Insights Fall 2021

Regulatory Law

Taming Cryptocurrency’s Secondary Market

 Professor Johnson joined Emory as Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law in 2021; she was previously McGlinchey Stafford Professor of Law at Tulane University Law School. She is an internationally recognized expert on financial markets regulation and corporate governance, compliance, and risk management. Her scholarship explores regulation and private ordering of capital and credit markets. She examines the implications of emerging technologies that enable the creation of digital assets and intermediaries, and also, artificial intelligence technologies that target financial transactions, transfers, and assessments. Her research has been published by numerous prominent law journals and she has presented at the nation’s leading law schools. Johnson testified before the US House Financial Services Committee Task Force on Artificial Intelligence in 2019. Her forthcoming book on artificial intelligence and the law (with Carla Reyes) is scheduled to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute and an American Bar Association Fellow. She was assistant general counsel and vice president at JP Morgan and an associate at Simpson, Thacher, and Bartlett LLP. She clerked for the Hon. Joseph A. Greenaway Jr., then of the US District Court for the District of New Jersey.

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