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).