Katharina Pistor

TheoristModernb. 1963· German

Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School and author of The Code of Capital, which shows that wealth and money are not natural facts but products of legal code that private lawyers write to serve their clients. Her scholarship reframes money itself as a legal construct that public institutions can and should redesign to serve people rather than finance. Across books, Project Syndicate essays, and her forthcoming The Law of Capitalism and How to Transform It, she argues that reclaiming money from unaccountable private issuers is a matter of rewriting law, not deferring to markets.