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Katharina Pistor is a German legal scholar whose work focuses on comparative law, the legal foundations of capitalism, and the relationship between law and global financial systems. She is the Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School, where she directs the Center on Global Legal Transformation. Pistor is known for her research on how legal institutions shape economic outcomes, particularly in the areas of property rights, financial regulation, and institutional change.
Early life and education
Pistor was born in Freiburg, Germany. She studied law at the University of Freiburg and earned an LL.M. from the University of London. She completed her legal clerkship in Hamburg and received an M.P.A. from the Harvard Kennedy School. She earned her Dr. jur. (J.S.D.) summa cum laude from the University of Munich Faculty of Law in 1998.
Academic career
Pistor began her academic career with research and teaching appointments at the Harvard Institute for International Development, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, and Harvard Law School, where she lectured on law.[1]
She joined the faculty of Columbia Law School in 2001 as an associate professor and became a full professor in 2005. She held the Michael I. Sovern Professorship of Law from 2008 to 2018 before being appointed Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law in 2018. Her previous roles at Columbia include Walter E. Meyer Research Professor in Law and Social Problems (2014–2015).[2]
Research
Pistor’s research explores how legal systems construct, enable, and constrain economic behavior, with particular attention to global finance, institutional change, and the codification of capital. Her scholarship has contributed to debates on the relationship between law and economic development, the theory of incomplete law, and the legal architecture of financial markets.
Her book The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality (2019) examines how legal institutions allocate and protect capital in modern economies and has been translated into several languages. Her article “A Legal Theory of Finance” received the Allen & Overy Best Paper Prize from the European Corporate Governance Institute.[3]
Awards and honors
Selected works
References
- ^ “About Katharina Pistor”. Erasmus University Rotterdam.
- ^ “Katharina Pistor”. Columbia University.
- ^ “Allen & Overy, European Corporate Governance Institute Honor Professor Katharina Pistor for Paper”. Columbia Law School.
- ^ “Martin Hellwig and Katharina Pistor receive Max Planck Research Award”. Max Planck Society.
- ^ “Katharina Pistor”. Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
- ^ “Katharina Pistor to receive honorary doctorate on behalf of Erasmus School of Law”. Erasmus University Rotterdam.
- ^ “Academy of Europe: Pistor Katharina”. Academy of Europe.
- ^ “Prof. Katharina Pistor”. University of Antwerp.
- ^ “Pistor, Katharina”. Club of Rome.
- ^ Deller, Rose (26 September 2019). “Book Review: The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality by Katharina Pistor – LSE Review of Books”. LSE Review of Books.
- ^ Tooze, Adam (13 February 2020). “Katharina Pistor’s ‘The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality’“. The New York Review of Books.
- ^ “A Review of Katharina Pistor’s ‘The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality’“. Oxford Law Blogs. 15 January 2020.
- ^ Neacsu, Dana (April 2014). “Legal Origin Theory. Edited by Simon Deakin and Katharina Pistor. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012. Pp. v, 622. ISBN: 978-0-85793-909-8”. International Journal of Legal Information. 42 (1): 160–161. doi:10.1017/S0731126500028390. ISSN 0731-1265.
- ^ “Law and Capitalism. What Corporate Crises Reveal about Legal Systems and Economic Development around the World”. Society and Business Review. 4 (2): 159–161. 19 June 2009. doi:10.1108/17465680910965977.
- ^ Smith, Gordon B. (1998). “Review of The Rule of Law and Economic Reform in Russia”. Europe-Asia Studies. 50 (6): 1083–1084. ISSN 0966-8136.
