Kelli Alces Williams
Kelli Alces Williams
Florida State University
College of Law
Advocacy Center, Dean’s Suite A306A
Main Classroom Building, 314
Phone: 850.644.5079
kalces@law.fsu.edu
J. D., magna cum laude, University of Illinois College of Law, Champaign, 2005
B.A., Government, College of William and Mary, 2001
Professor Kelli Alces Williams has been a member of the Florida State University College of Law faculty since 2007. Her scholarship has addressed corporate governance, fiduciary duties, trust, and consumer expectations in sophisticated markets. She teaches courses on Contracts, Corporations, Securities Regulation, Bankruptcy, Property, and Trusts and Estates.
Professor Williams has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School, the George Mason University School of Law, the University of Iowa College of Law, and the University of Richmond School of Law. Her work has appeared in the Columbia Law Review, the Boston College Law Review, the University of Illinois Law Review, the Journal of Corporation Law, and the Wake Forest Law Review, among other journals.
Professor Williams received her J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Illinois College of Law and her B.A. from The College of William & Mary.
Select Recent and Forthcoming Publications
The Harm in the Fiduciary Myth, 49 B.Y.U. L. Rev. 1465 (2024)
Market Testing Boilerplate, 74 Syracuse L. Rev. 229 (2024)
Feminist Judgments: Corporate Law Rewritten (co-editor with A. Choike & U. Rodrigues) (Cambridge University Press 2022)
Introduction (with A. Choike & U. Rodrigues), in Feminist Judgments: Corporate Law Rewritten (co-editor with A. Choike & U. Rodrigues) (Cambridge University Press) (2021)
Self-Interested Fiduciaries and Invulnerable Beneficiaries: When Fiduciary Duties Don’t Fit, in Fiduciary Duties in Business (Cambridge University Press) (2021)
Leaders Are Not Fiduciaries, 72 Ala. L. Rev. 363 (2020)