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John S. Lehmann Research Professor and Professor of Law
Expertise: civil procedure, employment law, pretrial procedure, racial discrimination in employment, sexual discrimination in employment, disability discrimination, employment discrimination law, predicting Supreme Court decision-making, The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, employment at will
Bio:
Kim specializes in employment law,employment discrimination law, the litigation process and the role of the courts. She teaches courses in civil procedure, employment law and pretrial practice and procedure. Kim is one of the researchers on the Supreme Court Forecasting Project and one of the co-founders and organizers of the Workshop on Empirical Research in Law (WERL), an interdisciplinary faculty workshop at Washington University.
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Education:
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A.B. at Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges
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J.D. at Harvard University

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Presaging the Supremes
 Supreme Court decisions predicted by online computer program

Nov. 5,
2003 --
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| Supreme Court cases are now predictable, thanks to new computer model. |
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As the U.S. Supreme Court moves into its new term, litigants, attorneys and the public will be closely watching its docket and speculating about its decisions. Now, thanks to the Supreme Court Forecasting Project at Washington University in St. Louis, court watchers everywhere will be able to log on to the Internet and obtain a forecast of how individual cases are likely to be decided. The project accurately predicted decisions in 75 percent of the cases heard by the Court in its last term.

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Additional Background: After earning her J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, Kim worked as a judicial clerk. She later worked as a Velarde-Munoz Fellow and staff attorney at the Employment Law Center/Legal Aid Society of San Francisco, where she litigated cases involving race, sex and disability discriminination, racial and sexual harassment, and unlawful working conditions. Kim is a member of the American Law Institute and an Advisor to ALI's Restatement of Employment Law. She currently serves on the advisory board of the School of Law's Center for Interdisciplinary Studies and is a member of the MIssouri Asian-American Bar Association.
Recent Publications
Articles
" "The Supreme Court Forecasting Project: Legal and Political Science Appproaches to Predicting Supreme Court DEcision Making," forthcoming in Columbia Law Review, Vol. 104 (May 2004) (with Theodore Ruger, Andrew Martin and Kevin Quinn"
* "The Colorblind Lottery," 72 Fordham Law Review 9 (2003)
* "Genetic Discrimination, Genetic Privacy: Rethinking Employee Protections for a Brave New Workplace," 96 Northwestern University Law Review 1497 (2002)
* "Norms, Learning and Law: Exploring the Influences on Workers' Legal Knowledge," 1999 University of Illinois Law Review 447 (1999)
* "Cynicism, Reconsidered," 76 Washington University Law Quarterly 193 (1998)
* "Bargaining with Imperfect Information: A Study of Worker Perceptions of Legal Protection in an At-Will World," 83 Cornell Law Review 105 (1997)
* "An Empirical Challenge to Employment at Will," 23 New Zealand Journal of Industrial Relations 91 (1998)
* "Privacy Rights, Public Policy and the Employment Relationship," 57 Ohio State Law Journal 671 (1996)
Works in Progress
* "The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993: Ten Years Later," Symposium Introduction, forthcoming in the Washington University Journal of Law & Policy (2004)
* WORKLAW, Casebook with Marion Crane & Michael Selmi, Lexis Publishing (forthcoming Fall 2004)
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