Raúl Carrillo joined Boston College Law School as an Assistant Professor of Law in 2025. He writes about how law and technology structure money, banking, and finance. Carrillo’s scholarship shows how monetary and financial systems operate as systems of data, information, knowledge, surveillance, media, culture, communications, and material infrastructure — and how law often fails to perceive power exercised through them. The work traces how law constitutes technologies it appears to merely lag behind, including payments apps and devices, cryptocurrency, “money” in video games, satellite money transmission, and financial AI agents. Carrillo has published scholarship in the Columbia Law Review and Yale Journal on Regulation, among other venues.
Before he arrived at BC Law, Carrillo was an Academic Fellow, Lecturer in Law, and the 2024-2025 Kellis E. Parker Teaching Fellow at Columbia Law School. He has also been an Associate Research Scholar at Yale Law School and a Resident Fellow at the Yale Information Society Project. While at Yale, 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. Carrillo is a member of the Board of Directors and the Emerging Scholars Committee Chair of the Association of Law and Political Economy (ALPE), a new membership organization promoting these goals.
Before turning toward academia, Carrillo was Policy Counsel at Demand Progress and a Fellow at Americans for Financial Reform. Previously, he worked as a Staff Attorney at New Economy Project, providing free legal services to low-income New Yorkers. Carrillo has also served as Special Counsel to the Director of Enforcement at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Among other public interest commitments, he sits on the Advisory Board of the Progressive Talent Pipeline. He regularly counsels policymakers and has testified before the U.S. Congress on several occasions.
Carrillo earned a J.D. from Columbia Law School and was a Resident Scholar at Oxford University as part of the Columbia-Oxford Alliance in Law and Finance. He received an A.B. in Social Studies from Harvard College.
Carrillo’s SSRN Profile is available here.
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