Kathleen C. Kim
Associate 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, Aurora Las Encinas Hospital
"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).
"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).
"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", funded by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, Department of Health and Human Services, published by the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, available at (co-author).
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