Research Interests

International economic law and business regulation, particularly international tax, from a political economy and sociological perspective.

Additional Professional Information

  • Emeritus Professor, Lancaster University.
     
  • Research Associate, International Centre for Tax and Development.
     
  • Visiting Professor, Centre for Law, Regulation and Governance of the Global Economy (GLOBE), University of Warwick.
     
  • Founding Editor, Social & Legal Studies.
     

Publications

Selected Publications

Picciotto, Sol 2024. The Design of a UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation. South Centre: Tax Cooperation Policy Brief 38.

Picciotto, Sol 2024. Lawyers as Constructive Ideologists of Corporate Capitalism: The Legal Framing of Software. Social & Legal Studies, 33:526-55.

Miola, Iagê Zendron, and Sol Picciotto 2022. On the Sociology of Law in Economic Relations. Social & Legal Studies, 31:139-61.

Picciotto, Sol 2021. Technocracy in the Era of Twitter. Between Intergovernmentalism and Supranational Technocratic Politics in Global Tax Governance. Regulation & Governance, 15:634-52.

Picciotto, Sol 2011. Regulating Global Corporate Capitalism. Cambridge University Press.

For more, especially recent papers see SSRN Author Page