Biography
Veronica Aoki Santarosa is a Professor of Law at UC Berkeley. Her areas of interest include law and economics, financial and legal history, institutional economics, and law and development. Professor Santarosa’s current projects combine original archival research and empirical analysis to study how the law creates and supports markets, with a focus on the role of legal innovations in the rise of financial capitalism and the spread of global trade. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, such as The Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Economic History, and The Economic History Review.
