Professor of Law
Columbia University

Email: kpisto@law.columbia.edu
Website: http://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty

Biography

Katharina Pistor is professor of law at Columbia Law School. Before joining the faculty of Columbia Law School in 2001, she taught at the Kennedy School of Government, and worked at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Private Law in Hamburg (Germany). Her main research interests are comparative law, comparative corporate governance, and the development of legal institutions with special emphasis on the evolution of law in transitional and emerging economies.


Selected Publications

Recent publications include George Bermann and Katharina Pistor (eds), "Law and Governance in an Enlarged European Union", Oxford: Hart Publishing; Katharina Pistor and Chenggang Xu, Incomplete Law , NYU Journal of International Law and Politics 931 (2003); Dan Berkowitz, Katharina Pistor, Jean-Francois Richard, Econmic Development, Legality, and the Transplant Effect , 47 European Economic Review 165 (2003); Katharina Pistor, Yoram Keinan et al., The Evolution of Corporate Law , 23 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law 791 (2002).