Pistor
Katharina Pistor
Comparative-law and law-and-finance scholar
legal theory of financecomparative corporate governancefinancial systems
Official Source Note
Columbia Law School lists Pistor as the Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law and describes her as a scholar of corporate governance, money and finance, property rights, comparative law, and legal institutions.
Pistor is included because her legal-institutional account of capital and finance broadens law and economics beyond incentives alone, emphasizing how legal coding, hierarchy, and institutional design shape markets.
Source: Columbia Law School
Relevance to the Archive
Pistor extends law and economics toward the legal construction of capital, financial hierarchy, and comparative institutional analysis.
Representative Contributions
- How Law Affects Lending (2009)
- A Legal Theory of Finance (2013)
- The Code of Capital (2019)