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Taboo Trades: Boycotts, Shunning & Shaming with Scott Altman

Scott Altman observes that people organizing a boycott tend to imagine themselves participating in the Montgomery bus boycott. Their targets tend to imagine a McCarthy-era purge. Scott joins me and…
Posted by Kim Krawiec November 4, 2026No Comments

Taboo Trades: “NIL Buyouts, Liquidated Damages, and Disguised Noncompetes with Dave Hoffman.”

College sports is experimenting with a new contractual device: transfer-triggered “buyouts” in athletes’ name, image, and likeness (NIL) agreements. Are these provisions legitimate estimates of a school’s difficult-to-measure losses, or…
Posted by Kim Krawiec October 19, 2026No Comments

Just Posted: The Smallest State’s Big Experiment

For nearly 30 years, Rhode Island policed prostitution it didn’t prohibit. My new paper, “The Smallest State’s Big Experiment,” revisits that history through Alvin Roth’s latest book, Moral Economics. Now…
Posted by Kim Krawiec October 13, 2026No Comments

Taboo Trades Podcast: Survival Labor with Yvette Butler

When does crime become work—and why does the legal system recognize some harmful activities as legitimate labor while criminalizing other activities undertaken to secure food, shelter, safety, or family survival?…
Posted by Kim Krawiec October 11, 2026No Comments

Taboo Trades: Jason Brennan and Peter Jaworski on Markets Without Limits

If you may do something for free, is there always some way you may do it for money? Jason Brennan and Peter Jaworski join me on Taboo Trades to discuss…
Posted by Kim Krawiec September 28, 2026No Comments

Taboo Trades: June Carbone on The Crisis of Boys and Men

Academic collaborations sometimes begin in disagreement. June Carbone and Clare Huntington approached the legal rights of unmarried fathers from different perspectives, but their debate ultimately produced “Fatherhood, Family Law, and…
Posted by Kim Krawiec September 16, 2026No Comments

Taboo Trades Podcast: Welcome to Season 7!

We're baaaack! With season 7 of the Taboo Trades podcast. Meet the 2026 UVA Law student co-hosts in our welcome episode.
Posted by Kim Krawiec September 5, 2026No Comments

This Week’s Substack: Surrogacy Is Complicated

Gestational-surrogacy agreements commonly address termination and selective reduction in advance; professional guidance recommends doing so. But advance agreement doesn't eliminate conflict when the parties later disagree. A court wouldn't compel…
Posted by Kim Krawiec August 31, 2026No Comments

When Surrogacy Became A National Security Threat: New Substack Post

International surrogacy appears to constitute only a small and poorly measured share of American surrogacy births—and an even smaller share of the births at the center of the national birthright-citizenship…
Posted by Kim Krawiec July 27, 2026No Comments

Give Blood, Get Stuff: Just Don’t Call It Payment

Blood is supposed to be given, not sold. That is the organizing ideal behind the World Health Organization’s push for “100% voluntary, nonremunerated” blood donation. But real-world blood systems are…
Posted by Kim Krawiec July 8, 2026No Comments

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