Kim Krawiec, Author at The Faculty Lounge

Taboo Trades Podcast: Taboo Patents

My guests today are Andrew Gilden, Southwestern Law School, and Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec, William & Mary Law School. They join me today to discuss their recent paper, Patenting the…

Kim Krawiec February 10, 2026No Comments

Taboo And Repugnant Roundup (Week of 2/2/26)

This week’s Taboo & Repugnant Roundup engages three distinct items that surface recurring anxieties about morally charged exchanges. The post opens with a critical response to a recent guest essay…

Kim Krawiec February 2, 2026No Comments

Markets in Human Organs for Transplantation Now Available!

A new edited volume, Markets in Human Organs for Transplantation: Controversy and Contention (James Stacey Taylor & Mark Cherry, eds.), is now available in hardcover and ebook. The book revisits…

Kim Krawiec January 26, 2026No Comments

Donation, Compensation, and the Moral Grammar of Biological Materials

Debates over paid plasma donation tend to cycle through familiar frames: altruistic gift, moral corruption, or exploitation of the vulnerable. This post steps back and asks a different question: what…

Kim Krawiec January 21, 2026No Comments

Washington & Lee Call For Submissions

W&L’S BLUE MOUNTAIN WRITING RETREAT CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Washington and Lee University School of Law (“W&L Law”) invites up to ten tenure-track or tenured legal scholars to join its faculty…

Kim Krawiec January 15, 2026No Comments

Taboo and Repugnant Roundup (Week of 1/12/26)

This week’s roundup spans symbolic honors, moral limits of markets, and biomedical supply chains. It opens with the Nobel Committee’s statement reaffirming the inalienability of the Nobel Prize after Trump-related…

Kim Krawiec January 12, 2026No Comments

Taboo and Repugnant Roundup: Week of 1/5/26

The latest Taboo & Repugnant Roundup includes three items that span organ transplantation, end-of-life law, and the classroom. First is further discussion of the New York Times profile of the…

Kim Krawiec January 6, 2026No Comments

Taboo and Repugnant Roundup (Week of 12/29/25)

This week’s Taboo & Repugnant Roundup covers three developments at the intersection of law, health policy, and institutional design. The post begins with the Trump executive order directing DOJ and…

Kim Krawiec January 1, 2026

Taboo and Repugnant Roundup (Week of 12/22/25)

This week’s Taboo & Repugnant Roundup brings together three developments that illuminate how law engages morally contested markets. First, Markets in Human Organs for Transplantation: Controversy and Contention (Taylor &…

Kim Krawiec December 27, 2025

Taboo and Repugnant Roundup (Week of 12-18-25)

This week’s Taboo & Repugnant Roundup spans human challenge trials, egg donation markets in the United States and Spain, sperm donor genetics, and kidney transplantation. At first glance, these stories…

Kim Krawiec December 18, 2025