 250 members elected in 2024 are being recognized for their excellence and invited to uphold the Academy’s mission of engaging across disciplines and divides. “We honor these artists, scholars, scientists, and leaders in the public, non-profit, and private sectors for their accomplishments and for the curiosity, creativity, and courage required to reach new heights,” said David Oxtoby, President of the Academy. “We invite these exceptional individuals to join in the Academy’s work to address serious challenges and advance the common good.”
Professor Pauline Kim is a renowned expert on the law governing the workplace, and she has published dozens of articles and book chapters on issues affecting workers such as privacy, discrimination, and job security, as well as co-authoring one of the leading textbooks on employment law, “Work Law: Cases and Materials.” She currently directs WashU’s Center for Empirical Research in the Law, is a member of the Labor Law Group and the American Law Institute, where she served as an Adviser on the Restatement of Employment Law. She holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Sociology and is a faculty affiliate at the Center for Race, Ethnicity, and Equity, and the Cordell Institute.
Professor Pauline Kim earned her AB and JD from Harvard University, and was a Henry Fellow at New College, Oxford University. Before joining the faculty, she clerked for the Honorable Cecil F. Poole on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Following her clerkship, she was the Félix Velarde-Muñoz Fellow, and later a staff attorney, at the Employment Law Center/Legal Aid Society of San Francisco (now Legal Aid at Work), where she represented low-income workers. In 2007-08, she was the inaugural John S. Lehmann Research Professor at Washington University Law School, and from 2008-2010, she served as the law school’s Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development.
Recent scholarship from Professor Pauline Kim includes “Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Algorithmic Management, and Labor Law,” forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of the Law of Work and “Less Discriminatory Algorithms,” forthcoming in the Georgetown Law Journal. “Race-Aware Algorithms: Fairness, Nondiscrimination and Affirmative Action,” was published in the California Law Review. Other recent publications are available here.
