Jerry Kang

Who is Jerry Kang?

Jerry Kang is Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. He is also Professor of Asian American Studies at UCLA, and the inaugural Korea Times — Hankook Ilbo Chair in Korean American Studies.

Professor of Law

Prof. of Asian American Studies, by courtesy

Korea Times–Hankook Ilbo Chair in Korean American Studies

Born Seoul, South Korea, 1968

A.B. Harvard University, magna cum laude, Physics, 1990

J.D. Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, 1993

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.

On communications, Professor Kang has published on the topics of privacy, pervasive computing, mass media policy, and cyber-race.