Leah Kang

Leah Kang is a staff attorney at the ACLU of North Carolina where she works on a range of civil rights and racial justice issues. Prior to joining the ACLU, Professor Kang was a staff attorney at Forward Justice in Durham, North Carolina, and at Advancement Project, in Washington, D.C. Professor Kang clerked for the Honorable O. Rogeriee Thompson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and the Honorable Theodore D. Chuang of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.

Professor Kang has taught negotiation as a Special Topics Seminar Instructor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. While at Harvard Law School, Professor Kang also served on the teaching teams for the Harvard Law School Negotiation Workshop and for the Harvard Negotiation Institute’s executive education programs.

Before law school, Professor Kang had the immense privilege of teaching 5th grade for three years in a New York City public school.

Education

• Doctor of Law (JD) Harvard Law School (2009 — 2012)
• Bachelor of Arts (BA) Columbia University in the City of New York (2002 — 2006)

Companies

• Lecturer in Law University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (2021)
• Adjunct Professor Georgetown University Law Center (2014)
• Staff Attorney ACLU of North Carolina (2019 — 2021)
• Staff Attorney Forward Justice (2016 — 2019)
• Judicial Law Clerk United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (2015 — 2016)
• Judicial Law Clerk United States District Court for the District of Maryland (2014 — 2015)
• Staff Attorney Advancement Project (2012 — 2014)
• Teaching Assistant Harvard Law School (2011 — 2012)
• Clinical Law Student Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program (2011 — 2012)