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Jenny Kim serves as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law, where she teaches Legal Practice. Her academic appointment follows significant professional experience in immigrant rights advocacy and impact litigation across multiple legal institutions.
Her educational background includes:
- JD from University of Michigan Law School
- BA in Hispanic Studies from Columbia College, Columbia University
Professor Kim's research and practice focus on Immigration Law and Civil Rights, drawing from her frontline experience in immigrant advocacy. Her work integrates Impact Litigation methodologies with Legal Education frameworks, emphasizing social justice applications in clinical legal training. She specializes in bridging theoretical legal concepts with practical immigrant rights enforcement through community-based legal strategies.
Her teaching in Legal Practice incorporates methodologies developed during her tenure as inaugural Clinical Fellow at Duke University School of Law's Immigrant Rights Clinic, where she established foundational advocacy protocols. Prior to academia, her impact litigation work at the Amica Center for Immigrant Rights involved systemic challenges to immigration enforcement practices, while her roles at Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California and Church World Service centered on refugee resettlement and civil rights protection.
