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Modern legal practice as the engine of inequality: An essay on Katharina Pistor’s The Code of Capital

Sissoko, Carolyn

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Carolyn Sissoko



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This review essay of Katharina Pistor's Code of Capital summarizes her argument: legal practice is all about the design of capital assets so that their owners' interests are maximized, and so that courts will not stop these owners from taking unfair advantage. Pistor explains how this legal regime naturally generates inequality. The summary is followed by a critique of Pistor's claim that she describes the fundamental nature of the Anglo-American legal system and a discussion of the many ways in which both courts and legislatures in the past used to constrain the growth of both unfairness and inequality.

Journal Article Type Book Review
Acceptance Date Apr 17, 2020
Online Publication Date Jan 4, 2021
Publication Date Jan 4, 2021
Deposit Date Jul 3, 2020
Publicly Available Date Jan 5, 2023
Journal Development and Change
Print ISSN 0012-155X
Electronic ISSN 1467-7660
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 52
Issue 1
Pages 192-201
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12629
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/5876231
Publisher URL https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14677660

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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: [Sissoko, C. (2021). Modern legal practice as the engine of inequality: An essay on Katharina Pistor’s The Code of Capital. Development and Change, 52(1), 192-201, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12629. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.


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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: [Sissoko, C. (2021). Modern legal practice as the engine of inequality: An essay on Katharina Pistor’s The Code of Capital. Development and Change, 52(1), 192-201, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12629. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.






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