Professor Katharina Pistor on Law, Capitalism, Inequity, and Transformation
When: 28 October 2026, 5.30 to 7.30pm
Where: Deakin Downtown
Deakin Law School’s Centre for Law as Protection invites you to a special event with Katharina Pistor, a leading scholar and writer on corporate governance, money and finance, property rights, and comparative law and legal institutions.
Overview:
Katharina Pistor is the Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School and the author or co–author of nine books. The Law of Capitalism and How to Transform It, offers a study of the legal underpinnings of capitalism, reasons why the system must be transformed, and actions we can take. Her previous book, The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality, examines how assets such as land, private debt, business organizations, or knowledge are transformed into capital through contract law, property rights, collateral law, and trust, corporate, and bankruptcy law. The Code of Capital was named one of the best books of 2019 by the Financial Times and Business Insider. Pistor is a prominent commentator on cryptocurrency and has testified before Congress on the lack of regulatory oversight of proposed international cryptocurrencies. As the director of the Center on Global Legal Transformation, Pistor examines ways in which law shapes global relations and how they, in turn, transform the law.
Agenda
5.15pm Registration
5.30pm Welcome
5.45pm Discussions followed by Q&A
7.00pm Networking and canapes
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