A WARDS & H ONORS • Elected Member, American Law Institute – 2016 – Present • American Bar Foundation Fellow – 2016 – Present • Outstanding Scholar Award, Lutie Lytle Conference Univ
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Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law Emory University School of Law
1301 Clifton Rd., NE, Atlanta, GA 30322
Kristin.Johnson@emory.edu•Faculty Profile • Scholarship • Google Scholar •Twitter @ProfKNJ
L EGAL A CADEMIC A PPOINTMENTS
C URRENT A CADEMIC A PPOINTMENT
Emory Law School, Atlanta, GA
Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law – (January 2021 to Present)
Senior Associate Dean of Faculty & Academics – (Beginning January 2022)
Goizueta Business School Dean Search Committee – (Summer 2021 to Present)
Adolf Berle Symposium - Inclusive Corporate Leadership (Co-Organizer) McGill University, Montréal (May 2022)
P REVIOUS A CADEMIC A PPOINTMENTS
Tulane University Law School,New Orleans, LA
McGlinchey Stafford Professor of Law – (July 2018 – December 2020)
Associate Dean of Faculty Research – (December 2018 – December 2020)
• Law School Dean’s Executive Cabinet – (January 2019 – December 2020)
• Vice President of University Research Deans Council, Member – (January 2019 –December 2020)
• Faculty Governance - Intellectual Life Committee (January 2019 – December 2020); Promotion & Tenure (2019 – 2021); First Year Curriculum (2019 – 2020); Appointments Searches: Research Professor (Chair,
2019 – 2020); Murphy Institute Visiting Assistant Professor Appointments Committee (2018-2020); International Visiting Fellow and Non-JD Programs Planning Committee (2018 – 2020)
Gordon Gamm Research Scholar– (2019 – 2020)
• Primary organizer: The Implications of Artificial Intelligence For A Just Society – (2019)
Murphy Institute Center on Law and the Economy, Affiliated Faculty– (July 2018 – December 2020)
• Director, Financial Stability Program
• Co-organizer of Tulane-SMU Annual Crypto-Economics & The Law Workshop
Seton Hall University Law School, Newark, NJ
Professor of Law – (2013 – 2018); Associate Professor of Law – (2008 – 2013)
Dean’s Research Fellowship – (2017 – 2018); Chair, Dean’s Diversity Council – (2017 – 2018)
Director, Regulation, Governance and Risk Management Program – (2014 – 2018)
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Privacy Protection – (2016 – 2018)
• Law School Dean Search Committee – (2014 - 2015)
• Faculty Governance: Appointments Committee (2016 – 2017); Contract Renewal Committee (2015 – 2016); Faculty Workshop Committee (2015 – 2016); Budget Committee (2011 – 2014); (2016 – 2017); Admissions Committee (2010 – 2014); Academic Credentials Committee (2009 – 2014); Graduation Committee (Chair 2011 – 2012; 2008 – 2011); Clerkships (2008 – 2009)
V ISITING A CADEMIC A PPOINTMENTS
University of California-Irvine School of Law, Irvine, CA – Spring 2018
Visiting Professor and Inaugural Visiting Scholar for the Center on Law, Equality, and Race
Washington & Lee University Law School, Lexington, VA – Fall 2017
Visiting Professor and Francis Lewis Law Center Scholar
University of Illinois College of Law, Champaign, IL – Spring 2015
Visiting Professor
University of Florida, Levin College of Law, Gainesville, FL – Spring 2014
Visiting Professor
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B OOKS AND B OOK C HAPTERS
RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE &THE LAW (CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS)
(Forthcoming 2022)(with Carla Reyes)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE &THE LAW:CASES AND MATERIALS (ASPEN)(Forthcoming 2022)(with Carla Reyes)
Algorithmic Corporate Governance, In ARESEARCH AGENDA FOR CORPORATE LAW (Eds Christopher Bruner and
Marc Moore)(Edward Elgar)(Forthcoming 2022)
Reimagining Investor Protection, In FEMINIST JUDGMENTS:REWRITTEN CORPORATE LAW (Eds Usha Rodrigues,
Innovating Heists: Regulating Cyber Threats in the Financial Services Industry in MOST IMPORTANT CONCEPTS IN
FINANCE (Ed., Benton Gup)(Edward Elgar 2017) (SSRN)
F ULL L ENGTH J OURNAL A RTICLES AND E SSAYS
• Disintermediation and Decentralization in Financial Markets, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW
SCHOOL REGULATORY REVIEW (May 5, 2021)
(2021) (SSRN)
COMPARATIVE LAW (Forthcoming)(2021)(with Carla Reyes)
REVIEW ONLINE (January 2020)(invited symposium)(SSRN)
symposium contribution) (SSRN)
• Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Bias in Finance: Toward Responsible Innovation, 88
FORDHAM LAW REVIEW 499 (2019)(invited symposium)(with Frank Pasquale and Jennifer Chapman Smith) (SSRN)
TECHNOLOGY LAW REVIEW 115 (2019)(invited symposium)(with Sarah Hsu & Stanley Sater)
• Examining the Use of Alternative Data in Underwriting and Credit Scoring to Expand Access to
Credit, 116th Cong (testimony before United States House of Representatives, Financial Services
Committee, Task Force on Financial Technology and Artificial Intelligence, July 25, 2019)(SSRN)
REVIEW 327 (2017) (SSRN)
• Diversifying To Mitigate Risk: Can Dodd-Frank Section 342 Help Stabilize the Financial Sector?, 73
WASHINGTON &LEE L.REV.1795 (2016) (with Steven Ramirez and Cary Martin Shelby) (SSRN)
REVIEW 131 (2015) (invited symposium) (SSRN)
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• Macroprudential Regulation: A Sustainable Approach to Regulating Financial Markets, 2013 U.
ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW 881 (2013) (symposium) (SSRN)
LAW REVIEW (Donald C Langevoort ed., 2014)
• Addressing Gaps in The Dodd-Frank Act: Directors’ Risk Management Oversight Obligations,
Delaware)
S TUDENT P UBLICATIONS
W ORKS IN P ROGRESS
Underscoring Consumer Privacy
Algorithmic Corporate Governance
Governing Decentralized Cryptocurrency Markets
Discrediting Financial Inclusion
L EGAL P RACTICE AND F INANCIAL M ARKETS E XPERIENCE
J.P Morgan Chase & Co., New York, NY, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel– 2007–2008
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, New York, New York & London, England – 2005 – 2007
Associate – 2003 – 2004; Summer Associate 2002
Akin, Gump, Strauss Hauer & Feld – Summer Associate 2001
Goldman, Sachs & Co., New York, NY, Analyst, Investment Management Division – 1999 – 2000
J UDICIAL C LERKSHIP
T HE H ONORABLE J OSEPH A G REENWAY , J R District Court for the District of New Jersey – 2004-2005
Elevated to U.S Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (February 2010)
E DUCATIONAL B ACKGROUND
T HE U NIVERSITY OF M ICHIGAN L AW S CHOOL, Ann Arbor, MI
J.D., graduated May 2003
Honors:
Note Editor, Michigan Law Review
Bodman-Longley Award
Clara Belfield and Henry Bates Overseas Research Fellowship, Havana, Cuba – Summer 2003
Alden J (“Butch”) Carpenter Award
Foley & Lardner First Year Law Student Award
Research Assistant: James Forman (Yale Law School) and Adrien Wing (University of Iowa College of Law)
Activities:
Black Law Students Alliance (Executive Board 2001-2003)
Women Law Students Association
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B.S in Comparative Political Economy, with a concentration in African and Latin American Studies,
graduated cum laude in May 1999
Honors:
Peter F Krogh Scholar
Phi Alpha Theta
President, School of Foreign Service Academic Council
Georgetown University L’Institute Touraine, Tours, France (Language Immersion Program, Summer 1997)
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador (Language Immersion Program, Summer 1996)
T ESTIMONY
Testimony before United States House of Representatives, Financial Services Committee, Subcommittee on
Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions, Banking Innovation or Regulatory Evasion? Exploring Trends in
Financial Institution Charters, April 15, 2021
Testimony before United States House of Representatives, Financial Services Committee, Task Force on
Financial Technology and Artificial Intelligence, Examining the Use of Alternative Data in Underwriting and Credit
Scoring to Expand Access to Credit, July 25, 2019
A WARDS & H ONORS
• Elected Member, American Law Institute – 2016 – Present
• American Bar Foundation Fellow – 2016 – Present
• Outstanding Scholar Award, Lutie Lytle Conference (University of Michigan Law School – July 2017)
• Millstein Center for Corporate Governance Rising Star Award, Yale University School of Management, Nominee – 2011
• Professor of the Year Award, Nominee, Seton Hall University Law School – 2011
A CADEMIC P ROGRAMMING AND R ESEARCH G RANTS
• Carol Lavin Bernick Faculty Research Grant Award, Tulane University – 2020 – 2021
• Investor Advocacy Project ($250,000 grant Funded by the FINRA, grant advisor) – 2010 – 2017
R ESEARCH I NTERESTS
Regulating Financial Institutions and Financial Markets; Consumer Protection; Emerging Technology in Finance (including Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Neural Networks and Distributed Digital Ledger Technology); Risk Management; Corporate Governance and Compliance; Privacy and the Data Economy
P ROFESSIONAL AND A CADEMIC S ERVICE
E DITORIAL B OARDS AND I NVITATIONS
Journal of International Economic Law (Oxford University Press) – (2014 – Present)
Frontiers in Blockchain Journal (Peer Review Journal) – 2019 – Present
Journal of International & Comparative Law: Invited Special Editor, Volume 7 (Forthcoming 2021)
A DVISORY B OARDS AND C OMMITTEES
University of Michigan Law School, 2022 A3 Reunion, Programming Committee Co-Chair (2021- Present)
Administrative Conference of the United States, Ad Hoc Committee on Agency Use of
Artificial Intelligence, Invited Advisor (2021- Present)
FEMINIST JUDGMENTS:REWRITTEN CORPORATE LAW (Kelli Alces Williams, Usha Rodrigues,
National Business Law Scholars Conference Board – 2012 – Present
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Lutie Lytle Faculty Workshop Planning Committee – 2011 – 2021
Lutie Lytle Faculty Workshop Appointments Committee 2020 – Present
R EFEREE S ERVICE: Yale Law Journal and Washington & Lee Law Review
E XTERNAL P ROFESSIONAL S ERVICE
• American Association of Law Schools (AALS)
o Securities Regulation Section Executive Committee (2019-Present; Chair-Elect 2021-Present)
o Business Associations Section Executive Committee (2014 - 2016)
o Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Services (Executive Committee, 2013 - 2015)
o Mid-Year Corporate and Finance Law Workshop Planning Committee (2013)
• National Business Law Scholars Conference (Planning Committee 2012-2020)
• Privacy Law Scholars Conference (Programming Committee 2020- Present)
C ONFERENCES , I NVITED L ECTURES , P RESENTATIONS AND C OMMENTARY
Invited Speaker, Underscoring Consumer Privacy, Faculty Workshop, Cornell University Law School, April 22,
2022
Invited Speaker, Automating the Administrative State Symposium, Duke Law Review Symposium, February 2,
2022
Invited Speaker, Decentralized Finance: Regulating Cryptocurrency Exchanges, Columbia University Law School
Law and Economics Workshop, New York, NY, November 22, 2021
Invited Speaker, Underscoring Consumer Privacy, Topics in Privacy & Security Law Seminar, Berkeley Law,
Berkeley, CA, November 15, 2021
Invited Speaker, Underscoring Consumer Privacy, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in the Digital Age Seminar,
Fordham University Law School, New York, NY, November 4, 2021
Keynote Speaker, Penn State University’s Institute for Computational Data Sciences Fall 2021 Symposium, The
Future of Digital Fairness: Data Science and Equity, October 7, 2021
Invited Speaker, Decentralized Finance: Regulating Cryptocurrency Exchanges, Cybersecurity Law and Policy
Scholars Conference, University of Minnesota Law School, October 1, 2021
Invited Speaker, Decentralized Finance: Regulating Cryptocurrency Exchanges, Texas A&M University School of
Law, September 15, 2021
Invited Speaker, Summer Academy On Law, Money And Technology: Toward Democratic Futures, University of
Manchester Law School, Manchester, England, July 28, 2021
Invited Speaker, Banking Innovation or Regulatory Evasion? Exploring Trends in Financial Institution Charters,
116th Cong (testimony before United States House of Representatives, Financial Services Committee,
Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions, April 15, 2021)
Invited Speaker, Alternative Careers in Law: The Road Less Traveled, Taking the Fork to Higher Education, University
of Michigan Law School African-American Alumni Reunion, Ann Arbor, MI, March 26, 2021
Invited Speaker, Driverless Finance: Bias and Other Ethical Concerns, University of Pennsylvania Law School,
Advanced Regulatory Law and Policy Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, March 10, 2021
Invited Speaker, Securities Regulation Section Program, American Association of Law Schools, Annual Meeting,
Washington D.C., January 7, 2021
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Joel R Reidenberg Northeast Privacy Scholars Workshop, November 13, 2020
Invited Speaker, Underscoring Consumer Credit, The Information Society Project, Yale Law School, New Haven,
CT, November 12, 2020
Invited Panelist, Administrative Conference of the United States, Bias and Artificial Intelligence in Government,
Washington, D.C., July 29, 2020
Invited Speaker, Summer Academy On Law, Money And Technology: Transforming Political Economy University of
Manchester School of Law, University of Manchester Law School, Manchester, England, July 15, 2020
Invited Speaker, Paper Selected for Presentation, The Disparate Impact of Digital Surveillance, Privacy Law
Scholars Conference, UC Berkeley Law School, Berkeley, CA – June 4, 2020
Invited Speaker, Regulating Intermediary Risk in Fintech, Institute for New Economic Thinking Young Scholars
Initiative, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY – April 2020
Invited Speaker, Underscoring Consumer Credit, Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy
Symposium, Notre Dame Law School, South Bend, IN, March 19, 2020
Invited Lecturer, Ethically Bounded Artificial Intelligence, Tulane University, School of Science and Engineering,
Biomedical Engineering Department, New Orleans, LA March 2020
Invited Lecture, Women in Artificial Intelligence: Building Diverse Coalitions, Tulane University, H Sophie
Newcomb Memorial College Institute, New Orleans, LA, February 28, 2020
Invited Speaker, Fintech Roundtable on the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Decision to Charter
Fintech Firms, American Association of Law Schools, Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., January 5, 2020
Invited Lecturer, Gordon Gamm Comparative Law and Justice Symposium, Tulane University, School of Law, New
Orleans, LA, November 8, 2019
Invited Speaker, Regulating Decentralized Finance: Cryptocurrency Exchanges, Program on Ethics, Compliance, &
Inclusion, Notre Dame Law School, South Bend, IN, October 24, 2019
Invited Speaker, Examining the Use of Alternative Data in Underwriting and Credit Scoring to Expand Access to
Credit, 116th Cong (testimony before the United States House of Representatives, Financial Services
Committee, Task Force on Financial Technology and Artificial Intelligence, Washington, D.C., July 25, 2019 Invited Speaker, Automating the Risk of Bias, National Business Law Scholars Conference, UC Berkeley Law
School, Berkeley, CA, June 21, 2019
Invited Speaker, AI: Responsible Innovation, Association of the Promotion of Political Economy and
the Law, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, Baltimore, MD, June 3 2019
Invited Speaker, Artificial Intelligence and the Law: Fairness, Bias and Inclusion Concerns, American Law Institute
Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C May 2019
Invited Lecturer, Fairness and Bias in Artificial Intelligence, Capital One Forum, New York, NY, May 21 2019 Invited Speaker, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Bias in Finance: Toward Responsible Innovation, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University School of Law, Durham, NC April 19, 2019
Invited Speaker, Decentralized Finance: Regulating Cryptocurrency Exchanges, Investigating Intersections of
Corporate Governance & Compliance, Notre Dame Law School, London, England, April 12, 2019
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University Law School, Yale Information Society Project, New Haven, CT April 2019
Invited Panelist, Educating Educators about Blockchain, SXSW, SXSW EDU, Austin, TX, March 2019
Invited Panelist, National People of Color Conference, American University George Washington College of
Law, Washington, D.C March 23, 2019
Santa Clara University Law School, Santa Clara, CA, March 2, 2019
NY, February 15, 2019
Invited Speaker, Securities Regulation Section Program, American Association of Law Schools, Annual Meeting,
Washington D.C., January 7, 2019
Invited Speaker, Regulating Cryptocurrency Secondary Market Trading Platforms, American Association of Law
Schools, Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., January 5, 2019
Invited Speaker, Commentator, Business Associations Section Program, Veronica Root Martinez, Complex
Compliance Investigations, 102 Columbia Law Review 249 (2019), American Association of Law Schools, Annual
Meeting, Washington D.C., January 5, 2019
Invited Panelist, Challenges and Opportunities for Teaching, Transactional Law Section Program, American
Association of Law Schools, Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., January 5, 2019
Invited Panelist, Balancing Scholarship, Teaching and Service to Succeed on the Tenure Track, New Law Teachers
Program American Association of Law Schools, Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., January 5, 2019
Invited Speaker, Digital Debt at Money as a Democratic Medium Study of Capitalism, Institute for Global Law
and Policy, The Murphy Institute – Tulane University, the Harvard Law Forum, and Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, December 14, 2018
Invited Speaker, Banking on Blockchain, National Business Law Scholars Conference, University of Georgia Law
School, Athens, GA, June 21, 2018
Invited Panelist, Underscoring Consumer Credit, University of California (Irvine) Law School, Irvine, CA, March 16, 2018
Faculty Colloquium, Banking on Blockchain, Notre Dame Law School, South Bend, IN, March 1, 2018
Invited Speaker, Regulating Cryptocurrency Secondary Market Trading Platforms, Cardozo Blockchain Workshop,
New York, NY, January 2018
Invited Lecturer, Regulating Innovation: High Frequency Trading in Dark Pools, Washington & Lee University Law
School, Lexington, VA September 10, 2017
Conference Workshop, Regulating Innovation: High Frequency Trading in Dark Pools at Lutie Lytle Workshop
University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, MI July 2017
Conference Workshop, Managing Cyber Risks, National Business Law Scholars Conference, University of
Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL, June 2016
Faculty Colloquium, Diversifying to Manage Risk, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, IN,
November 2015
Faculty Colloquium, Extraterritorial Regulation of Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act in Financial Markets, University
of Alabama Law School, Tuscaloosa, AL October 2015
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Lytle Workshop, Vanderbilt Law School, Nashville, TN, July 2015
Faculty Colloquium, Extraterritorial Regulation of Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act in Financial Markets, University
of California (Davis) Law School, Davis, CA, March 2015
Conference Workshop, Extraterritorial Application of Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act, University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, WI, Lutie Lytle Workshop, June 2014
Invited Speaker, Developing Regulation Post-Crisis, AALS Mid-Year Corporate Conference, D.C., Washington,
D.C., June 2014
Faculty Colloquium, Extraterritorial Application of Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act, Washington & Lee
University Law School, Lexington, VA, November 2013
Invited Speaker, Complexity, Complacency, and Collaboration: International Regulation of Financial Markets,
Corporate Law Workshop Series, Fordham University Law School, New York, NY March 2013
Faculty Colloquium, Governing Financial Markets: Regulating Conflicts, S.J Quinney College of Law, University
of Utah Law School, Salt Lake City, UT, February 12, 2013
Invited Speaker, Governing Financial Markets: Regulating Conflicts, Corporate Law Workshop Series, Ohio State
University, Moritz College of Law, Columbus, OH, December 2012
Invited Speaker, The Promise of “New Governance,” at Corporate Law Workshop, Georgetown University Law
Center, Washington, D.C., February 2012
Invited Speaker, Implementing the Dodd-Frank Amid Reform Fatigue, AALS Annual Meeting, Section on Financial
Institutions, Washington D.C., January 2012
Invited Speaker, Hedging vs Speculation: Market Efficiency, Social Perceptions, and Legal Distinctions, Canadian
Law & Economics Association Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, September 2011
Invited Speaker, International Perspectives on Derivative Regulation, Inaugural Global Finance Symposium
Fordham University Law School London Centre, London, England June 2011
Invited Speaker, Response to Abraham L Pomerantz Lecture delivered by Frank Partnoy: Don't Blink: Snap Decisions
and Securities Regulation, Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, NY, March 2011
Invited Speaker, SEC/CFTC Joint Roundtable, Issues Related to Clearing Credit Default Swaps, The Commodity
Futures Trading Commission, Washington, D.C., October 2010
B LOGGING
Fintech Beats Podcast (Co-host with Chris Brummer, Georgetown Law School) March 2, 2021
The Conglomerate (Guest Blogger) November 2009
Concurring Opinions (Guest Blogger) February 2010, June 2010
P ROFESSIONAL S ERVICE
Roundtable Discussion on Current Issues in The Financial Services hosted by the National Association of Securities
Professionals - NY Town Hall Meeting, June 2009
B OARDS OF D IRECTORS
• Association for the Promotion of Political Economy and the Law – 2018 – 2021
• National Business Law Scholars Conference – 2013 – 2021
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Brief of Thirty-Three Banking Law Scholars As Amici Curiae in Support of Plaintiff-Appellee, Linda A Lacewell,
in her official capacity as Superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services in Linda A Lacewell v Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and Joseph M Ottig, in his official capacity as U.S Comptroller of the Currency 19-4271 (2020)
Brief of the University of Michigan Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, the University of Michigan Black Law Students’ Alliance, the University of Michigan Latino Law Students Association, and the University of Michigan Native American Law Students Association as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents The Supreme Court of the United States (2002)
M EDIA C OMMENTARY
Washington Post; Wired; Bloomberg; Law360, Los Angeles Times; National Public Radio; New Jersey Star Ledger; Louisiana Weekly; Diverse Issues in Higher Education
S ELECTED E XAMPLES O F P ROFESSIONAL A ND C IVIC E NGAGEMENT
The Esther Project - International Women and Girls Empowerment Program
• Board of Directors – 2019 – 2021
HerJustice.Org
• Pro Bono Legal Services – 2003 – 2004; 2005- 2007
Human Rights First
• Pro Bono Legal Services – 2003 – 2004; 2005- 2007
Redeemer Short Term Mission, Lima, Peru – Spring 2005
• Team Leader of Mission Supporting Homeless Children’s Shelter
B AR A DMISSIONS
New York, 2004
L ANGUAGES
Spanish, French, Portuguese