Jerry Kang is the Ralph and Shirley Shapiro Distinguished Professor of Law and Distinguished Professor of Asian American Studies. He served as the inaugural Korea Times – Hankook Ilbo Endowed Chair in Korean American Studies and Law (2010-20).

I am a legal academic who thinks about “technologies” understood very broadly. Half of my work deals with communications and the internet, on matters such as privacy, pervasive computing, and virtual communities. The other half deals with civil rights and race, which I view as a social-cognitive technology that I’m trying to hack. I’m probably best known for my work and talks on ...

Mar 13, 2011 · I sometimes get inquiries from folks about implicit bias. I’ve written quite a bit about the subject. Here’s a guide on which articles you might want to read.

Greg Robinson, Jerry Kang, & Hiroshi Motomura, A Symposium on Greg Robinson’s A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America, 15 UCLA Asian Pac. Am. L.J. 6 (2010) (edited transcript).

Abstract: “Implicit bias” was not well known in legal communities twenty years ago. But now, the idea of implicit bias circulates widely in both popular and academic discussions. Even the casually interested judge knows a great deal about the topic. Still, even as the problem of implicit bias has grown familiar, potential solutions remain out of focus. Specifically, what can judges do ...

Jul 12, 2024 · Jerry Kang is the Ralph and Shirley Shapiro Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA. He graduated magna cum laude from both Harvard College (physics) and Harvard Law School, where he was a supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Abstract In this article, I examine the complex relationship between affirmative action and discrimination against Asian Americans in college admissions, focusing on the 2023 Supreme Court decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. I argue that while the Court effectively ended race-conscious admissions, this decision fails to address—and perhaps obscures—the core factors that ...

Jul 23, 2023 · This is the best casebook I have purchased for a [Harvard Law School] class and is the best investment I have made in books in my three years here. Anonymous Teaching Evaluation, Harvard Law Student, Spring 2004 Version …

Implicit Bias Primer for Courts This primer (download full document) was written for the Race & Ethnic Fairness in the Courts project of the National Center for State Courts.

It’s just that I understand “technology” very broadly–not only in terms of computers and communications, but also the cognitive processes of our brains. Indeed, I view race as socio-cognitive technology, and I view my work as a sort of academic “hacking” of …