Jack G. Clarke Chair in Far East Legal Studies
and Professor of Anthropology
Cornell Law School
120 Myron Taylor Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4901
Phone: (607) 255-2330
Fax: (607) 255-7193
Email: ar254@cornell.edu
Annelise Riles is the Jack G. Clarke Professor of Law in Far East Legal Studies and Professor of Anthropology at Cornell, and she serves as Director of the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture. Her work focuses on the transnational dimensions of legal theories, doctrines and institutions. She has conducted legal and anthropological research in China, Japan, and the Pacific and she has written extensively on cultural problems in the law. A forthcoming book, Collateral Knowledge, is an account of modern transnational legal thought based on anthropological fieldwork among financial regulators in Tokyo and New York. She recently co-edited a special issue of the journal, Law and Contemporary Problems, Transdisciplinary Conflict of Laws, which rethinks the field of Conflict of Laws from an interdisciplinary perspective. Her first book, The Network Inside Out, won the American Society of International Law's Certificate of Merit for 2000-2002. Her second book, Rethinking the Masters of Comparative Law, is a cultural history of Comparative Law presented through its canonical figures. Her third book, Documents: Artifacts of Modern Knowledge, brings together lawyers, anthropologists, sociologists and historians of science. Professor Riles speaks Chinese, Japanese, French, and Fijian. She was recently featured in the Cornell Chronicle.
