# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-k-black
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:24:38.102Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-k-black"
name: "William K. Black"
slug: "william-k-black"
description: "William Kurt Black is an American lawyer, academic, author, and a former bank regulator. Black's expertise is in white-collar crime, public finance, regulation, and other topics in law and economics. He developed the concept of \"control fraud\", in which a business or national executive uses the entity he or she controls as a \"weapon\" to commit fraud."
tagline: "Professor of law and economics at UMKC"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_K._Black.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1951-09-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.84
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.811988
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ويليام بلاك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ويليام بلاك (محامى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_K._Black"
    title: "William K. Black"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_K._Black"
    title: "William K. Black"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kurt_Black"
    title: "William Kurt Black"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3568755"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump