Bio

• Professor of Law
• Prof. of Asian American Studies, by courtesy
• Born Seoul, South Korea, 1968
• A.B. Harvard University, magna cum laude, Physics, 1990
• J.D. Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, 1993
• Curriculum vitae (pdf)

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• Communications Law & Policy (3d ed. Foundation 2009)
• Fair Measures (Cal 2006)
• Trojan Horses of Race (Harvard 2005)
• Denying Prejudice: Internment, Redress, and Denial (UCLA 2004)
• Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment (Aspen 2001)
• Cyber-race (Harvard 2000)
• Information Privacy in Cyberspace Transactions (Stanford 1998)

 

 

Jerry Kang is Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. 

Professor Jerry Kang’s teaching and research interests include civil procedure, race, and communications. On race, he has focused on the nexus between implicit bias and the law, with the goal of advancing a "behavioral realism" that imports new scientific findings from the mind sciences into legal discourse and policymaking. He is also an expert on Asian American communities, and has written about hate crimes, affirmative action, the Japanese American internment, and its lessons for the “War on Terror.” He is a co-author of Race, Rights, and Reparation: The Law and the Japanese American Internment (Aspen 2001). 

On communications, Professor Kang has published on the topics of privacy, pervasive computing, mass media policy, and cyber-race (the techno-social construction of race in cyberspace). He is also the author of Communications Law & Policy: Cases and Materials (3rd edition Foundation 2008), a leading casebook in the field. His work regularly appears in leading journals, such as the UCLA, Stanford, and Harvard Law Reviews.

During law school, Professor Kang was a supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review and Special Assistant to Harvard University's Advisory Committee on Free Speech. After graduation, he clerked for Judge William A. Norris of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, then worked at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration on cyberspace policy.

He joined UCLA in Fall 1995 and was elected Professor of the Year in 1998 and received the Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2007. At UCLA, he helped found the Concentration for Critical Race Studies, the first program of its kind in American legal education and acted as its founding co-director for two years. He resumed leadership of the program in 2007.  During 2003-05, Prof. Kang visited at both Georgetown Law Center and Harvard Law School.

Prof. Kang is a member of the American Law Institute, has chaired the American Association of Law School’s Section on Defamation and Privacy, serves on the Board of Directors of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and has received numerous awards including the World Technology Award for Law and the Vice President’s “Hammer Award” for Reinventing Government.