Professor
Law School and Department of Anthropology
A specialist in comparative and international law and East Asia-Pacific region legal studies, Prof. Riles holds a dual appointment with Cornell University's Department of Anthropology, and serves as Director of the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture. Prof. Riles is a native French speaker, is fluent in Chinese, and is proficient in Japanese, Spanish, and Fijian. She has taught at Yale Law School and University of the South Pacific, and was a tenured professor on the law faculty at Northwestern University. She was a consultant to the Fiji Constitutional Review Commission, and served as Research Fellow at the American Bar Association.
EXPERTISE
Comparative and international law, East Asia-Pacific region legal studies, anthropology
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
RELATED LINKS
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
The Network Inside Out, University of Michigan Press (2000)
Documents: Artifacts of Modern Knowledge, ed., (published as a special issue of Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 2004)
Rethinking the Masters of Comparative Law, ed., Oxford: Hart Publishing (2001)