Raul Carrillo

Raúl Carrillo is an Academic Fellow and Lecturer in Law. He is also Columbia Law School's 2024-2025 Kellis E. Parker Teaching Fellow.

Raul's scholarship focuses on financial regulation and technology. He writes about what we might call new forms of money, banking, and finance. Research topics include the design of digital currency systems, regulation of partnerships between banks and technology companies, government efforts to combat fraud and money laundering in the cryptocurrency sector, and the evolution of money in video games and virtual reality.

Before his fellowship, Raúl was an Associate Research Scholar at Yale Law School and a Resident Fellow at the Yale Information Society Project. He also worked as the Deputy Director of the Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project, an international network of scholars, practitioners, and students developing proposals to build a more just, equal, and sustainable future.

Before turning toward academia, Raúl was Policy Counsel at the Demand Progress Education Fund and a Fellow at the Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund. Previously, he worked as a Staff Attorney at New Economy Project, providing free legal services to low-income New Yorkers. He has also served as Special Counsel to the Enforcement Director at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He regularly advises public interest groups and policymakers and testifies before Congress.

Raúl serves on the Board of Directors of the Demand Progress Education Fund, Advisory Board of the Progressive Talent Pipeline, Advisory Council of The Action Lab, and Board of Directors of the National Jobs For All Network.