Anita K. Krug
Visiting Professor
Anita K. Krug is a professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, where she served as dean from August 1, 2019, until May 31, 2025. Before coming to Chicago-Kent, she was interim vice chancellor for academic affairs for the University of Washington’s Bothell campus. She joined the University of Washington School of Law in 2010 as an assistant professor and earned tenure in 2014, served as the associate dean for research and faculty development from 2014 to 2016, and became a full professor in 2016. She served as interim dean of UW Law from 2017 to 2018.
Krug’s scholarship addresses such topics as the fiduciary duties of investment advisers and broker-dealers, commodity futures regulation, and corporate structure and governance. She has published articles in top journals, and her work has twice been selected for reprinting in the Corporate Practice Commentator and the Securities Law Journal.
Prior to transitioning into academia, Krug was a law firm partner with a securities law practice centering on the financial services industry. She earned her PhD and master’s degrees in political science from Harvard University and her JD degree from Harvard Law School, where she was an articles editor of the Harvard Law Review. After law school, she clerked for the Honorable Norman H. Stahl of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She graduated summa cum laude from Kansas State University with a BA degree in political science and economics and, immediately after earning her bachelor’s degree, spent a year in Germany as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Cologne.
Education
BA, Kansas State University
MA, Harvard University
JD, Harvard Law School
PhD, Harvard University
Courses Taught
Business Organizations
Securities Regulation
Publications/Research Listings
Professor Anita K. Krug's SSRN webpage
Articles
Unprincipled Investor Bifurcations, 75 American University Law Review (forthcoming 2025).
Beneficial Conflicts of Interest, 45 Cardozo Law Review 175 (2023).
Constraining Corporate Law Principles in Affiliate World, 72 Emory Law Journal 855 (2023).
Temporary Securities Regulation, 79 Washington & Lee Law Review 185 (2022).
Investors’ Paradox, 43 Journal of Corporation Law 245 (2018).
The Other Securities Regulator: A Case Study in Regulatory Damage, 92 Tulane Law Review 339 (2017).
Uncertain Futures in Evolving Financial Markets, 93 Washington University Law Review 1209 (2016).
Investing and Pretending, 100 Iowa Law Review 1559 (2015).
Downstream Securities Regulation, 94 Boston University Law Review 1589 (2014), reprinted in 47 Securities Law Review § 2.3 (2015) (Donald C. Langevoort ed.) and 57 Corporate Practice Commentator 183 (2015) (Robert B. Thompson ed.).
Escaping Entity-Centrism in Financial Services Regulation, 113 Columbia Law Review 2039 (2013).
Investment Company as Instrument: The Limitations of the Corporate Governance Regulatory Paradigm, 86 Southern California Law Review 263 (2013).
The Modern Corporation Magnified: Managerial Accountability in Financial Services Holding Companies, 36 Seattle University Law Review 821 (2013) (invited symposium).
Rethinking U.S. Investment Adviser Regulation, 87 St. John’s Law Review 451 (2014) (invited symposium).
Institutionalization, Investment Adviser Regulation, and the Hedge Fund Problem, 63 Hastings Law Journal 1 (2011).
Book Chapters
The Overlooked Effects of Passive Management, in Cambridge Handbook on Investor Protection (Arthur B. Laby ed., Cambridge University Press 2022).
Toward Better Mutual Fund Governance, in Research Handbook on the Regulation of Mutual Funds (William A. Birdthistle & John Morley eds., Edward Elgar 2018).
Multilateral Convergence of Investment Company Regulation, in Economic Law After the Crisis: A Tale of Fragmented Disciplines (C.L. Lim & Bryan Mercurio eds., Cambridge University Press 2015).
Discerning Public Law Concepts in Corporate Law Discourse, in Private Law: Key Encounters With Public Law (Kit Barker & Darryn Jensen eds. Cambridge University Press 2013).