This being spring, it's time for awards and Kim is too modest to talk about this, so I'm going to. Duke Law School Dean David Levi announced last week that Kim has been named the Kathrine Robinson Everett Professor of Law by Duke's trustees. I'm cribbing now from the Duke press release:
A highly regarded scholar in corporate law and financial markets who joined the Duke Law faculty in 2009, 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; banned commercial exchanges; corporate compliance systems; insider trading; derivatives hedging practices; and "rogue" trading.
“In 2000, she wrote an article in the Oregon Law Review making an argument that was unusual for the time but now appears prescient,” said [Duke University President Richard] Brodhead in his citation, “that banks had an incentive to reward ‘rogue’ trading because the increased risk meant they would profit from this activity.” Krawiec’s recent scholarship addresses issues of diversity in the corporate boardroom and organizational misconduct and trade within forbidden or contested markets, including the competing forces at work, such as altruism and money, in the “baby market.”
At Duke Law, Krawiec teaches Business Associations, Financial Derivatives, Taboo Trades and Forbidden Exchanges, and Readings in Ethics.
Of course, Kim is known to readers of this blog as an expert on board diversity, among many other topics.
The historian in me requires that I note that people interested in Kathrine Robinson Everett -- class of 1920 at UNC Law -- should consult her papers at Duke and the oral history collection at UNC. And those of us over in Chapel Hill may recall that our law library is named after Kathrine Robinson Everett.
Congratulations to Kim...and thanks to Al for for graciously keeping us informed (of this and other things!).
Posted by: Patrick S. O'Donnell | May 04, 2011 at 02:01 PM
Thanks for this Al! You're the best. And thanks for providing the links on Kathrine Robinson Everett. It's an honor to hold a chair named after such an amazing woman. I especially liked this part from the bio you linked to: "Kathrine Robinson Everett, born in 1893, was the only woman in the class of 1920 and graduated first in her class, was one of the first women admitted to the state bar, was the first woman to argue a case (which she won) before the North Carolina Supreme Court . . . "
Wow.
Posted by: Kim Krawiec | May 04, 2011 at 02:04 PM
Thank you, Patrick -- I appreciate that.
Posted by: Kim Krawiec | May 04, 2011 at 02:06 PM
Congrats, that's wonderful :-)
Posted by: Jeff Yates | May 04, 2011 at 03:29 PM
Congratulations to Kim!!
Posted by: Mary Dudziak | May 04, 2011 at 04:01 PM
Congratulations, Kim- very well deserved.
Posted by: Matt | May 04, 2011 at 04:08 PM
Thanks you guys!
Posted by: Kim Krawiec | May 04, 2011 at 04:09 PM
Kudos, Kim!
Posted by: Tim Zinnecker | May 04, 2011 at 05:46 PM
Congratulations, Kim. Great news! And how cool is it to have a chair named for such a pioneering lawyer!
Posted by: Bridget Crawford | May 04, 2011 at 06:04 PM
Thanks Tim! And yes, Bridget, it is very, very cool. I had no idea at first what a path breaker she really was -- thanks again to Al for posting the links to her information.
Posted by: Kim Krawiec | May 04, 2011 at 06:49 PM
Sorry to be so late to the party, but congratulations Kim. I echo what everyone else has said - well deserved, and what a great person to have a chair named after.
Posted by: Jacqueline Lipton | May 04, 2011 at 06:53 PM
Thank you, Jacqui -- and better late than never. All of these kudos from the Loungers today has been really, really nice.
Posted by: Kim Krawiec | May 04, 2011 at 06:54 PM
Congratulations to Kim, and to Duke.
Posted by: Eric Fink | May 04, 2011 at 09:36 PM
Thanks Eric!
Posted by: Kim Krawiec | May 05, 2011 at 07:52 AM
Many congratulations, Kim! This is wonderful news!
Posted by: Tom Gallanis | May 05, 2011 at 11:27 AM
Actually, Kim, I think Kathrine Robinson Everett would be excited that you occupy the chair named after her. What a life -- born in 1893; she was an adult already by the time of the 19th amendment. She lived to see a woman run for vice president on a major ticket. Lots of changes happen over the course of almost a century. And I'd be very interested in what she'd have to say about your taboo trades class.
Posted by: Alfred Brophy | May 05, 2011 at 06:38 PM
Many thanks for the great posting. I am glad I have taken the time to see this.
Posted by: letters from nowhere 2 | May 05, 2011 at 10:39 PM
Thanks Tom. Al, I can't imagine what she'd say about Taboo Trades. I would say she'd be shocked at a class about kidneys, egg, and sperm, among other topics, but after a life such as hers, it doesn't seem like she would be the type to be easily shocked!
Posted by: Kim Krawiec | May 06, 2011 at 10:33 AM