2024 Rosenbluth lecture with Dr. Katharina Pistor

This year’s speaker for CCPA–BC’s annual Rosenbluth Lecture is Katharina Pistor. Dr. 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.

In this lecture, Dr. Pistor discusses themes from her latest book, The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality, which explores how the public institutions of the legal system—like property law or taxation—are used to create private wealth.

From corporations being granted “personhood” to the invisible structures that allow for the creation and use of tax havens, to rules that grant monopolies on inventions and ideas (intellectual property rights)—Dr. Pistor shares her insights on how the law is used to encode inequality into our social systems and what we can do to correct course.

Watch the lecture recording here:

About the Rosenbluth Memorial Lecture

The annual Gideon Rosenbluth Memorial Lecture is presented by the CCPA–BC and the Vancouver School of Economics at UBC in honour of Gideon Rosenbluth. Gideon was a long-time research associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and a highly respected member of the UBC economics department, as well as the economics community in Canada and around the world. His rigorous approach to scholarship and community involvement was guided by his commitment to social justice. Among his many roles, he was president of the Canadian Association of University Teachers and president of the Canadian Economics Association.

Stay in the loop and be notified about future events and publications from the BC Office:

• Sign up to get our newsletter ccpabc.ca/subscribe
• Follow us on social @ccpa_bc on X, Instagram and Threads
• Find our articles at policynote.ca and long-form reports at policyalternatives.ca

Attend our Gala on November 7! Get your tickets at ccpabc.ca/gala