Katharina Pistor is the Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where she teaches Corporations, Lawyering across Multiple Legal Orders, Globalization in Comparative Perspective, and Law and Development. She serves as a member of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University and is Director of the Center on Global Legal Transformation at Columbia Law School. Her research focuses on comparative law and institutional development with special emphasis on corporate governance and financial market development in developing countries and emerging markets.
Global Finance
Into the Void: Governing Finance in Central and Eastern Europe, Reflections on Transition: Twenty Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall (2012)
Twenty years after the fall of the iron curtain—which for decades had separated East from...
The Governance of China's Finance, Capitalizing China (2012)
The governance of finance comprises a set of mechanisms aimed at directing the collective behavior...
Maximizing Autonomy in the Shadow of Great Powers: The Political Economy of Sovereign Wealth Funds (with Hatton Kyel), Columbia Journal of Transnational Law (2011)
Sovereign Wealth Funds have received a great deal of attention since they appeared as critical...
Governing Interdependent Financial Systems: Lessons from the Vienna Initiative, Journal of Globalization and Development (2011)
Financial markets have become globally interdependent, yet their governance has remained national at the core....
Host's Dilemma: Rethinking EU Banking Regulation in Light of the Global Crisis, Festschrift für Hopt (2010)
One of the main objectives of transnational banking regulation over the past two decades has...
Comparative Corporate Governance
Law and Capitalism: What Corporate Crises Reveal about Legal Systems and Economic Development Around the World (with Curtis Milhaupt) (2008)
Retheorizing Law & Finance
Toward a Legal Theory of Finance, Retheorizing Law & Finance (2012)
This paper develops the building blocks for a legal theory of finance. LTF holds that...
Towards a New Transition Economics (2012)
In these brief comments I take issue with the thesis expressed in Konstantin Sonin’s conference...
On the Theoretical Foundations for Regulating Financial Markets (2012)
How we think about financial markets determines how we regulate them. Since the 1970s modern...
Real vs. Imagined Financial Markets The Regulatory Challenge (2012)
We have grown accustomed to regulating financial markets based on imagined, not real markets. Real...
Banking and Finance
On the Theoretical Foundations for Regulating Financial Markets, ExpressO (2012)
How we think about financial markets determines how we regulate them. Since the 1970s modern...