Associate Professor of Legal Writing
J.D. Syracuse University College of LawM.P.A. American University, School of Public AffairsB.A. American University, School of Public Affairs
Louis Jim is an Associate Professor of Legal Writing. Previously, he taught legal writing at Brooklyn Law School, where he served as faculty advisor to the Moot Court Honor Society and Prince Evidence Competition. He was also on the faculty of Albany Law School, where he received the Friend of the Graduating Class of 2021 Award and the 2020 Justina Cintron Perino Award for service to the moot court program.
Professor Jim is active in the Asian American academic community. He served as Co-Chair of the Academic Committee of the Asian American Bar Association of New York; authored the hypothetical for the 2021 Thomas Tang Moot Court Competition; and moderated a panel on Amplifying Asian Voices as faculty advisor to Albany Law’s Asian Pacific American Law Students Association.
Before entering academia, Professor Jim practiced law in the private and public sectors. He served as an Assistant Attorney General in the New York State Attorney General’s Office, where he defended state agencies and state employees in federal and state courts, focusing on constitutional law, civil rights, employment discrimination, and administrative law. While at the Attorney General’s Office, he co-created the Attorney General Litigation Bureau Apprenticeship at Albany Law School and received the Lefkowitz Award for outstanding performance as a member of the defense team in a major First Amendment case.
He has also served an associate attorney at Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC, where he practiced commercial, tort, and estate litigation. Immediately after law school, he completed a judicial clerkship with the Honorable Neal P. McCurn of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York.
Professor Jim is a graduate of the Syracuse University College of Law, where he was the Form and Accuracy Editor of the Syracuse Law Review. His student note, “'Over-Kill': The Ramifications of Applying New York’s Anti-Terrorism Statute Too Broadly," 60 Syracuse L. Rev. 639 (2010), was cited by the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court in People v. Morales, 924 N.Y.S.2d 62 (App. Div. 2011).