Rosa  Kim

Biography

Prior to joining the legal academy, Professor Kim served as an Assistant Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the Civil Trial Division litigating cases in the areas of civil rights, torts, and employment law, and also practiced as a litigation associate at the Boston firm of Rubin and Rudman. At Suffolk Law, Professor Kim teaches Legal Practice Skills and Advanced Legal Writing: Advocacy in an International Context.

Professor Kim has held an appointment as Visiting Professor at Boston College Law School, and has also taught at Boston University School of Law and Brandeis University. She has taught abroad extensively, including in Korea, Spain, Sweden, and as a Fulbright Scholar in Italy.

Professor Kim’s research interests focus on Korean law reform, global legal education, and legal writing pedagogy. Her writings include the articles Globalizing the Law Curriculum for Twenty-First-Century-Lawyering, appearing in the Journal of Legal Education, and the “Americanization” of Legal Education in South Korea: Challenges and Opportunities, published in the Brooklyn Journal of International Law.

Professor Kim is a past Chair of the Association of American Law Schools’ Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research Section and Co-Chair of the Legal Writing Institute’s Global Lawyering Committee. She was recognized with a Global Legal Skills Award at the Global Legal Skills Conference XIV. Professor Kim is active in promoting diversity within the legal academy, and co-founded the Asian Pacific American Legal Writing Professors Collective.

Education

• JD, Boston College Law School
• MA, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies
• BA, Tufts University

Selected Publications

Articles

• Rosa Kim & Katrina Lee, Asian American Inclusion in Legal Academia, MICH. ST. L. REV.: MSLR FORUM (Mar. 31, 2022).
• Globalizing the Law Curriculum for Twenty-First-Century Lawyering, 67 J. LEGAL EDUC. 905 (Summer 2018).
• A Benchmark in Asian Judicial Reform: The New Korean Jury System, 33 SUFFOLK TRANSNAT L REV. 281 (2015)
• Lightening the Cognitive Load: Maximizing Learning in the Legal Writing Classroom, 21 :2 PERSPECTIVES: TEACHING LEGAL RESEARCH AND WRITING 101 (2013)
• The "Americanization" of Legal Education in South Korea: Challenges and Opportunities, 38 BROOK. J. INT'L L. 49 (2012)

Book Chapters

Legal Education Reform in South Korea: Challenges of Transition, in LEGAL EDUCATION IN ASIA (Shuvro Sarker ed. 2013)

Media

• Katrina Lee & Rosa Kim, Dispelling the Asian American Monolith Myth in U.S. Law Schools, LSSSE: INSIGHTS BLOG (May 20, 2022), https://lssse.indiana.edu/blog/dispelling-the-asian-american-monolith-myth-in-u-s-law-schools/.
• Challenging Law Students to Become Active Learners, TEACHLAWBETTER BLOG (August 10, 2017)
• Infusing International Law into Advanced Legal Writing, LEGAL WRITING MATTERS BLOG (August 25, 2016)