Our guest for today is Katharina Pistor, the Edwin B Parker Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School, where she also heads the Center on Global Legal Transformation. Besides these appointments, Katharina is a research associate with the Centre for Economic Policy Research, has served as principal investigator of the Global Finance and Law Initiative (2011–2013), and as a board member (2011–2014) and fellow (2019) of the European Corporate Governance Institute. Together with Martin Hellwig she was awarded the 2012 Max Planck Research Award on International Financial Regulation, and in 2015 she was elected a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.
A renowned expert in comparative law, company law, bankruptcy, law and finance, as well as the regulation of cryptocurrencies, she is the author of several groundbreaking articles such as ‘A Legal Theory of Finance’ in the Journal of Comparative Economics (2013), and ‘From Territorial to Monetary Sovereignty’ in Theoretical Inquiries in Law (2017). Our discussion for this episode, however, is about her 2019 bestseller The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality (Princeton UP).
Joining me on the interview is André Nuñes Chaïb, an assistant professor in the Faculty of Law, Maastricht University. The podcast was edited by Renaud Callaert.
Our guest for today is Katharina Pistor, the Edwin B Parker Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School, where she also heads the Center on Global Legal Transformation. Besides these appointments, Katharina is a research associate with the Centre for Economic Policy Research, has served as principal investigator of the Global Finance and Law Initiative (2011–2013), and as a board member (2011–2014) and fellow (2019) of the European Corporate Governance Institute. Together with Martin Hellwig she was awarded the 2012 Max Planck Research Award on International Financial Regulation, and in 2015 she was elected a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.
A renowned expert in comparative law, company law, bankruptcy, law and finance, as well as the regulation of cryptocurrencies, she is the author of several groundbreaking articles such as ‘A Legal Theory of Finance’ in the Journal of Comparative Economics (2013), and ‘From Territorial to Monetary Sovereignty’ in Theoretical Inquiries in Law (2017). Our discussion for this episode, however, is about her 2019 bestseller The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality (Princeton UP).
Joining me on the interview is André Nuñes Chaïb, an assistant professor in the Faculty of Law, Maastricht University. The podcast was edited by Renaud Callaert.