Professor Sung Hui Kim

Sung Hui Kim is the Vice Dean for Curricular and Academic Affairs. She has taught Business Associations, Contracts, Professional Responsibility, Securities Regulation, and seminars on the psychology of modern legal practice and legal ethics. She has written on a wide range of topics, including the role of in-house counsel in corporate compliance, cognitive science and the legal profession, fiduciary law, public and private corruption, insider trading law, neorepublican legal ethics, social psychology of ethical decision-making, the role of gatekeepers in securities regulation, sovereign debt, and supermajority provisions in the U.S. Constitution. Co-authored books include PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY: A CONTEMPORARY APPROACH (5th ed. West Academic Press 2023), FIDUCIARY GOVERNMENT (Cambridge University Press 2018), and CAN DELAWARE BE DETHRONED? EVALUATING DELAWARE’S DOMINANCE OF CORPORATE LAW (Cambridge University Press 2018).

Her scholarship has appeared in both peer-reviewed and student-edited publications, such as Capital Markets Law Journal, Cornell Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Michigan Law Review, Oxford University Press, UCLA Law Review, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Securities Law Review, and University of Chicago Press. She holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, cum laude, and a B.A., summa cum laude, and M.A. in History from Emory University. Prior to law school, she was a Henry Luce Foundation Scholar in South Korea. Following law school, she was a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow in Germany. After six years in private practice as a transactional lawyer, she joined Red Bull North America, Inc. as its first general counsel and served for four years prior to making the transition to law teaching.  In 2005, she joined the Southwestern Law School and in 2010 joined the faculty of the UCLA School of Law. From 2013-14, she was an Emile Noël Fellow of the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice, NYU School of Law. She serves on the Organizing Committee of the Fiduciary Law Workshop.