Katharina Pistor
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Katharina Pistor (born May 23, 1963 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German lawyer .
Life
In 1988 Pistor passed the first state examination in law at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and in 1992 the second state examination in Hamburg. She teaches as Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School and Director of the Law School's Center for Global Legal Transformation.
Her research and teaching encompasses corporate law, corporate governance, money and finance, property rights as well as comparative law and legal institutions.
Fonts (selection)
- Property reform through institutional investors. A legal economic analysis of mass privatization in Russia and the Czech Republic . Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-428-09782-3 .
- with Curtis J. Milhaupt : Law and capitalism. What corporate crises reveal about legal systems and economic development around the world . Chicago 2010, ISBN 0-226-52528-7 .
- as editor with Olivier De Schutter : Governing access to essential resources . New York 2016, ISBN 978-0-231-17278-3 .
- The code of capital. How the law creates wealth and inequality . Princeton 2019, ISBN 978-0-691-17897-4 .
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| SURNAME | Pistor, Catherine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg in Breisgau |