Raúl Carrillo joined Boston College Law School as an Assistant Professor of Law in 2025. He writes about how law, technology, and power evolve within financial systems. Subjects include governance of payments data; regulation of networks, platforms, and utilities in digital banking; surveillance, discipline, and punishment in the cryptocurrency sector; development of “money” as intellectual property in video games and virtual reality; and control over financial communications from oral tradition to satellites in outer space. He has published or has forthcoming scholarship in the Columbia Law Review and Yale Journal of 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 that develops proposals to build a more just, equal, and sustainable future. Carrillo is a member of the Organizing Committee of the Association of Law and Political Economy, a new membership organization promoting these goals.
Before turning toward academia, Carrillo 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. 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.
