Bruce Evan-Wong Kraus

​​Harvard College 

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        Comparative Literature/Economics
                  Senior Thesis: The Nationalization of the Guyana Bauxite Company
                             Advisor: Albert O. Hirschman
                   Boylston Elocution Prize Competition: The Waste Land

Yale Law School
 

 Editor:  Yale Law Journal

  MC:       Yale Law Revue
  Y.L.J. Note:      Voidable Preferences and the Value of the Insolvent Firm
  Y.LJ. (Joke Issue) Book Review:  Word Order and Human Dignity
  Winner:  Thurman Arnold Moot Court Competition

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit

Cases:   Filartiga v. Peña-Irala (Opinion)                       

Walker v. Mareno (Bench Memo)

Debevoise, Plimpton, Lyons & Gates
 

           M&A:   Health Care, Life Insurance, Manufacturing, Funeral Homes

           Corporate, Project and Municipal Finance

Willkie Farr & Gallagher, LLP
 

          M&A/Joint Ventures/Corporate Finance:  

                    Defense Industry

• Information Systems

• Avionics

• Electronic Countermeasures

• Hit-to-kill anti-missile missiles

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Telecommunications

• Undersea cable

• Long-distance and last-mile fiber optic cable

• CLECs

• Cellular and iDEN Direct Connect

• LMDS

• Low Earth Orbit satellite constellation

• Geosynchronous weather satellites)

• Russian stationary plasma thruster technology
   

Home Appliances; Garden Equipment

• Power Tools

• Vacuum cleaners

• Snow Blowers

• Lawn Mowers

      Bankruptcy Reorganizations: Telecom; Retail

      Practising Law Institute Seminars: Telecom Deals

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Politics: 

Kirsten Gillibrand: N.Y 20th Congressional District           

N.Y.S. Election Law: Willkie v. Del. Cty Bd. of Elections         

Barak Obama: College Student Dual-Resident Voting Project

United States Securities & Exchange Commission
 

Division of Risk & Economic Analysis, Founding Chief Counsel     

 

Legal Scholarship:
 

Yale Law Journal:    Economists in the Room at the SEC

Yale J. Regulation: Rational Boundaries of SEC Cost-Benefit Analysis (co-author)​

Solo Practice:         

 

SEC Enforcement Defense                     

Rural Pharmacy Roll-up           

Historic Preservation: Prepackaged Involuntary LLC Chapter 7

Not-for-profit corporate governance, M&A          

Trusts & Estates, Special Needs Trusts

Family Court Orders of Protection, Forensic Psychiatry, Disability Rights

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Charitable Board Service:
 

International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation
Camphill Village (Copake); Camphill Ghent; CVC Foundation

Honorable Mentions:

             New York Times, November 13, 1955 (book review)
             Harvard University Gazette, April 13, 1973
             International Law Stories, Harold Honju Koh, Foundation Press 2007
             New York Times, October 21, 2007
             Wall Street Journal, September 23, 2011 
              New York Times, September 20, 2012
             Judgment and Mercy, Martin J. Segal, Cornell University Press 2023 
             New Hew Haven Independent, 2025: July10 & 23, Aug. 20, Sept. 17, Dec. 17.
                                                                  2026:  TBD

             
Picture Books:

           Encyclopedia Galactica (author, Windmill Books/E.P. Dutton 1979)
           The Detective of London (co-author, Windmill Books/E.P. Dutton 1977)
           Ladybug, Ladybug (protagonist, Harper & Brothers 1957)
           All the Mice Came  the Mice Came (cameo appearance, Harper & Brothers 1955)
           Snooping Turtles (protagonist, unpublished, undated ms.)