Suzanne A. Kim is the associate dean of Academic Research Centers. Her scholarship addresses intersections of family, gender,
sexuality, race, ethnicity, and culture from legal and sociolegal
perspectives.
She is a professor of law and Judge Denny Chin Scholar at
Rutgers Law School. Professor Kim has served as associate dean for faculty development at Rutgers Law. A recipient of the Dream Professor
Award from the Association of Black Law Students at Rutgers Law,
Professor Kim has been a visiting scholar at Emory University's
interdisciplinary Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative and
Columbia Law School's Center for Gender and Sexuality Law, and has also
taught at Fordham Law School. She is the founding director of the
interdisciplinary Rutgers Center for Gender, Sexuality, Law, and Policy and a faculty affiliate of the Department of African American
and African Studies at Rutgers University-Newark.
Professor Kim has served as an appointed member of the New Jersey
Supreme Court Committee on Minority Concerns. She has practiced law as a
litigation associate with Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York and
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.
A member of the Community Advisory Board of the Center for Urban
Youth and Families of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Professor
Kim also serves on the Executive Committee of the Institute for Research
on Women at Rutgers University. Professor Kim is a member of the board
of advisors of the nonprofit organization Unchained at Last.
Professor Kim earned a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.