Sung Hui Kim is Acting Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. Her teaching areas include Business Associations, Contracts, Securities Regulation and Professional Responsibility.
Professor Kim earned her bachelor's (summa cum laude) and master's degrees in history from Emory University in 1988. Her master’s thesis, a history of the supermajority provisions in the U.S. Constitution, was later distilled into an article and subsequently published by the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. After graduation, she spent the following year serving as the Program Officer of the Asiatic Research Center, Korea University, supported by the Henry Luce Foundation Scholarship. She then attended Harvard Law School where she graduated cum laude in 1992. She spent the following year in Germany on a fellowship supported by the Robert Bosch Foundation where she worked in the German Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt) and Berlin Cabinet of Ministers (Berlin Senatskanzlei).
In 1993, Professor Kim returned to the U.S. to begin her law practice in Washington, D.C. as a transactional lawyer focusing on mergers and acquisitions, private placements and public offerings. In 1995, she relocated her practice to Los Angeles, California, where she began providing legal advice to the North American subsidiary of Austrian-based Red Bull, whose energy drink was then being introduced in the U.S. Red Bull North America is currently the seventh largest beverage company in the U.S. In 1999, she joined Red Bull North America as its general counsel. As Red Bull's popularity surged and the company began marketing other beverages, including the Carpe Diem line of beverages and LunAqua, she supervised all of the company's U.S. legal matters.
Professor Kim has written about ethical issues facing transactional lawyers working in-house and in law firms and has explored how these lawyers can be leveraged not only to improve the efficiency of the capital markets but also to improve the state of corporate governance. Her scholarship has appeared in the Florida Law Review, Fordham Law Review, Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, North Carolina Law Review, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Securities Law Review, SMU Law Review, and University of Chicago Press.
Professor Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia.