Katharina Pistor is Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where she teaches Corporations, Lawyering in Multiple Legal Orders, Globalization in Comparative Perspective, and Law and Capitalism. She also serves as a member of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. Pistor previously taught at the Kennedy School of Government and has held research positions at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg and at the Harvard Institute for International Development in Cambridge, MA. Her research focuses on comparative law and institutional development with special emphasis on corporate governance and financial market development. She has conducted several studies on the legal framework for the evolving corporate governance regime in transition economies, including field research of privatized firms and financial intermediaries in Russia.

Representative Publications:

In Press (with Milhaupt). Law and Capitalism: Lessons from Corporate Governance Scandals and Legal Reforms around the World. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

2005. (with Xu). "Governing Stock Markets in Transition Economies: Lessons from China." American Review of Law and Economics. 7: 184-210

2003 (with Berkowitz, et al.). "Economic Development, Legality, and the Transplant Effect." European Economic Review. 47: 165-195

2000 (with Raiser et al.). "Law and Finance in Transition Economies." The Economics of Transition. 8: 325-368

1999 (with Wellons). The Role of Law and Legal Institutions in Asian Economic Development. Hong Kong, Oxford University Press.

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