Annelise Riles
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Annelise Riles is a professor of law and anthropology at Cornell Law School
Cornell Law School
Cornell Law School, located in Ithaca, New York, is a graduate school of Cornell University and one of the five Ivy League law schools. The school confers three law degrees...

 and Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

 respectively. Riles specializes in comparative law
Comparative law
Comparative law is the study of differences and similarities between the law of different countries. More specifically, it involves study of the different legal systems in existence in the world, including the common law, the civil law, socialist law, Islamic law, Hindu law, and Chinese law...

 as seen through the lens of culture. Riles is the former editor of The Political and Legal Anthropology Review.

Riles is the director and founder of the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture.

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