Annelise Riles
Professor of Law
Associate Provost for Global Affairs
Executive Director of the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Studies
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Related Links
Buffett Institute for Global Studies Profile
Assistant
Jane Brock
Assistant Phone
(312) 503-8544
Assistant Email
janebrock@law.northwestern.edu
Biography
Annelise Riles is the Executive Director of the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Studies at Northwestern University, enhancing Northwestern’s reputation for cutting-edge, interdisciplinary programs and research on globally relevant topics. Riles will also be the Associate Provost for Global Affairs and a professor of law and anthropology.
Her scholarship spans a wide range of substantive areas including human rights, managing and accommodating cultural differences, and the regulation of the global financial markets.
Key areas in legal studies include comparative law, the conflict of laws, financial regulation, socio-legal studies and international law. In anthropology, her work is known for its methodological contributions as well as for its contributions to the study of international institutions and expertise.
Areas of Expertise
- International Human Rights
- Conflicts of Law
- International Law
- Feminist Legal Theory
- Global Financial Regulation
- Legal Anthropology
Courses
Selected Publications
- Collateral Knowledge: Legal Reasoning in the Global Financial Markets (2011).
- The Network Inside Out (2000).
- Financial Citizenship: Experts, Publics & the Politics of Central Banking (2018).
- From Multiculturalism to Technique: Feminism, Culture, and the Conflict of Laws Style, 64 Stanford Law Review 589 (2012) (with Karen Knop & Ralf Michaels).
- Space, Time and Historical Injustice: A Feminist Conflict-of-Laws Approach to the “Comfort Women” Settlement, 102 Cornell Law Review 853 (2017) (with Karen Knop).
- Managing Regulatory Arbitrage: A Conflict of Laws Approach, 47 Cornell International Law Journal 63 (2014).
Education
- AB, Princeton University
- MSc, London School of Economics and Political Science
- JD, Harvard Law School
- PhD, University of Cambridge
Prior Appointments
- Jack G. Clarke ’52 Professor of Far East Legal Studies, Cornell University
- Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University
- Professor, Cornell University School of Law
- Professor, Northwestern University School of Law
- Assistant Professor, Northwestern University School of Law
- Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation
- Affiliated Faculty Member, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University
- Lecturer, Department of History and Politics, University of the South Pacific