Kerry Pechter on the legal coding of the “Bermuda Triangle”
How the ‘Harkin Amendment’ Enabled the ‘Bermuda Triangle’
Writing in the Retirement Income Journal in its February 2026 edition, Kerry Pechter explains how the analysis in “The Code of Capital” and “The Law of Capitalism and How to Transform It”, makes legible the legal coding of highly profitable transactions that have empowered private equity.
Why Europe Needs a New Social Federalism
Joint commentary with Étienne Balibar, Justine Lacroix, Dominique Méda, Thomas Piketty,Guillaume Sacriste, Antoine Vauchez and Jonathan White
“….it is necessary to build a new transnational social alliance, starting from this shared interest in the survival of our democracies and thus bringing together all the forces favourable to such a project—forces that are today fragmented both at the European level and within national frameworks.” Social Europe, January 29, 2026
Book Events: The Law of Capitalism
Upcoming events:
NYU LPE Student Group. April 6, 2026
NYU Law School. April 9, 2026
Center for Political Economy @ Columbia University: April 13, 2026 (with Aaron Benanav, Jeremy Kessler, and Suresh Naidu)
European University Institute (EUI), Florence (IT), May 13, 2026.
Warwick University, Birmingham (UK), May 14, 2026.
Past Events:
KU Leuven: January 15, 2026
Hamburg University Law School, January 7, 2026
Columbia Law School LPE Chapter: November 19, 2025
Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt: October 24, 2025
Humboldt University: October 21, 2025
Princeton University: September 18. 2025
Amsterdam University, September 29, 2025
Yale University Law School, September 11, 2025
Tel Aviv Law School (via zoom), May 7, 2025
Richmond Law School, March 27, 2025.
Adorno Lectures Reviews
Review of the three Adorno Lectures I delivered at the Institut für Sozialforschung in Frankfurt 22-24 October
Review it All
A request to review all aspects of Columbia University’s governance structure and not focus on the University’s Senate, the only body with participation of administrators, faculty, and students.
Das Recht des Stärkeren
Die Machtergreifung der Reichsten: Die libertären Rechten unterwerfen den Staatsapparat der autoritären Logik der Privatwirtschaft. Beitrag im Wirtschaftsmagazin Surplus Nr. 2 Die Ära der Kettensäge
Grammar of Calculated Ambiguity
Katharina Pistor participated in this video-are-project by the Swiss media-artist Gabriela Löffel, that dissects the role of professional services, including lawyers, accountants and trust advisors, in expanding the system of offshore finance and tax avoidance.