Kimberly A. Yuracko
Professor of Law
Phone: (312) 503-3466
E-mail: k-yuracko@law.northwestern.edu
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Kimberly Yuracko joined the Northwestern Law faculty in 2002 after serving as a visiting assistant professor for the 2001-02 academic year. Her primary research interests are in antidiscrimination law with a focus on sex discrimination in employment and gender equity in athletics. She teaches courses in employment law, property, and family law. Her book Perfectionism and Contemporary Feminist Values was published in 2003 by Indiana University Press.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Employment Law
- Family Law
- Property
- Women and the Law
PUBLICATIONS
Representative Publications
- CASES AND MATERIALS ON FEMINIST JURISPRUDENCE: TAKING WOMEN SERIOUSLY, West Law School Publishing, 3rd ed. 2006 (with Mary Becker, Cynthia Bowman, and Victoria Nourse)
- PERFECTIONISM AND CONTEMPORARY FEMINIST VALUES, Indiana University Press, 2003
- Trait Discrimination as Race Discrimination: An Argument About Assimilation, 74 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 365 (2006)
- Trait Discrimination as Sex Discrimination: An Argument Against Neutrality, 83 TEXAS L. REV.167 (2004)
- Private Nurses and Playboy Bunnies: Explaining Permissible Sex Discrimination, 92 CAL. L. REV. 147 (2004)
Recent Publications
- The Antidiscrimination Paradox: Why Sex Before Race?
- Is It Time for a Post Civil Rights Response to Racial Injustice?, 5 STANFORD JOURNAL OF CIVIL RIGHTS & CIVIL LIBERTIES 123-132 , 2009
- Education Off the Grid: Constitutional Constraints on Homeschooling, 96 CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW 123-184, 2008
- Education Off the Grid: Constitutional Constraints on Homeschooling, 2008
- Sameness, Subordination, and Perfectionism: Toward A More Complete Theory of Employment Discrimination Law , 43 SAN DIEGO LAW REVIEW 857-897, 2006
JOINT APPOINTMENTS
EDUCATION
- BA, Stanford University
- PhD, Stanford University
- JD, Stanford University
PRIOR APPOINTMENTS
- Associate, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Los Angeles 2001
- Law Clerk, Hon. Stanley Marcus, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 1999-2000
- Law Clerk, Hon. Gary L. Taylor, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, 1998-99
- Lecturer, University of California Irvine, Department of Political Science, 1999

