Katharina Pistor

Katharina Pistor (born 23 May 1963 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany) is a legal scholar from Germany who is known for her work on legal transplants, the legal institutions that form financial systems, and the legal foundations of capitalism. She is the Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School, where she teaches corporate law, law and development, and law and finance. She co-directs Columbia University’s Center for Political Economy.