Suzanne A. Kim is Professor of Law and Judge Denny Chin Scholar at Rutgers Law School at Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey. She recently served as Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Center on Asian Americans and the Law, the first center of its kind in the United States, at Fordham University School of Law in New York City. She has served as a Visiting Professor at National Taiwan University College of Law, Visiting Scholar at Columbia University School of Law and Emory University School of Law, and as a Visiting Researcher at Lund University in Sweden. She is the Founder and Director of the Center for Gender Justice and the Law at Rutgers University. She has presented her research throughout the United States and in Europe, Canada, and Asia, including as the endowed Ihlenfeld Lecturer at West Virginia University.
Professor Kim is Chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section (AALS) Section on Law and Social Sciences and as an executive committee member of the AALS Section on Family and Juvenile Law. Professor Kim was previously appointed to the Chancellor’s Commission on Diversity and Transformation of Rutgers University-Newark and has served as an Executive Committee member of the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University and as a member of the Advisory Committee of the Rutgers University-Newark P3 Collaboratory for Pedagogy, Professional Development, and Publicly-Engaged Scholarship. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Asian American Bar Association of New York and was previously appointed by the Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court to the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Minority Concerns. She is an elected member of the American Bar Foundation and is a past winner of the Association of American Law Schools Women in Legal Education New Voices in Gender Studies Prize.
Formerly a litigation associate with Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York, Suzanne Kim received the firm’s Pro Bono Service Award. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable Denny Chin, then of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and now of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty, Professor Kim was a lecturer-in-law at Stanford Law School in what is now the Thomas C. Grey Fellowship program. Professor Kim earned a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.