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K.A.D. Camara

Associate

3460 One Houston Center
1221 McKinney Street
Houston, Texas 77010-2009
Phone: 713 655-1101
Fax: 713 655-0062
email: kcamara@azalaw.com*





K.A.D. Camara is an associate at Ahmad Zavitsanos & Anaipakos. He has particular expertise in corporate law, private international law, and federal jurisdiction.

Mr. Camara was born in Manila and grew up in Cleveland and Honolulu. He attended the Punahou School. In 1998, Mr. Camara skipped high school and enrolled directly in college, which he completed in 2 years at the age of 16. In 2000, he earned his B.S. summa cum laude in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics. In 2004, he earned his J.D. magna cum laude and, at 19, became the youngest graduate in the history of Harvard Law School.

In 2004-2005, Mr. Camara served as a law clerk to Judge Harris Hartz on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He then spent a year as a Ph.D. student in the Stanford Economics Department. In 2006, he received a national fellowship from the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy and joined the law faculty at Northwestern.

Mr. Camara has published articles and given talks on issues ranging from shareholder voting to the regulation of private prisons to health insurance. His first article, Awareness Of, Use And Perception Of Efficacy Of Alternative Therapies By Patients With Inflammatory Arthropathies, was based on a seventh-grade science project and was published when he was 12. He received the Jose Rizal Certificate of Achievement in 2000 and a Presidential Commendation in 2005 from the Republic of the Philippines.

Mr. Camara was formerly a competitive ballroom dancer and a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Ballroom Dance Team. He occasionally serves as an American Style judge at collegiate competitions. For two years, Mr. Camara coached a high school debate team, and he continues to be involved with the Voices Foundation for the Promotion of High School Debate. He enjoys playing racquetball.

Mr. Camara is a member of the Massachusetts bar and the bars of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and the United States District Courts for the Northern, Western, and Southern Districts of Texas. He is not yet admitted to the Texas bar.

PUBLICATIONS

  • The Tragedy of the Human Commons, 29 Cardozo Law Review 479 (2007) (joint with Ronen Avraham)
  • Quasipublic Executives, 115 Yale Law Journal 2255 (2006) (joint with civil-rights lawyer Paul Gowder)
  • Classifying Institutional Investors, 30 Journal of Corporation Law 219 (2005)
  • Costs of Sovereignty, 107 West Virginia Law Review 385 (2005)
  • Shareholder Voting and the Bundling Problem in Corporate Law, 2004 Wisconsin Law Review 1425 (2005) (received the Brudney Prize from Harvard University in 2004)


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***Mr. Camara is not certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

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