KRISTIN N. JOHNSON Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law Emory University School of Law 1301 Clifton Rd., NE, Atlanta, GA 30322 [email protected] Faculty Profile • Scholarship • Google Scholar •Twitter @ProfKNJ LEGAL ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS CURRENT ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT Emory Law School, Atlanta, GA Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law – 2021 to Present PREVIOUS ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Tulane University Law School, New Orleans, LA Associate Dean of Faculty Research – (2018 – 2020) McGlinchey Stafford Professor of Law – (2018 – 2020) Law School Dean’s Executive Cabinet – (January 2019 – December 2020) Vice President of University Research Deans Council, Member – (2019 – 2020) Faculty Governance - Intellectual Life Committee (2019 – 2021); Promotion & Tenure (2019 – 2021); First Year Curriculum (2019 – 2020); Appointments Searches: Research Professor (Chair, 2019 – 2020); Murphy Institute VAP and Yongxiong Fellowship (2018 – 2019); International Programs, Xiangtan Planning Committee (2018 – 2019) Gordon Gamm Research Scholar– (2019 – 2020) Primary organizer of endowed conference: 2019 Gamm Comparative Law and Justice Symposium o The Implications of Artificial Intelligence For A Just Society – 2019 Murphy Institute Center on Law and the Economy, Affiliated Faculty– (2018 – 2020) Director, Financial Stability Program Primary organizer of Tulane-SMU Annual Crypto-Economics & The Law Workshop Seton Hall University Law School, Newark, NJ Professor of Law – (2013 – 2018) 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) Associate Professor of Law – (2008 – 2013) 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) VISITING ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 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 Page 1 of 9 Kristin N. Johnson Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law Emory University School of Law 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 ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS BOOKS RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & THE LAW (CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS) (Forthcoming 2022)(with Carla Reyes). ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & THE LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS (ASPEN SERIES)(Forthcoming 2022)(with Carla Reyes). BOOK CHAPTERS Algorithmic Corporate Governance, In A RESEARCH 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, Kelli Alces Williams, and Anne Choike, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS)(Forthcoming 2020)(with Carla Reyes). Innovating Heists: Regulating Cyber Threats in the Financial Services Industry in MOST IMPORTANT CONCEPTS IN FINANCE (Ed., Benton Gup)(Edward Elgar 2017) (SSRN). FULL LENGTH JOURNAL ARTICLES AND ESSAYS The Disparate Impact of Digital Surveillance, 101 BOSTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW__ (Forthcoming 2021)(with Daiquiri J. Steele). Disintermediation and Decentralization in Financial Markets, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW SCHOOL REGULATORY REVIEW (May 5, 2021) Reprinted GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL REGULATORY DIGEST) (SSRN). 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). Decentralized Finance: Regulating Cryptocurrency Exchanges, 62 WILLIAM & MARY LAW REVIEW 1911 (2021) (SSRN). The Implications of Artificial Intelligence For A Just Society, JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL & COMPARATIVE LAW (Forthcoming)(2021)(with Carla Reyes). Regulating Cryptocurrency Secondary Market Trading Platforms, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW REVIEW ONLINE (January 2020)(invited symposium)(SSRN). Automating the Risk of Bias, 87 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 1214 (2019) (invited 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). (Im)Perfect Regulation: Virtual Currency and Other Digital Assets as Collateral, 21 SMU SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LAW REVIEW 115 (2019)(invited symposium)(with Sarah Hsu & Stanley Sater). Page 2 of 9 Kristin N. Johnson Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law Emory University School of Law 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). Regulating Innovation: High Frequency Trading in Dark Pools, 42 J. CORP. L. 833 (2017)(SSRN). Banking On Diversity: Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Firms’ Risk Oversight?, 70 SMU LAW 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). Managing Cyber Risks, 50 GEORGIA LAW REVIEW 547 (2016) (SSRN). Cyber Risks: Emerging Risk Management Concerns for Financial Institutions, 50 GEORGIA LAW REVIEW 131 (2015) (invited symposium) (SSRN). Governing Financial Markets: Regulating Conflicts, 88 WASHINGTON LAW REVIEW 185 (2013) (SSRN). Macroprudential Regulation: A Sustainable Approach to Regulating Financial Markets, 2013 U. ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW 881 (2013) (symposium) (SSRN). Selected as one of the best securities law journal articles of the year and reprinted in the SECURITIES LAW REVIEW (Donald C. Langevoort ed., 2014) Things Fall Apart: Regulating Credit Default Swaps, 82 U. COLO. L. REV.167 (2011) (SSRN). Cited in Bloomberg L.P. v. CFTC, 949 F. Supp. 2d 91 (2013) (U.S. Court of Appeals, Dist. of Columbia) Cited in Quadrant Struct. Prods. Co. v. Vertin, 23 N.Y.3d 549 (2014)(Court of Appeals of New York) Addressing Gaps in The Dodd-Frank Act: Directors’ Risk Management Oversight Obligations, 45 U. MICH. J. L. REF. 55 (2011) (SSRN). Cited in In re EZCORP Inc., 2016 Del. Ch. LEXIS 14, 2016 WL 301245 (Court of Chancery of Delaware) STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Resolving the Title VII Partner-Employee Debate, 101 MICH. L. REV. 1067 (2003) (SSRN). In the Supreme Court of the United States Barbara Grutter, Petitioner, v. Lee Bollinger, et al., Respondents. On Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 10 MICH. J. GENDER & L. 7 (2003) (co-authored with Jerome S. Hirsch, et al.) WORKS IN PROGRESS Underscoring Consumer Privacy Algorithmic Corporate Governance Decentralized Platform Governance Discrediting Financial Inclusion Automating the Administrative State LEGAL PRACTICE AND FINANCIAL MARKETS EXPERIENCE 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 Page 3 of 9 Kristin N. Johnson Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law Emory University School of Law JUDICIAL CLERKSHIP THE HONORABLE JOSEPH A. GREENWAY, JR. District Court for the District of New Jersey – 2004-2005 Elevated to U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LAW SCHOOL, 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 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service, Washington, D.C. 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, 1997-1998 Phi Alpha Theta President, School of Foreign Service Academic Council Georgetown University L’Institute Touraine, Tours, France (French Language Immersion Program, received Written and Oral Language Proficiency Certification) Summer 1997 Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador (Spanish Language Immersion Program, received Written and Oral Language Proficiency Certification) Summer 1996 AWARDS & HONORS Elected Member, American Law Institute – 2016 – Present American Bar Foundation Fellow – 2016 – Present Outstanding