Kimberly Yuracko is a nationally recognized expert in antidiscrimination law and student speech protections. Her forthcoming book, Sex and Sports, explores the legal, medical and ethical issues relating to transgender girls' participation in girls' sports. Her work (with Max Schanzenbach) explores the nature of the university-student relationship including contractual, statutory and constitutional student speech protections.
Yuracko is the Judd and Mary Morris Leighton Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. She received her J.D. from Stanford Law School and her Ph.D (Political Science) from Stanford University. She is the former dean of Northwestern Law School and former Associate Provost for Special Projects for Northwestern University. She has published widely in top law reviews and has placed op-eds concerning higher education in the Chicago Tribune, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Education and Bloomberg.