Raul Carrillo

Raúl Carrillo is an Academic Fellow, Lecturer in Law, and the 2024-2025 Kellis E. Parker Teaching Fellow. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project. In Fall 2025, Raúl will join the Boston College Law School faculty as an Assistant Professor on the tenure track.

Raul's scholarship focuses on financial regulation and technology. He writes about new forms of money, banking, and finance. Research topics include the regulation of partnerships between banks and technology companies, the design of government digital currency systems, innovative 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, the Advisory Board of the Progressive Talent Pipeline, the Advisory Council of The Action Lab, and the Board of Directors of the National Jobs For All Network.