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Kimberly D. Krawiec

Professor of Law

Education

  • J.D. (cum laude), Georgetown University (1992)
  • B.A. (cum laude), North Carolina State University (1987)

Kimberly D. Krawiec is a professor of law at the University of North Carolina and has taught at many other law schools, including Harvard, Virginia, and Northwestern. She teaches courses in securities, corporate, and derivatives law. Professor Krawiec's 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; banned commercial exchanges; corporate compliance systems; insider trading; derivatives hedging practices; and "rogue" trading. Prior to joining academia, she was a member of the Commodity & Derivatives Group at the New York office of Sullivan & Cromwell. Professor Krawiec 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.

Representative recent publications include: Common-law Disclosure Duties and the Sin of Omission: Testing the Meta-theories (with K. Zeiler), 91 VA. L. REV. 1795 (2005); Organizational Misconduct: Beyond the Principal-Agent Model, 32 FL. ST. L. REV. 571 (2005); The Economics of Limited Liability: An Empirical Study of New York Law Firms (with S. Baker), 2005 U. ILL. L. REV. 107 (2005); Cosmetic Compliance and the Failure of Negotiated Governance, 81 WASH. U. L. Q. 487 (2003); and Accounting for Greed: Unraveling the Rogue Trader Mystery, 72 OR. L. REV. 301 (2000).

Curriculum Vitae

Read the Financial Times review of work on rogue trading

View Data and Accompanying Materials for The Economics of Limited Liability: An Empirical Study of New York Law Firms, 2005 U. Ill. L. Rev. 107 (with S. Baker)

Model Appendix, Scott Baker and Kim Krawiec, Incomplete Contracts in a Complete Contract World , 33 Fl. State L. Rev. 725 (2006).

Selected Publications

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  • Altruism and Intermediation in the Market for Babies, 66 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 203 (2009). [Westlaw, Lexis/Nexis, SSRN, BEPress]
  • Narratives of Diversity in the Corporate Boardroom: What Corporate Insiders Say About Why Diversity Matters (J. Conley, L. Broome and K. Krawiec) (2009). [SSRN, BEPress]
  • Operational Risk Management: An Emergent Industry in OPERATIONAL RISK TOWARDS BASEL III: BEST PRACTICES AND ISSUES IN MODELING, MANAGEMENT AND REGULATION (G.N. Gregoriou, ed.) (John Wiley and Sons, forthcoming 2009. [SSRN, BEPress HG3881 .O58 2009]
  • Price and Pretense in the Baby Market, in BABY MARKETS: MONEY, MORALS, AND THE NEOPOLITICS OF CHOICE (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2009). [SSRN, BEPress]
  • Show Me the Money: Making Markets in Forbidden Exchange, 72 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. (forthcoming 2009). [SSRN, BEPress]
  • Sunny Samaritans and Egomaniacs: Price-Fixing in the Gamete Market, 72 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS._ (forthcoming 2009). [SSRN]
  • The Return of the Rogue, 51 ARIZ. L. REV. 127, (2009). [Westlaw, Lexis/Nexis, SSRN, BEPress]
  • Signaling Through Board Diversity: Is Anyone Listening? (with K. Krawiec) 77 U. CIN. L. REV. 431 (2008). [Westlaw, Lexis/Nexis, SSRN, Hein, Generic Link K25 .N482089]
  • Signaling Through Board Diversity: Is Anyone Listening? (with L. Broome) 77 U. CIN. L. REV. 431 (2008). [Westlaw, Lexis/Nexis, SSRN, Hein, BEPress, Generic Link]
  • Incomplete Contracts in a Complete Contract World, (with K. Krawiec) 33 FLA. ST. U. L. REV. 725 (2006). [Westlaw, Lexis/Nexis, SSRN, Hein, BEPress]

Areas of Expertise

  • Corporate Board Diversity

Contact Information

Phone: 919.962.4118
Fax: 919.962.1277
E-mail: krawiec@email.unc.edu


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