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BAR ADMISSIONS:

 

State of Illinois

 

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, including member of the Trial Bar

 

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

 

U.S. Tax Court

 

U.S. Supreme Court

 

 

AFFILIATIONS:

 

Member - The Economic Club of Chicago

 

Past President- Asian American Bar Association

 

Past Member – Attorney General’s Asian American Advisory Committee

 

Past Board of Trustees- Barat College

 

Past Member – Chicago Bar Association, Development of the Law Committee

 

Past Board of Trustees – Legal Aid Society

 

Past Regional Governor – National Asian American Bar Association

 

Past Planning Committee – Northwestern University School of Law, Ray Garrett, Jr. Corporate and Securities Law Institute

 

Past Chair, Board of Trustees – Shimer College

 

Past Board of Directors - United Charities

PUBLICATIONS

Young Kim

Young Kim has practiced corporate, banking and real estate law for over 35 years. His practice has typically consisted of advising businesses, engaging in business planning and handling business transactions, including domestic as well as inward and outward-bound international business transactions. At two prior international law firms, Young was a partner and co-chair of the corporate practice group of one firm, and a partner and chair of the real estate practice group at the other firm. In addition, he has substantial litigation experience at all levels of the federal and state court systems, including one matter before the U.S. Supreme Court. Young is licensed in Illinois.

 

Young has also taught corporate and securities law and international investments at Northwestern University School of Law, as well as advanced contracts, business transactions, government regulation of business, and international business transactions at the University of Colorado School of Law. He has been honored as a Fulbright Senior Specialist (2007-2012) and has taught at the University of Luxembourg, Faculté des Droits et d’Économie et de Finance. His published books include Justice: Classical Foundations and Contemporary Debates (2018), and Justice as Right Actions (2015).

 

In activities related to his professional work, Young has served on the planning committee of the Northwestern University School of Law’s Corporate Law Institute, and on the Development of Law Committee of the Chicago Bar Association. He is a member of The Economic Club of Chicago, and previously served on the Board of United Charities, and the Board of the Legal Aid Bureau. He served on the Board of Barat College, and for three separate terms, Chair of the Board of Shimer College. He was President of the Asian American Bar Association for two terms, Regional Director of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, and on the Attorney General’s Asian American Advisory Board.

 

AWARDS, PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS AND OTHER HONORS

 

2018

Justice: Classical Foundations and Contemporary Disputes (Lexington Books)

 

2015

Justice as Right Actions (Lexington Books)

 

2007-2012

Fulbright Senior Specialist – Taught  corporate law, jurisprudence and constitutional law

theory at the University of Luxembourg (2009)

 

2009

International First Amendment Discussion Forum; Host: Faculté de Droit, d’Économie et de Finance, Université du Luxembourg; Presentation: “Rawls and Conflicting Liberties: U.S. and European Models”

 

2009

Colloquium Series of the University of Colorado School of Law; Host: The Faculty of the University of Colorado School of Law; Presentation: “Dworkin’s Sovereign Virtue: Luck Egalitarianism and the Auction”

 

2007

International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences; Host: Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain; Presentation: “Does Moral Pluralism Lead Ineluctably to Moral Relativism?”

 

1994, 1992

Chapter Author, “Drafting the Contract for the Purchase and Sale of a Business”

 

1998, 1996, 1992

Chapter Author, “Leasing Before Construction,”   Commercial Landlord Tenant (Ill. Inst. for CLE)

 

1998, 1996, 1992

Chapter Author, “Defaults and Remedies,” Commercial Landlord Tenant (Ill. Inst. for CLE)

 

 

EDUCATION

BA  |  JD  |  MSc

 

Young Kim received his B.A. degree in Philosophy and Social Sciences from Shimer College, where he graduated as Class Salutatorian. 

 

He received his JD degree from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law with Dean's List and Senior Honors.

 

At The London School of Economics and Political Science, he received an MSc degree with Merit in Political Theory.

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    Shimer College

    B.A. with Honors, Shimer College. Concentration in Philosophy and Social Sciences

  • Northwestern campus in downtown Chicago

    Northwestern University School of Law

    Dean’s List; Concentration in Corporate Law; Senior Honors Thesis: “Employee Appropriation of Business Opportunities”

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    The London School of Economics and Political Science

    M.Sc. in Political Theory with Merit, Dissertation title: “Mill and Raz: Moral Decision-Making”

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