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The Laws of Capitalism
YSI webinar series on dissecting capitalism
Location:
Online
Type:
Other
Speakers
Katharina Pistor
Professor
YSI Presenters
Description
This session of the webinar series will feature Prof. Katharina Pistor. She is the Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School and director of the Law School's Center on Global Legal Transformation.
Abstract
Why is capitalism, a system that is coded in law so resilient to legal governance? In an attempt to solve this problem, I identify three laws of capitalist law: Individual entitlements; legal arbitrage; and decentralized access to the centralized means of coercion. Understanding how these laws operate individually and how they interact with each other, I argue, is critical for reforming this system to address the weakening of democratic self-governance, but also the challenge of climate change.
Speaker's Bio
Katharina Pistor is the Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School and director of the Law School's Center on Global Legal Transformation. Her work spans comparative law and corporate governance, law and finance, and law and development. Her most recent book is "The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality" (2019), Princeton University Press.
Format
Prof. Katharina Pistor will be speaking for the first 45 minutes. We will then be holding a Q&A Session.
This session is part of the larger project:
Season II Dissecting Capitalism: Its past, present and future
This series aims to explore the tenets of capitalism over the fabric of time and examine its influence on the global economy and social classes.
More information on Season I
Hosted by Working Group(s):
Organizers
Attendees
Sattwick Dey Biswas
Aneesha Chitgupi
Aneesha Chitgupi
Bidhi Adhikari
Sümeyye Elif Biber
Abhishek Prakash
Lluis Aragones Ferri
farhad gohardani
Carla Coburger
Raul Zambrano
Imran Esmail
Roy Cobby
Oscar Garza Vázquez
Mihir Naik
sheena jain
Paula Haufe
Mark Martirosian
Timo Zandstra
Guanchi Zhang
Kosal Nith
Borys Cieslak
Mirit Friedman
Carmen Perez del Pulgar
Cláudia Scott
Marie Storli
Francisco Zanichelli
AgustÃn Wilner
George Tchanturia
Asli Yuruk
Matthias Sweet
Ann Apps
Antonio Grillo Neto
Karina Patricio Ferreira Lima
Filipe Mourão
Jan Schulz
Ayatullahi Seidu
Konrad Borowicz
Nikhil Kaza
narendra kumar
Rok Piletic
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