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Affiliated

Faculty

JIM HAWKINS DAVID KWOK

Professor of Law and Alumnae College Professor in Law George A. Butler Research Professor
Co-Director, Criminal Justice Institute
B.A., Baylor University Associate Professor of Law
J.D., The University of Texas School of Law
B.S., Northwestern University
Jim Hawkins earned his J.D. from The University of M.P.P., University of California, Berkeley
Texas, where he was the Grand Chancellor and served as J.D., University of California, Berkeley
the Chief Articles Editor of the Texas Law Review. He has Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
published articles in the UCLA Law Review, the Minnesota
Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, the Washington and Lee David Kwok graduated Northwestern University
Law Review, the William and Mary Law Review, and the with a B.S. from the McCormick School of
Harvard Journal on Legislation, among other journals. His Engineering and received his law degree from the
papers have been selected for the Yale/Stanford/Harvard University of California, Berkeley School of Law,
Junior Faculty Forum and for the Petrie-Flom Center’s where he was elected to Order of the Coif. At
Annual Conference at Harvard Law School. Berkeley, he also received his Master’s Degree in
Public Policy from the Goldman School of Public
Professor Hawkins joined the University of Houston Law Policy and his Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social
Center after clerking for the Honorable Jerry E. Smith Policy.
of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and working
with the Houston office of Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP. After law school, Professor Kwok clerked for the
His research and teaching interests include consumer Honorable John T. Noonan, Jr. of the United States
borrowing, the fringe banking industry, and the fertility Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
business. His research has been featured in The Wall Street
Journal, The Washington Post, and other media outlets. Professor Kwok teaches and writes about white
collar crime, public policy, and law and the social
sciences.
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