Writing

Publications

Books, articles, and book chapters on taboo trades, reproductive and organ markets, contracts, and the regulation of financial markets. Full texts for most papers are available on SSRN.

Works in Progress

  1. — Generosity to Donors of Biological Materials: Not Whether but How, with Alvin E. Roth.
  2. — Keep the Ring: Engagement and the Legal Fiction of Conditional Gifts, with Nathan B. Oman.
  3. — Incentivizing Witness Cooperation, with Philip J. Cook and Rachel Harmon.
  4. — Essay on Alvin Roth’s Moral Economics, for OEconomia.

Books & Edited Volumes

The co-editors of Policy Shock
Kim Krawiec (second from right) with her co-editors of Policy Shock (2017): Edward Balleisen, Lori Bennear, and Jonathan Wiener.
  1. 2017 Policy Shock: Recalibrating Risk and Regulation After Oil Spills, Nuclear Accidents, and Financial Crises, co-edited with Edward J. Balleisen, Lori S. Bennear & Jonathan B. Wiener (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
  2. 2022 Sex in Law, 85 Law and Contemporary Problems no. 1 (2022), co-edited with Doriane Coleman.
  3. 2018 Sex and Sport, 80 Law and Contemporary Problems no. 4 (2018), co-edited with Doriane Coleman.
  4. 2018 Altruism, Community, and Markets, 81 Law and Contemporary Problems no. 3 (2018), co-edited with Julia Mahoney & Sally Satel.
  5. 2017 Law and Markets, 80 Law and Contemporary Problems no. 1 (2017), co-edited with Joseph Blocher.
  6. 2014 Organs and Inducements, 77 Law and Contemporary Problems no. 3 (2014), co-edited with Philip J. Cook.
  7. 2009 Show Me the Money: Making Markets in Forbidden Exchange, 72 Law and Contemporary Problems no. 3 (2009).
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Articles & Book Chapters

  1. 2026 L’OMS estime que les pays devraient être autosuffisants en matière d’organes et de sang (non rémunérés), with Alvin E. Roth, 37 Journal international de bioéthique et d’éthique des sciences 49 (2026).
  2. 2026 Repugnant Work, in The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Work (Oxford University Press, 2026).
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  3. 2025 The Case for Specific Performance of Personal Service Contracts, with Nathan B. Oman, 110 Iowa Law Review 751 (2025).
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  4. 2025 Vice Capital, with Andrew K. Jennings, 15 U.C. Irvine Law Review 427 (2025).
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  5. 2025 WHO Says Countries Should Be Self-Sufficient in (Unremunerated) Organs and Blood, with Alvin E. Roth, in Markets in Human Organs for Transplantation: Controversy and Contention 17 (Routledge, 2025).
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  6. 2025 The Ethical Limits of Markets: Market Inalienability, in Research Handbook on the Philosophy of Contract Law 222 (Edward Elgar, 2025).
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  7. 2023 Gametes: Commodification and the Fertility Industry, in The Routledge Handbook of Commodification 278 (Routledge, 2023).
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  8. 2023 Markets, Repugnance, and Externalities, 19 Journal of Institutional Economics 944 (2023).
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  9. 2022 No Money Allowed, 2022 University of Chicago Legal Forum 221 (2022).
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  10. 2022 Criminal, Legal, and Ethical Kidney Donation and Transplantation: A Conceptual Framework to Enable Innovation, with Alvin E. Roth, Ignazio R. Marino & Michael A. Rees, 35 Transplant International 22 (2022).
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  11. 2022 Organ Entrepreneurs, with Kieran Healy, in The Cambridge Handbook on Law and Entrepreneurship in the United States 268 (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
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  12. 2022 Foreword: Sex in Law, with Doriane Coleman, 85 Law and Contemporary Problems 1 (2022).
  13. 2020 Kidney Donation and the Consent of the Poor, with Philip J. Cook, 66 Loyola Law Review 23 (2020).
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  14. 2019 Let’s Talk: What FinReg Can Learn from New Governance (and Vice Versa), 44 Law & Social Inquiry 1241 (2019).
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  15. 2019 Kidneys Without Money, 175 Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 4 (2019).
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  16. 2018 Complete Chain of the First Global Kidney Exchange Transplant and 3-Year Follow-Up, with Danielle N. Bozek et al., 4 European Urology Focus 190 (2018).
  17. 2018 If We Allow Football Players and Boxers to Be Paid for Entertaining the Public, Why Don’t We Allow Kidney Donors to Be Paid for Saving Lives?, with Philip J. Cook, 81 Law and Contemporary Problems 9 (2018).
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  18. 2018 Does Contract Law Need Morality?, with Wenhao Liu, 9 William & Mary Business Law Review 435 (2018).
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  19. 2018 If We Pay Football Players, Why Not Kidney Donors?, with Philip J. Cook, Regulation, Spring 2018, at 12.
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  20. 2018 Foreword: Altruism, Community, and Markets, with Julia D. Mahoney & Sally L. Satel, 81 Law and Contemporary Problems 1 (2018).
  21. 2017 Introduction, with Edward J. Balleisen, Lori S. Bennear & Jonathan B. Wiener, in Policy Shock: Recalibrating Risk and Regulation After Oil Spills, Nuclear Accidents, and Financial Crises (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
  22. 2017 Recalibrating Risk: Crises, Learning, and Regulatory Change, with Edward J. Balleisen, Lori S. Bennear & Jonathan B. Wiener, in Policy Shock 540 (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
  23. 2017 Foreword: Sex in Sport, with Doriane Coleman, 80 Law and Contemporary Problems 1 (2017).
  24. 2017 Foreword: How to Think About Law and Markets, with Joseph Blocher, 80 Law and Contemporary Problems 1 (2017).
  25. 2017 Introduction to the Law and Markets: Regulating Controversial Exchange, with Poonam Puri & Mitu Gulati, 54 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 333 (2017).
  26. 2017 Repugnance Management and Transactions in the Body, with Kieran Healy, 107 American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings 86 (2017).
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  27. 2017 Kidney Exchange to Overcome Financial Barriers to Kidney Transplantation, with Michael A. Rees et al., 17 American Journal of Transplantation 782 (2017).
  28. 2017 Contract Development in a Matching Market: The Case of Kidney Exchange, with Wenhao Liu & Marc L. Melcher, 80 Law and Contemporary Problems 11 (2017).
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  29. 2016 Diversity and Talent at the Top: Lessons from the Boardroom, with John M. Conley & Lissa L. Broome, in Diversity in Practice: Race, Gender, and Class in Legal and Professional Careers 81 (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
  30. 2016 Lessons from Law About Incomplete Commodification in the Egg Market, 33 Journal of Applied Philosophy 160 (2016).
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  31. 2015 The Volcker Rule: A Brief Political History, with Guangya Liu, 10 Capital Markets Law Journal 507 (2015).
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  32. 2015 Markets, Morals, and Limits in the Exchange of Human Eggs, 13 Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy 349 (2015).
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  33. 2014 A Primer on Kidney Transplantation: Anatomy of the Shortage, with Philip J. Cook, 77 Law and Contemporary Problems 1 (2014).
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  34. 2014 Reverse Transplant Tourism, with Michael A. Rees, 77 Law and Contemporary Problems 145 (2014).
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  35. 2014 Foreword: Organs and Inducements, with Philip J. Cook, 77 Law and Contemporary Problems i (2014).
  36. 2014 Egg-Donor Price Fixing and Kamakahi v. American Society for Reproductive Medicine, 16 AMA Journal of Ethics 57 (2014).
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  37. 2014 A Difficult Conversation: Corporate Directors on Race and Gender, with John M. Conley & Lissa L. Broome, 26 Pace International Law Review 13 (2014).
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  38. 2013 Agency Lobbying and Financial Reform: A Volcker Rule Case Study, 32 Banking & Financial Services Policy Report 15 (Aug. 2013).
  39. 2013 The Danger of Difference: Tensions in Directors’ Views of Corporate Board Diversity, with Lissa L. Broome & John M. Conley, 2013 University of Illinois Law Review 919 (2013).
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  40. 2013 Don’t “Screw Joe the Plummer”: The Sausage-Making of Financial Reform, 55 Arizona Law Review 53 (2013).
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  41. 2012 Custom, Contract, and Kidney Exchange, with Kieran Healy, 62 Duke Law Journal 645 (2012).
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  42. 2011 Dangerous Categories: Narratives of Corporate Board Diversity, with Lissa L. Broome & John M. Conley, 89 North Carolina Law Review 759 (2011).
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  43. 2011 Does Critical Mass Matter? Views from the Boardroom, with Lissa L. Broome & John M. Conley, 34 Seattle University Law Review 1049 (2011).
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  44. 2011 The Dark Side of Commodification Objections: Politics and Elitism in Standardized Testing, 35 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 349 (2011).
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  45. 2011 For Love or Money: Defining Relationships in Law and Life, with Marion Crain, 35 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 1 (2011).
  46. 2011 Narratives of Diversity in the Corporate Boardroom: What Corporate Insiders Say About Why Diversity Matters, in Discourse Perspectives on Organizational Communication (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011).
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  47. 2010 A Woman’s Worth, 88 North Carolina Law Review 1739 (2010).
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  48. 2010 Price and Pretense in the Baby Market, in Baby Markets: Money and the New Politics of Creating Families (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
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  49. 2009 Sunny Samaritans and Egomaniacs: Price-Fixing in the Gamete Market, 72 Law and Contemporary Problems 59 (2009).
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  50. 2009 Introduction: Show Me the Money: Making Markets in Forbidden Exchange, 72 Law and Contemporary Problems i (2009).
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  51. 2009 Why We Should Ignore the “Octomom”, 104 Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy 120 (2009).
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  52. 2009 The Return of the Rogue, 51 Arizona Law Review 127 (2009).
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  53. 2009 Altruism and Intermediation in the Market for Babies, 66 Washington and Lee Law Review 203 (2009).
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  54. 2009 Operational Risk Management: An Emergent Industry, in Operational Risk Towards Basel III (John Wiley & Sons, 2009).
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  55. 2008 Signaling Through Board Diversity: Is Anyone Listening?, with Lissa L. Broome, 77 University of Cincinnati Law Review 431 (2008).
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  56. 2006 Incomplete Contracts in a Complete Contract World, with Scott Baker, 33 Florida State University Law Review 725 (2006).
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  57. 2005 Common Law Disclosure Duties and the Sin of Omission: Testing the Meta-Theories, with Kathryn Zeiler, 91 Virginia Law Review 1795 (2005).
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  58. 2005 Organizational Form as Status and Signal, 40 Wake Forest Law Review 977 (2005).
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  59. 2005 The Economics of Limited Liability: An Empirical Study of New York Law Firms, with Scott Baker, 2005 University of Illinois Law Review 107 (2005).
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  60. 2005 Organizational Misconduct: Beyond the Principal-Agent Model, 32 Florida State University Law Review 571 (2005).
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  61. 2004 The Penalty Default Canon, with Scott Baker, 72 George Washington Law Review 663 (2004).
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  62. 2003 Cosmetic Compliance and the Failure of Negotiated Governance, 81 Washington University Law Quarterly 487 (2003).
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  63. 2001 Fairness, Efficiency, and Insider Trading: Deconstructing the Coin of the Realm in the Information Age, 95 Northwestern University Law Review 443 (2001).
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  64. 2001 Foreword, The Regulation of Derivatives and Other Complex Financial Products, 21 Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business 565 (2001).
  65. 2001 Privatizing “Outsider Trading”, 41 Virginia Journal of International Law 693 (2001).
  66. 2001 Derivatives on TV: A Tale of Two Derivatives Debacles in Prime Time, with Peter H. Huang & Frank Partnoy, 4 Green Bag 2d 257 (2001).
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  67. 2000 Accounting for Greed: Unraveling the “Rogue Trader” Mystery, 79 Oregon Law Review 301 (2000).
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  68. 2000 SEC Promulgates New Insider Trading Rules, with Richard W. Painter, 15 BNA Corporate Counsel Weekly 8 (Nov. 1, 2000).
  69. 2000 Building the Basic Course Around Intra-Firm Relations, 34 Georgia Law Review 785 (2000).
  70. 1998 Derivatives, Corporate Hedging and Shareholder Wealth: Modigliani-Miller Forty Years Later, 1998 University of Illinois Law Review 1039 (1998).
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  71. 1998 Don’t Ask, Just Tell: Insider Trading After United States v. O’Hagan, with Richard Painter & Cindy Williams, 84 Virginia Law Review 153 (1998).
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  72. 1997 More Than Just New Financial Bingo: A Risk-Based Approach to Understanding Derivatives, 23 Journal of Corporation Law 1 (1997).
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  73. 1997 Fiduciaries, Misappropriators and the Murky Outlines of the Den of Thieves: A Conceptual Continuum for Analyzing United States v. O’Hagan, 33 Tulsa Law Journal 163 (1997).
  74. 1997 Corporate Debt Restructurings in Mexico: For Foreign Creditors, Insolvency Law Is Only Half the Story, 17 New York Law School Journal of International and Comparative Law 481 (1997).
  75. 1996 Gustafson v. Alloyd Co.: The Wrong Decision, But It Is Still Business as Usual in the Securities Markets, 31 Tulsa Law Journal 509 (1996).
  76. 1991 Electronic Surveillance, in Annual Review of Criminal Procedure, 79 Georgetown Law Journal 678 (1991).

Shorter Academic Commentaries

  1. 2020 Global Kidney Exchange Should Expand Wisely, with Alvin E. Roth et al., 33 Transplant International 985 (2020).
  2. 2017 Global Kidney Exchange: Financially Incompatible Pairs Are Not Transplantable Compatible Pairs, with Michael A. Rees et al., 17 American Journal of Transplantation 2743 (2017).
  3. 2017 People Should Not Be Banned from Transplantation Only Because of Their Country of Origin, with Alvin E. Roth et al., 17 American Journal of Transplantation 2747 (2017).
  4. 2016 Is Informed Consent Enough?, with Wenhao Liu & Marc L. Melcher, 16 American Journal of Transplantation 1038 (2016).