Riles, Annelise

research

research and scholarship focus

Ethnography
Bureaucracies and Institutions
Law
Markets
Theories (Law, Economics, Science and Gender)

international geographic focus

France | country
Japan | country
Spain | country

domestic geographic focus

New York State | state

affiliations

faculty appointment in

Anthropology (ANTHR) | Cornell department
Cornell Law School | Cornell college

administrative appointment

Cornell Law School | Cornell college

member of graduate field

Anthropology | graduate field
Asian Studies | graduate field

other Cornell affiliations

East Asia Program | academic program office

teaching

teaches

ANTHR 4910 - Independent Study: Undergrad I (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
ANTHR 4920 - Independent Study: Undergrad II (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
ANTHR 7910 - Independent Study: Grad I (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
ANTHR 7920 - Independent Study: Grad II (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
ANTHR 7930 - Independent Study: Grad III (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
GOVT 3131 - Nature Functions Limits of Law (MWF 02:55:PM-03:50:PM) | fall 2009 class
LAW 4131 - Nature Functions Limits of Law (MWF 02:55:PM-03:50:PM) | fall 2009 class
LAW 7170 - East Asian Law and Culture Seminar (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
LAW 7171 - East Asian Law and Culture Colloquium (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
ANTHR 4910 - Independent Study: Undergrad I (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
ANTHR 4920 - Independent Study: Undergrad II (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
ANTHR 7910 - Independent Study: Grad I (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
ANTHR 7920 - Independent Study: Grad II (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
ANTHR 7930 - Independent Study: Grad III (TBA -) | spring 2009 class

background

educational background

A.B., Princeton University, 1988
MSc., London School of Economics, 1990
J.D., Harvard Law School, 1993
Ph.D., Cambridge University, 1996

professional background

Professor of Law in Cornell University
Professor of Anthropology in Cornell University

featured in

Cornell Law School sends contingent to East Asia | Cornell Chronicle feature

publications

selected publications (listing in progress)

Anthropology, Human Rights, and Legal Knowledge: Culture in the Iron Cage. American Anthropologist vol. 108 No. 1.
Documents: Artifacts of Modern Knowledge. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Knowledge About Law. International Encyclopedia of Law and Society.
Wigmore's Shadow. Triquarterly Magazine (Spring 2006).
Casting Off, and Reclaiming the Weberian Tradition: Comparative Law and Socio-Legal Studies. Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law (Mathias Reimann and Reinhard Zimmermann, eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Introducing Discipline: Anthropology and Human Rights Administrations (with Iris Jean-Klein). Political and Legal Anthropology Review vol. 28 no. 2 pp. 173-202.
"Failure as an Endpoint" (co-authored with Annelise Riles). In Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems. Aihwa Ong and Stephen J. Collier, eds. Pp. 320-331. Malden, M.A..
Real Time: Governing the Market After the Failure of Knowledge.31(3) American Ethnologist 1-14 (2004).
Property as Legal Knowledge: Means and Ends. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (December 2004).
The Means of Law (book manuscript, in progress).
The New Formalism (book manuscript, in progress).
Property as Instrument: Towards a Technical Anthropology, in Property in Question (C. Humphreys and K. Verdery, eds., forthcoming).
The Virtual Sociality of Rights: The Case of "Women's Rights are Human Rights," in Transnational Legal Process, Michael Likosky, ed., Blackwell Press (2002).
Rethinking the Masters of Comparative Law (Hart Publishing, 2001).
The Network Inside Out (University of Michigan Press, 2000).
"Division Within the Boundaries," 4 Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 3:409-424 (September 1998).
"Infinity Within the Brackets," 25 American Ethnologist 3:378-398 (August 1998).