Michael S. Kang

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Michael S. Kang (born 12 June 1973) is an American legal scholar.

Kang earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago in 1993, and his J.D. degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1999. [1] He also holds a master's degree from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. [2] While on the faculty of the Emory University School of Law, Kang received the David J. Bederman Research Professorship in October 2015, [3] was considered a highly cited legal scholar in a 2016 analysis by Gregory Sisk, [4] and was named Thomas Simmons Professor of Law in 2017. [5] He later joined Northwestern University's Pritzker School of Law as William G. and Virginia K. Karnes Research Professor of Law. [2] After Kimberly Yuracko stepped down from the deanship at Pritzker in 2020, Kang was named to a search committee tasked with naming a successor. [6] In 2021, Kang served on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. [7] [8]

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