2025 Emroch Lecture: The Law of Capitalism and How to Transform It with Katharina Pistor
University of Richmond, VA 23173
Capitalism has been conventionally described as an economic system; it is actually a deeply entrenched legal regime. Law provides the material for coding simple objects, promises and ideas as capital assets. It also provides the means for avoiding legal constraints that societies have frequently imposed on capitalism.
Join Professor Katharina Pistor, a leading scholar and writer on corporate governance, money and finance, property rights, and comparative law and legal institutions, for a discussion on the law of capitalism and how to transform it.
Prof. Katharina Pistor is the Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law and Director of the Center on Global Legal Transformation.
Free to attend. Boxed lunches will be served.
About the Emanuel Emroch Lecture Series: This lecture series brings topical speakers to Richmond Law thanks to the Emanuel Emroch Endowment. The endowment was created in honor of Emanuel Emroch, L’31. Today, it is supported by Emanuel Emroch’s son and daughter-in-law, Walter and Karen Emroch.