Kim Krawiec
@kimkrawiec.bsky.social
Law Prof, University of Virginia. Taboo and repugnant markets, contracts, business law. Host of the Taboo Trades podcast https://tabootrades.buzzsprout.com https://www.law.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/kdk4q/1181653
“A separation and divorce between two USC Law professors led one to file suit against the university, alleging it did not protect her from a hostile work environment she claims was perpetrated by her ex-husband.”
USC Denies Law Professor's Allegations of Mishandling Discrimination, Harassment Claims| Law.com
A separation and divorce between two USC Law professors led one to file suit against the university, alleging it did not protect her from a hostile work environment she claims was perpetrated by her e...
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December 1, 2025 at 12:14 AM
“A separation and divorce between two USC Law professors led one to file suit against the university, alleging it did not protect her from a hostile work environment she claims was perpetrated by her ex-husband.”
Generous ex-post, but illegal ex-ante 😀 "Former Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar marked Thanksgiving by donating $25,000 to the family of the organ donor who saved his life, just days after he was discharged from University Hospitals following a successful liver transplant."
Timing makes a big difference here, legally speaking.
#econsky #transplantation
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#econsky #transplantation
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Gift to deceased donor family (generous ex-post, but illegal ex-ante)
marketdesigner.blogspot.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Generous ex-post, but illegal ex-ante 😀 "Former Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar marked Thanksgiving by donating $25,000 to the family of the organ donor who saved his life, just days after he was discharged from University Hospitals following a successful liver transplant."
In case anyone is interested in what they gave me as a gift -- it's a Yeti thermos. Because I envied their fancy thermoses all semester and confessed I had never owned one b/c "I got one from Walmart cheaper." They were having none of it, thankfully 😂
And that’s a wrap! Our final #RepugnantTransactions meeting of the semester, complete w/ gifts & a guest visit from UCLAs Gabriel Rossman. Gosh I love these @uvalaw.bsky.social students!! One of many “Holy cow I get paid to do this?!?” moments
November 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
In case anyone is interested in what they gave me as a gift -- it's a Yeti thermos. Because I envied their fancy thermoses all semester and confessed I had never owned one b/c "I got one from Walmart cheaper." They were having none of it, thankfully 😂
Interesting article on Chicago economists & Feeding America: “The entire system relied on generosity, and it did receive immense generosity, but lacked any of the institutional structure that would allow that generosity to turn into something bigger.”
How to actually feed America
Good intentions matter, but good systems turn generosity into abundance.
www.slowboring.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Interesting article on Chicago economists & Feeding America: “The entire system relied on generosity, and it did receive immense generosity, but lacked any of the institutional structure that would allow that generosity to turn into something bigger.”
Indian fieldwork: egg donors who don’t know compensation is illegal, intermediaries bearing the risk, and clinics navigating a gray zone.
Listen: www.buzzsprout.com/1227113/epis...
Listen: www.buzzsprout.com/1227113/epis...
Reproductive Labor in India with Prabha Kotiswaran - Taboo Trades
My guest today is Prabha Kotiswaran, a Professor of Law & Social Justice at King’s College London. Professor Kotiswaran’s main areas of research include criminal law, transnational criminal law,…
www.buzzsprout.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Indian fieldwork: egg donors who don’t know compensation is illegal, intermediaries bearing the risk, and clinics navigating a gray zone.
Listen: www.buzzsprout.com/1227113/epis...
Listen: www.buzzsprout.com/1227113/epis...
Private courts, designer-gene futures, plasma markets, and the collapse of a key ethics journal—this week’s roundup examines institutional shifts in repugnant and contested markets.
Full post: kimberlydkrawiec.substack.com/p/taboo-and-...
Full post: kimberlydkrawiec.substack.com/p/taboo-and-...
Taboo and Repugnant Roundup (Week of 11/25)
Thoughts on taboo trades, repugnant markets, and academia this week
kimberlydkrawiec.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Private courts, designer-gene futures, plasma markets, and the collapse of a key ethics journal—this week’s roundup examines institutional shifts in repugnant and contested markets.
Full post: kimberlydkrawiec.substack.com/p/taboo-and-...
Full post: kimberlydkrawiec.substack.com/p/taboo-and-...
This week's roundup spans private adjudication, the decline of a major ethics journal, emerging “libertarian eugenics,” and comparative plasma policy data.
kimberlydkrawiec.substack.com/p/taboo-and-...
kimberlydkrawiec.substack.com/p/taboo-and-...
Taboo and Repugnant Roundup (Week of 11/25)
Thoughts on taboo trades, repugnant markets, and academia this week
kimberlydkrawiec.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:31 AM
This week's roundup spans private adjudication, the decline of a major ethics journal, emerging “libertarian eugenics,” and comparative plasma policy data.
kimberlydkrawiec.substack.com/p/taboo-and-...
kimberlydkrawiec.substack.com/p/taboo-and-...
Egg donors in India come largely from precarious labor sectors while clinics hold the power. A sharp look at inequality in reproductive labor.
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🎧 www.buzzsprout.com/1227113/epis...
Reproductive Labor in India with Prabha Kotiswaran - Taboo Trades
My guest today is Prabha Kotiswaran, a Professor of Law & Social Justice at King’s College London. Professor Kotiswaran’s main areas of research include criminal law, transnational criminal law,…
www.buzzsprout.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Egg donors in India come largely from precarious labor sectors while clinics hold the power. A sharp look at inequality in reproductive labor.
🎧 www.buzzsprout.com/1227113/epis...
🎧 www.buzzsprout.com/1227113/epis...
The administration asked a Penn court to compel Penn “to turn over the names and contact information of some Jewish employees and students. In recent days, students, faculty members, on-campus Jewish groups and others have rallied around Penn officials’ decision not to disclose the information.”
Penn Refuses to Disclose Jewish Faculty, Student Names
The Trump administration asked the university to hand over personal information for the members of Jewish clubs and organizations as well as the Jewish Studies department.
www.insidehighered.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The administration asked a Penn court to compel Penn “to turn over the names and contact information of some Jewish employees and students. In recent days, students, faculty members, on-campus Jewish groups and others have rallied around Penn officials’ decision not to disclose the information.”
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One of our dearest friends comes to town every year, we drink heavily, have a first course of caviar and a main course of nachos. It is the best way to Thanksgiving.
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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I missed the news that my former colleague, George Christie, recently passed. RIP George
George Custis Christie Obituary November 4, 2025 - Hall Wynne Funeral Home
View George Custis Christie's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I missed the news that my former colleague, George Christie, recently passed. RIP George
Didn't know this bit until @alroth.bsky.social's post: "Journals like AMA JoE operate a year or more in advance, so multiple authors & editors of upcoming issues for 2026-2027 were left in the lurch by this unexpected announcement. . .some of which have already undergone extensive editorial review"
A wide-ranging set of developments this week: private judges, the shuttering of the AMA Journal of Ethics, pronatalist gene-editing debates, and Jaworski’s new plasma brief.
Full analysis: kimberlydkrawiec.substack.com/p/taboo-and-...
Full analysis: kimberlydkrawiec.substack.com/p/taboo-and-...
Taboo and Repugnant Roundup (Week of 11/25)
Thoughts on taboo trades, repugnant markets, and academia this week
kimberlydkrawiec.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Didn't know this bit until @alroth.bsky.social's post: "Journals like AMA JoE operate a year or more in advance, so multiple authors & editors of upcoming issues for 2026-2027 were left in the lurch by this unexpected announcement. . .some of which have already undergone extensive editorial review"
Reposted by Kim Krawiec
My latest article, “The Legal Somatics of Body Bequests Before the Anatomy Act 1832”, is published in Mortality, an interdisciplinary journal on death and dying. In the article, I analyze the medico-legal history of 18th- and 19th-century body bequests in England and Ireland. doi.org/10.1080/1357...
The legal somatics of body bequests before the Anatomy Act 1832
Without the authority of legislation in the United Kingdom, some bequeathed their bodies to physicians, surgeons and apothecaries to dissect and create anatomical specimens in the eighteenth and ea...
doi.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:18 AM
My latest article, “The Legal Somatics of Body Bequests Before the Anatomy Act 1832”, is published in Mortality, an interdisciplinary journal on death and dying. In the article, I analyze the medico-legal history of 18th- and 19th-century body bequests in England and Ireland. doi.org/10.1080/1357...
A wide-ranging set of developments this week: private judges, the shuttering of the AMA Journal of Ethics, pronatalist gene-editing debates, and Jaworski’s new plasma brief.
Full analysis: kimberlydkrawiec.substack.com/p/taboo-and-...
Full analysis: kimberlydkrawiec.substack.com/p/taboo-and-...
Taboo and Repugnant Roundup (Week of 11/25)
Thoughts on taboo trades, repugnant markets, and academia this week
kimberlydkrawiec.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:28 PM
A wide-ranging set of developments this week: private judges, the shuttering of the AMA Journal of Ethics, pronatalist gene-editing debates, and Jaworski’s new plasma brief.
Full analysis: kimberlydkrawiec.substack.com/p/taboo-and-...
Full analysis: kimberlydkrawiec.substack.com/p/taboo-and-...
Should India return to its laissez-faire ART era, refine altruistic models, or design an entirely new framework focused on workers’ rights? We reflect on constitutional challenges & the prospects for compensated, rights-protective surrogacy.
Full episode:
Full episode:
Reproductive Labor in India with Prabha Kotiswaran - Taboo Trades
My guest today is Prabha Kotiswaran, a Professor of Law & Social Justice at King’s College London. Professor Kotiswaran’s main areas of research include criminal law, transnational criminal law, feminist...
www.buzzsprout.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Should India return to its laissez-faire ART era, refine altruistic models, or design an entirely new framework focused on workers’ rights? We reflect on constitutional challenges & the prospects for compensated, rights-protective surrogacy.
Full episode:
Full episode:
And that’s a wrap! Our final #RepugnantTransactions meeting of the semester, complete w/ gifts & a guest visit from UCLAs Gabriel Rossman. Gosh I love these @uvalaw.bsky.social students!! One of many “Holy cow I get paid to do this?!?” moments
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 AM
And that’s a wrap! Our final #RepugnantTransactions meeting of the semester, complete w/ gifts & a guest visit from UCLAs Gabriel Rossman. Gosh I love these @uvalaw.bsky.social students!! One of many “Holy cow I get paid to do this?!?” moments
“This essay studies this trade using two case studies, one of a Nigerian leading legislator arrested in the UK for getting a kidney for his daughter and another on kidney demand in Iran where trade in organs is permitted.”
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
“This essay studies this trade using two case studies, one of a Nigerian leading legislator arrested in the UK for getting a kidney for his daughter and another on kidney demand in Iran where trade in organs is permitted.”
How do caste, class, and national identity shape India’s decisions on reproductive labor? And why did concerns about “international shame” help drive the ban on commercial surrogacy? A nuanced conversation with Prabha Kotiswaran on the latest Taboo Trades.
🎧 www.buzzsprout.com/1227113/epis...
🎧 www.buzzsprout.com/1227113/epis...
Reproductive Labor in India with Prabha Kotiswaran - Taboo Trades
My guest today is Prabha Kotiswaran, a Professor of Law & Social Justice at King’s College London. Professor Kotiswaran’s main areas of research include criminal law, transnational criminal law, f...
www.buzzsprout.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
How do caste, class, and national identity shape India’s decisions on reproductive labor? And why did concerns about “international shame” help drive the ban on commercial surrogacy? A nuanced conversation with Prabha Kotiswaran on the latest Taboo Trades.
🎧 www.buzzsprout.com/1227113/epis...
🎧 www.buzzsprout.com/1227113/epis...
In this week's Substack: private judges, the closure of the AMA Journal of Ethics, debates over libertarian eugenics, and new international plasma data from Peter Jaworski.
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Taboo and Repugnant Roundup (Week of 11/25)
Thoughts on taboo trades, repugnant markets, and academia this week
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
In this week's Substack: private judges, the closure of the AMA Journal of Ethics, debates over libertarian eugenics, and new international plasma data from Peter Jaworski.
Read here:
Read here:
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Ahem. "You can pry the end dash—which AI risks ruining—out of my cold, dead hands."
November 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Ahem. "You can pry the end dash—which AI risks ruining—out of my cold, dead hands."
Reposted by Kim Krawiec
"Stephanie Nelson was married for four months. The fight over the embryos she and her ex-husband created lasted for years."
She Saved for Years for IVF, Then Had to Fight Her Ex for the Embryos
Costly and emotionally taxing efforts to have children can be jeopardized when couples split.
www.wsj.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:22 AM
"Stephanie Nelson was married for four months. The fight over the embryos she and her ex-husband created lasted for years."
"They used a company that specialized in an obscure but vital component of the business: managing the large sums of money from parents to pay surrogates. [But] SEAM’s owner used the money—up to $16 million—to fund her recording studio, rap career and a vegan luxury clothing brand"
Surrogacy Is a Multibillion-Dollar Business. Sometimes the Money Goes Missing.
The growing industry has little regulation and many cases of financial abuse, including escrow funds taken to pay gambling debts or to buy bitcoin.
www.wsj.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
"They used a company that specialized in an obscure but vital component of the business: managing the large sums of money from parents to pay surrogates. [But] SEAM’s owner used the money—up to $16 million—to fund her recording studio, rap career and a vegan luxury clothing brand"
Reposted by Kim Krawiec
I don’t think I would have believed it without seeing it, so here’s the relevant part of the EEOC memo: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I don’t think I would have believed it without seeing it, so here’s the relevant part of the EEOC memo: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
“A more recent part of the surge is elective IVF — still a small share of overall IVF cycles — in which people who could conceive naturally choose IVF to screen embryos for genetic traits linked to cancer risk, IQ, height and more.”
Elective IVF gains traction. Doctors have concerns.
Screening companies promise "generational health," but doctors say the science behind scoring embryos for complex conditions is shaky.
www.axios.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
“A more recent part of the surge is elective IVF — still a small share of overall IVF cycles — in which people who could conceive naturally choose IVF to screen embryos for genetic traits linked to cancer risk, IQ, height and more.”