Author: Kimberly Krawiec
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Find me on Substack
My current public writing appears on Substack (https://substack.com/@kimberlydkrawiec). Older posts are archived below.
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Repugnance, Global Kidney Exchange, and Drinking Our Own Spit: An Oral Argument Reunion
Last week I had a great “reunion” with Joe Miller and Christian Turner taping the latest episode of their Oral Argument podcast. I first appeared on Oral Argument (which was also my first podcast ever) back in episode 17 (“Fleshlist”), which Christian and Joe reminded me was WAAAYY back in 2014. Wow, that seems like last year,…
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Repugnance Readings For The New Year
Happy 2019! Why not start out the new year with a set of readings on repugnance . . . you know you want to. (They’re readings on repugnance, not repugnant readings!) There is a piece from me, accompanied by excellent commentaries by Harvard law’s Glenn Cohen and the German philosopher, Weyma Lübbe (University of Regensburg). Sadly, all three pieces are behind a paywall.…
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Meet me in Mannheim!
Next week I’ll be giving a keynote lecture and also participating in a panel discussion on “Allocation Problems in health care” at the MaCCI Law & Economics Conference on The Law and Economics of Market Design. From the conference website: The conference will provide an international platform for exchange and discussion between academic researchers and practitioners…
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Me with Brian Frye on Ipse Dixit
I just did a short and fun podcast with Brian Frye (University of Kentucky College of Law) about repugnant markets ranging from kidneys to football, boxing, sex, and blood. You can listen below. Brian was a wonderful and generous host, and I’m so grateful for the opportunity to discuss my work with him (and with you!) Links…
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Details of the first Global Kidney Exchange Live and (temporarily) ungated
The final version of the paper that I blogged about last week, Complete Chain of the First Global Kidney Exchange Transplant and 3-yr Follow-up, is now available online. The publisher has created a Share Link providing 50 days’ free access to the article. Anyone clicking on this link before October 27, 2018 will be taken directly to the final version…
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Details of the First GKE (Global Kidney Exchange) Chain
My co-authors and I recently published a paper that provides more detail on the first Global Kidney Exchange (GKE), including a 3-year follow-up report on the Filipino pair that participated. We wrote this, in part, to respond to GKE critics who argued that the Filipino pair had been exploited or coerced into participating, or who argued that…
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Board Diversity In The News Again
Thanks to California, corporate board diversity or, more specifically, gender diversity, is in the news again. SB 826 which, according to news reports, Gov. Jerry Brown is expected to sign, passed the state Senate in a 23-9 vote and the Assembly in a 41-26 vote. The statute would require “publicly held domestic or foreign corporation[s] whose principal executive offices,…
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Kidney Doner Stories
Over at Market Design Blog, Al Roth posts part of an incredibly moving email conversation with a donor who became part of a kidney paired exchange after hearing what I think is one of the best Freakonomics episodes of all time. As the donor describes it: Then I heard a follow up episode that united a donor with…
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Super Bowl Week OpEd
As the Super Bowl approaches, Phil Cook and I have an OpEd running in the Raleigh News & Observer and a few other publications: Why ban payment to kidney donors but not football players? BY PHILIP J. COOK AND KIMBERLY D. KRAWIEC February 01, 2018 01:06 PM Super Bowl week rivets national attention on America’s most popular…
