Kathleen C. Kim
Professor of Law
Contact Information
Phone: (213) 736-1316
E-mail: Kathleen.Kim@lls.edu
919 Albany St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211
Educational and Professional Background
BA, University of Michigan, with High Distinction
JD, Stanford Law School
Before joining Loyola Law School, Kathleen Kim pioneered civil litigation on behalf of human trafficking survivors at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco. She launched and directed the Human Trafficking Project as a Skadden Fellow, the first of its kind to focus on the civil rights of trafficked individuals to receive monetary compensation for the abuse of forced labor. In 2005, Kathleen became the inaugural Immigrants' Rights Teaching Fellow at Stanford Law School where she taught and supervised law students in the representation of indigent immigrants in deportation proceedings and other immigration matters. Kathleen co-directs the Anti-Trafficking Litigation Assistance and Support Team (ATLAST) and is a gubernatorial appointee to the California Alliance to Combat Trafficking and Slavery coordinated by the California Attorney General's office. She has published several works providing critical perspectives on the impact of United States' policies and practices on the rights of immigrants and human trafficking survivors. Kathleen received her J.D. from Stanford Law School where she was an associate editor of Stanford Law Review and a Judge M. Takasugi Public Interest Fellow.
Professional Memberships and Activities
Member, California Alliance to Combat Trafficking and Slavery Task Force
Executive Advisory Council Member, Asian Pacific American Legal Center
Board Member, Korean American Bar Association
The Coercion of Trafficked Workers, 96 Iowa Law Review 409 (2011) (lead article).
The Trafficked Worker as Private Attorney General: A Model for Enforcing the Civil Rights of Undocumented Workers, 2009 University of Chicago Legal Forum 247 (2009).
Reconceptualizing Approaches to Human Trafficking: New Directions and Perspectives from the Field(s), 3 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties 317 (2007) (co-author).
Psychological Coercion in the Context of Modern-Day Involuntary Labor: Revisiting U.S. v. Kozminski and Understanding Human Trafficking, 38 University of Toledo Law Review 941 (2007).
Human Trafficking Private Right of Action: Civil Rights for Trafficked Persons in the United States, 16 Hastings Women’s Law Journal 1 (2004) (co-author).
Civil Litigation on Behalf of Victims of Human Trafficking, Third Edition, available at http://library.lls.edu/atlast/ (2008) (co-author)
Conversations with Two Anti-Trafficking Advocates, 1 Los Angeles Public Interest Law Journal 31 (2009) (co-author).
Presenter, “Charting the Future of Employee Rights Advocacy: Trafficking Civil Litigation,” National Employment Lawyers’ Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana (June 29, 2011)
Presenter, "Human Trafficking: Facts and Possible Responses," Center for Ignatian Spirituality, Loyola Marymount University, Westchester, California (April 8, 2011)
Presenter, “Combating Human Trafficking – How Coordinating International, Federal and State Law Can Prevent and Punish Exploitation While Protecting Victims,” Arizona State University College of Law, Tempe, Arizona (March 11, 2011)
Panelist, “Immigrants and Work,” UCI Law School, Irvine, California (Feb. 18, 2011)
Presenter, “Human Trafficking Symposium,” Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, California (Jan. 22, 2011)
Panelist, “Comprehensive Immigration Reform,” National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, California (Nov. 19, 2010)
Presenter, “Immigration and the Constitution,” Loyola Marymount University, Westchester, California (Sept. 16, 2010)
Panelist, “The Rights of Others: Immigrants as Workers, Colonial Subjects and Trafficking Survivors,” Law and Society, Chicago, Illinois (May 28, 2010)
Panelist, “New Immigration Law Teachers,” Immigration Law Teacher’s Conference, DePaul University School of Law, Chicago, Illinois (May 25, 2010)
Presenter, “Human Trafficking in Los Angeles: Local Discussions and New Collaborative Directions in Anti-Trafficking Work and Research," UCLA Center for the Study of Women, Los Angeles, CA (May 14, 2010)
Presenter, “The Coercion of Trafficked Workers,” Faculty Workshop Series, UCI Law School, Irvine, California (April 7, 2010)
Panelist, “Unauthorized Migrants: Regulation, Resistance, and Retheorization,” Critical Race Theory Symposium, UCLA Law School, Los Angeles, California (March 13, 2010)
Plenary Panelist, “Immigration and Crime,” Joint Conference on Asian Pacific American Law Faculty and Western Law Teachers Conference, University of Arizona College of Law, Tuscon, Arizona (March 5, 2010)
Panelist, “Trafficking, Slavery and Forced Migration,” University of La Verne Law School Immigration Symposium, Ontario, California (February 19, 2010)
Presenter, “Human Trafficking Summit,” University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California (Oct. 23, 2009)
Presenter, “Human Trafficking,” Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal, University of California Hastings School of Law, San Francisco, California (October 16, 2009)
"Transnational Flows of Labor: Exploitation and Opportunity in the Global Economy," University of Iowa Provost's Forum for International Affairs, Iowa City, Iowa (March 6, 2009)
Panelist, "The Evolving Definition of the Immigrant Worker: The Intersection Between Employment, Labor, and Human Rights Law," University of San Francisco Law Review, University of San Francisco Law School, San Francisco, CA (February 27, 2009)
Panelist, Film Screening of "Holly", Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA (January 6, 2009)
Panelist, "Civil Rights and the Low Wage Worker," The University of Chicago Legal Forum, University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL (November 14, 2008)
Presenter, "Civil Remedies for Human Trafficking Victims," American Bar Association, Washington DC (October 3, 2008)
Presenter, “Trafficking in Persons Civil Litigation,” District of Columbia Bar Association, Washington DC (June 20, 2008)
Panelist, “Criminalization of the Sex Trade,” Soros Justice Fellows Conference, San Francisco, CA (June 16, 2008)
Discussant, “Trafficking of Women in Post-Communist Europe,” Stanford Forum on Contemporary Europe, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (April 18, 2008)
Public Lecture, “Trafficking, Gender, Human Rights, and Health,” Center for the Study of Women, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (March 4, 2008)
Expert Briefing, “California Alliance to Combat Trafficking and Slavery Report,” Sacramento, CA (December 4, 2007) (www.safestate.org/humantrafficking)
Presenter, “Damages,” Journal of Transnational Law and Policy, Human Trafficking Symposium, Florida State University School of Law, Tallahassee, FL (November 8, 2007)
Presenter, “Trade” Premiere, Global Fund for Women, San Francisco, CA (September 19, 2007) (http://www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=22546)
Presenter, “Advancing Freedom: New Strategies in Addressing Human Trafficking,” 3rd Annual Freedom Network Conference, Miami, Florida (May 17, 2007)
Presenter, “Immigrants in the Workplace,” Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Immigration Symposium, Stanford, California (February 10, 2007)
Presenter, “Debating the US-Mexico Border: Multi-Dimensional Security Issues Challenge New Administrations,” Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California (November 18, 2006)
Panelist, “Human Trafficking and Trafficking Civil Litigation,” National Legal Aid and Defender Association Annual Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina (November 10, 2006)
Presenter, “Revisiting U.S. v. Kozminski: Psychological Coercion in the Context of Forced Labor,” University of Toledo College of Law, Thirteenth Amendment Symposium, Toledo, Ohio (October 13, 2006)
Presenter, “Invisible Chains: Human Trafficking and Forced Labor in the United States,” University of San Francisco School of Law, Center for Law and Global Justice Symposium, San Francisco, CA (2006)
Expert Testimony, California State Senate and Assembly Public Safety Committees, Sacramento, CA (2005)
Panelist, “The Slavery of the 21st Century: The Global Trafficking of Women and Girls,” Stanford Law School, Shaking the Foundations: West Coast Conference on Progressive Lawyering, Stanford, CA (2005)
Panelist, “A Labor Perspective on How to Identify and Combat Human Trafficking,” 5th National Low-Income Immigrant Rights Conference, Washington D.C. (2005)
Panelist, “Human Trafficking in the Labor Context,” State Bar of California Annual Spring Summit, Pathways to Justice, San Francisco, CA (2005)
Torts, Immigration Law, Immigrants' Rights, and Human Trafficking