School of Law

On Monday 16^th December and Tuesday 17^th December we had the pleasure to welcome Prof. Katharina Pistor to discuss her recent book “The Code of Capital: How the Law creates Wealth and Inequality” (Princeton UP, 2019).

 Katharina Pistor is the Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School and director of the Law School’s Center on Global Legal Transformation. Her work spans comparative law and corporate governance, law and finance, and law and development. She is the co-recipient of the Max Planck Research Award (2012), a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science and a Fellow at the European Corporate Governance Institute.

Prof Pistor’s work was firstly presented in a Workshop on Monday 16^th December. Prof Iain MacNeil, Dr Jill Robbie, Dr Antonio Marzal, Dr Anna Chadwick, Dr Marco Goldoni, Prof TT Arvind (University of York), Dr Javier Solana and Dr Giedre Jokubauskaite offered their thoughts about different chapters in a stimulating and thought-provoking discussion on the interaction of law with political economy.

On Tuesday 17^th Prof Pistor held a public lecture at Adam Smith Business School on “Statehood in the digital age”, where she drew attention to emergent forms of digital sovereignty, especially monetary sovereignty, and sketched out implications for political sovereignty.

 This series of events was co-organised by the Corporate & Financial Law and Legal Theory Research Groups alongside the Microeconomics Research Cluster in the Adam Smith Business School.