Kathryn Judge is the Harvey J. Goldschmid Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. Her research focuses on banking, financial crises, regulatory architecture and intermediation design beyond finance. Her academic work has received accolades from academic peers and industry.
Judge currently serves as Chair of the Research Committee of the European Corporate Governance Institute, in addition to serving on its Working Paper Series Editorial Board. She has served as Vice Dean for Intellectual Life at Columbia Law School, as an editor of the Journal of Financial Regulation, as a member of the Financial Stability Task Force co-sponsored by the Brookings Institution and Chicago Booth School of Business and as a member of the Financial Research Advisory Committee to the Office of Financial Regulation. While serving on FRAC, she co-chaired the working groups on financial innovation and the LIBOR transition.
Judge’s book, Direct: The Rise of the Middleman Economy and the Power of Going to the Source (HarperBusiness), was on the longlist for the Financial Times Business book of the Year, received the Gold Medal for Business Theory from Axiom Business Book Awards and was included among the “Top 16 Finance Books of 2022” and “Top 22 Business Books of 2022” by Next Big Idea Club. More information about Direct, Judge's popular writing, and other press is available on her website, kathrynjudge.com.
Prior to joining Columbia Law School, Judge clerked for Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Stephen Breyer of the Supreme Court. She also worked as a corporate associate with Latham & Watkins LLP.
Education
- J.D., Stanford Law School (2004)
- B.A., Wesleyan University (1999)