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Kristin Johnson
Kristin Johnson

Biography

Professor Johnson is the McGlinchey Stafford Professor of Law at Tulane University Law School, Associate Dean for Faculty Research, an affiliate of the Murphy Institute for Political Economy and the Gordon Gamm Faculty Scholar.  Professor Johnson is nationally recognized as a leading scholar of financial risk management and corporate law. She has presented her research on systemic risk, risk management, cyber risk regulation, emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence and distributed digital ledger technologies, in finance and macroprudential financial markets regulation throughout the United States and abroad. Professor Johnson is an elected member of the American Law Institute and an American Bar Association Fellow. She has been a Visiting Professor at the University of California-Irvine, University of Florida, University of Illinois, and Washington & Lee University Law Schools.

Professor Johnson served as Assistant General Counsel and Vice President at JP Morgan and an associate at Simpson, Thacher and Bartlett LLP’s New York and London offices where she represented issuers and underwriters in domestic and international debt and equity offerings, lenders and borrowers in banking and credit matters, and private equity firms and publicly-traded companies in mergers and acquisitions. Professor Johnson clerked for the Honorable Joseph A. Greenaway, Jr., then of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, elevated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Before law school she served as an analyst at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Professor Johnson is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and received a B.S. in comparative economics, with honors, and the University of Michigan Law School, where she received a J.D. and served as a Notes Editor on the Michigan Law Review.

 

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Courses Taught

  • Business Enterprises
  • Securities Regulation
  • Corporate Compliance & Risk Management Seminar

 

Selected Publications

  • CrytoTrading Platforms University of Chicago Law Review Online  (2019) (forthcoming).
  • Balancing Scholarship, Teaching and Service to Succeed on the Tenure Track – A Workshop for Pretenure Colleagues and Faculty Aspirants, Journal of Legal Education (Forthcoming 2019)
  • Examining the Use of Alternative Data in Underwriting and Credit Scoring to Expand Access to Credit, 116th Cong. ___ (2019) (written testimony submitted to the United States House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services Task Force on Financial Technology and Artificial Intelligence Task Force, Thursday, July 25, 2019), available here.
  • Digital Debt, 87 George Washington Law Review (Forthcoming 2019) (invited symposium)
  • Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Bias in Finance: Toward Responsible Innovation, 88 Fordham Law Review 499 (2019)(co-authored with Frank Pasquale and Jennifer Smith Chapman)
  • (Im)Perfect Regulation: Virtual Currency and Other Digital Assets as Collateral, 21 SMU SCI. & TECH. L. REV. 115 (2019) (invited symposium)
  • Regulating Innovation: High Frequency Trading in Dark Pools, 42 Journal of Corporation Law 833 (2017) (invited symposium)
  •  Banking On Diversity: Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Firms’ Risk Oversight, 70 SMU L. REV. 327 (2017)
  • Cyber Risks: Emerging Risk Management Concerns for Financial Institutions, 50 Georgia Law Review 131 (2015)
  • Governing Financial Markets: Regulating Conflicts, 88 Washington Law Review 185 (2013)
  • Macroprudential Regulation: A Sustainable Approach to Regulating Financial Markets, 2013 University of Illinois Law Review 881 (2013), (invited symposium), reprinted in the SECURITIES LAW REVIEW (2014)
  • Things Fall Apart: Regulating Credit Default Swaps, 82 University of Colorado Law Review 167 (2011) 
  • Resolving the Title VII Partner-Employee Debate, 101 Michigan Law Review 1067 (2003)

General Publications 

  • Addressing Gaps in The Dodd-Frank Act: Directors’ Risk Management Oversight Obligations, 45 U. MICH. J. L. REF. 55 (2011)
  • Diversifying To Mitigate Risk: Can Dodd-Frank Section 342 Help Stabilize the Financial Sector?, 73 WASH. & LEE L. REV.1795 (2016)  (co-authored with Steven Ramirez and Cary Martin Shelby)
  • Managing Cyber Risks, 50 GA. L. REV. 547 (2016) (invited symposium)
  • New Guiding Principles: Macroprudential Solutions To Risk Management Oversight and Systemic Risk Concerns, 11 U. St. Thomas L. J. 386 (2014) (invited symposium co-authored with Steven Ramirez)