Her recent research has explored the risks of unfairness and bias as automated decision-processes are incorporated into firms’ personnel decision-making and the legal challenges posed by these technological developments. She is currently examining the role of technological intermediaries in shaping labor markets, and the possibilities for artificially intelligent systems to avoid human biases in making personnel decisions.

Professor Kim is a nationally recognized expert on the law governing the workplace and has written widely on issues affecting workers, including employee privacy, discrimination and job security, as well as about the role of courts and judicial decision-making. She co-authors one of the leading textbooks on employment law, Work Law: Cases and Materials. She is a member of the Labor Law Group and the American Law Institute and served as an Adviser to the ALI’s Restatement of Employment Law. She currently co-directs Washington University’s Center for Empirical Research in the Law.

Professor Kim is a graduate of Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges and was a Henry Fellow at New College, Oxford University. After earning her J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, she clerked for The Honorable Cecil F. Poole on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Following her clerkship, she was the Félix Velarde-Muñoz Fellow, and later a staff attorney, at the Employment Law Center/Legal Aid Society of San Francisco. She was the inaugural John S. Lehmann Research Professor, and served as the law school’s Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development from 2008-10.