Rate My Professor Kimberly Bailey

Professor Kimberly D. Bailey serves as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. She earned a BA with highest distinction from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, and a JD cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School, where she was a Clarence Darrow Scholar, associate editor, and contributing editor of the Michigan Law Review. Prior to joining the University of Cincinnati Law faculty in 2023 as Professor of Law with tenure, she was Associate Professor of Law and Norman and Edna Freehling Scholar at Chicago-Kent College of Law, teaching courses in Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Evidence. Before that, Professor Bailey was a visiting scholar and Adjunct Professor at the University of Houston Law Center. Earlier in her career, she practiced labor and employment law at Fulbright and Jaworski in Houston, Texas.

Professor Bailey's scholarly research centers on how social, political, and economic inequities are reflected in the law, with particular emphasis on gender violence—including intimate partner violence, rape, and sexual harassment—privacy rights, and the aggressive surveillance of communities of color. Her areas of interest include gender violence, criminal law, criminal procedure, and evidence. At the University of Cincinnati College of Law, she teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Law, Gender, and Sexuality. Professor Bailey's articles have been published in numerous prestigious law reviews and journals, such as the University of Illinois Law Review, Florida Law Review, The Journal of Gender, Race and Justice, UC Davis Law Review, American Criminal Law Review, Washington University Journal of Law and Policy, the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, and the BYU Law Review. Key publications include "Trying to Fit in to Get In: Women Working in a Masculinities World," 2023 U. Ill. L. Rev. 537; "Male Same-Sex 'Horseplay': The Epicenter of Sexual Harassment," 73 Fla. L. Rev. 95 (2021); and "Sex in a Masculinities World: Gender, Undesired Sex, and Rape," 21 J. Gender Race & Just. 281 (2018).