ANITA
KRUG
Ñ CIVIL PROCEDURE Ñ TORTS Ñ COMPLEX LITIGATION
SECURITIES REGULATION Ò MERGERS Ò CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Ò
ELIZABETH
PORTER Professor Anita Krug, UW Law’s resident expert
securities regulation, corporate governance and
Professor Elizabeth Porter has had a truly
honored with a university-wide Distinguished
on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), recently
business acquisitions. She was recently appointed
exceptional year as a scholar and as a teacher.
Teaching Award, which is given to only seven
helped found an innovative new institute devoted
to the role of Associate Dean for Research
Her scholarship focuses on the influence of
faculty members each year across the three
to creating best practices and interdisciplinary
and Faculty Development and also recently
broader cultural trends on the structure and
campuses of the University of Washington.
knowledge sharing in the M&A community. The
received UW Law’s Faculty Scholarship Award
substance of civil litigation. Her most recent
Pacific Rim M&A Institute, based in Seattle, is a
for Excellence in Law Review Articles. Professor
article, “Taking Images Seriously,” which critiques
collaborative effort of the UW School of Law, the
Krug’s scholarly focus is primarily in securities
the emergent phenomenon of multimedia written
UW Foster School of Business and the firm Davis
regulation, particularly relating to the regulation
legal argument, will be published in the Columbia
Wright Tremaine.
of investment advisers, public and private
Law Review this November.
Circuit Court of Appeals, followed by a clerkship with the Honorable Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
A former high school teacher with an Ed.M. from
of the United States Supreme Court. Prior to
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Professor
joining the UW Law faculty, she practiced at the
Prior to joining UW Law in 2010, she was a
Porter has also been widely recognized for her
law firm of Jenner & Block in Washington, D.C.,
Review titled “Downstream Securities Regulation,”
practitioner-in-residence and adjunct professor
teaching. Professor Porter’s classes are marked by
where she also served as a visiting assistant
is noted as “the first scholarly work to articulate
at the University of California Hastings College
rigor, enthusiasm and innovation. For example,
professor at Catholic University of America’s
how securities regulation encompasses two
of the Law and lecturer at the University of
last spring she created a new complex litigation
Columbus School of Law.
distinct spheres of regulation, each of which
California Berkeley School of Law, where she was
course in which students are assessed on a series
is based on its own core principles — and,
also a research fellow at the Berkeley Center for
of simulated legal filings rather than an exam or
importantly, each of which necessitates its own
Law, Business and the Economy. Her extensive
traditional paper. In this way, Professor Porter
regulatory approaches.” Professor Krug’s recent
private sector experience as an equity partner
seeks to combine deep doctrinal instruction with
scholarship has also appeared or will appear in the
with Howard Rice (now Arnold & Porter) in
practical, hit-the-ground-running legal skills. In
Columbia Law Review, the Southern California Law
San Francisco, where her securities practice
recognition of her dedication to teaching, she has
Review and the Iowa Law Review.
revolved around advising investment advisory
received UW Law’s Philip A. Trautman Professor
firms and representing institutional investors in
of the Year Award three times, including most
connection with their investments in private funds,
recently in 2014. In addition, last June she was
In addition to her extensive scholarly work, Professor Krug also teaches business and securities law courses, including courses on
established her as a leading expert in the field.
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such as broker-dealers and banks.
the Honorable Sidney R. Thomas of the Ninth
forthcoming article for the Boston University Law
Krug’s other scholarly interests and pursuits. Her
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investment funds and other financial institutions,
University in 2000, Professor Porter clerked for
uw law
This work comes as an addition to Professor
After earning an M.A. and J.D. from Columbia
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