Jerry Kang

Jerry Kang is a professor in the UCLA School of Law and an expert on race and diversity with a specific focus on the intersection of implicit bias and the law. In spring 2015, Kang was named as UCLA’s first vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion. Kang’s scholarship has aimed to import recent scientific findings from the mind sciences into legal discourse and policymaking.

Kang, who was the inaugural Korea Times-Hankook Ilbo Chair in Korean American Studies and Law (2010-2020), helped found the law school’s Concentration for Critical Race Studies, the first program of its kind in American legal education in which students examine the intersection between race and the law.

As a scholar of communications, Kang has published on the topics of privacy, pervasive computing, social cognitive analyses of mass media policy and cyber-race (the techno-social construction of race in cyberspace). He is an author of a leading casebook in the field.

He is also a professor of Asian American studies and an expert on Asian American communities, and has written about hate crimes, affirmative action, the Japanese American internment, and its lessons for the “War on Terror.”