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[PAST EVENT] "Law and Taboo Markets" | Professor Kimberly D. Krawiec, Duke University Law School
(excerpted from Professor Krawiec's Duke University biography page)
Kimberly Krawiec is an expert on corporate law who teaches courses on securities, corporate, and derivatives law. Her research interests span a variety of fields, including the empirical analysis of contract disputes; the choice of organizational form by professional service firms, including law firms; forbidden or taboo markets; corporate compliance systems; insider trading; derivatives hedging practices; and ?rogue? trading.
Prior to joining academia, Krawiec was a member of the Commodity & Derivatives Group at the New York office of Sullivan & Cromwell. She has served as a commentator for the Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (CEELI) of the American Bar Association and on the faculty of the National Association of Securities Dealers Institute for Professional Development at the Wharton School of Business. She holds a juris doctorate from Georgetown University and a bachelor?s degree from North Carolina State University.
Krawiec?s recent scholarship addresses organizational misconduct and trade within forbidden or contested markets. These works include ?Price and Pretense in The Baby Market,? in Baby Markets: Money, Morals, And The Neopolitics Of Choice(Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2009); ?Sunny Samaritans & Egomaniacs: Price-Fixing in the Gamete Market,? and ?Show Me The Money: Making Markets in Forbidden Exchange,? forthcoming in Duke Law School?s Law and Contemporary Problems; and ?Altruism and Intermediation in the Market for Babies,? in the Washington & Lee Law Review. She also recently contributed a chapter, ?Operational Risk Management: An Emergent Industry,? to the book Operational Risk Towards Basel III: Best Practices And Issues In Modeling, Management And Regulation (John Wiley and Sons, 2009).
A visiting professor at Duke Law during the 2008-09 academic year, Krawiec also has taught law at the University of Virginia, the University of North Carolina, Harvard, and Northwestern, where she received the 1999-2000 Robert Childres Award for Teaching Excellence.
Contact
Communications Office, Law School, (757)221-1840, [[jpwelc]]