Katharina Pistor
Katharina Pistor is the Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School and Director of the Center on Global Legal Transformation. She has also held teaching positions at Harvard Law School, the Harvard Kennedy School, and the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Law in Hamburg. Her research focuses on the legal foundations of capitalism, global finance, corporate governance, and comparative law and she was a member of the board of directors (2011-2014) and a fellow (2019) of the European Corporate Governance Institute.
She is widely known for her influential book The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality (2019), which examines how legal institutions shape the creation and distribution of wealth. More recently, she also wrote The Law of Capitalism and How to Transform It.