Annelise Riles is an interdisciplinary anthropologist and legal scholar. She is the executive director of the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs at

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, contributing to Northwestern's interdisciplinary programs and research on globally relevant topics. Riles is also the associate provost for global affairs and a professor of law and anthropology. Riles is also the founder and director of Meridian-180, a multilingual forum for transformative leadership. Its global membership of 800+ thought leaders in academia, government and business work together to generate ideas and guidance.

Education and career

Riles received an AB degree from

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in 1988. She received an MSc degree from

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in 1990 after she received the

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. She received a JD degree from

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in 1993, and a PhD from

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in 1996. She was associated with the

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, in 1996-97 as a postdoctoral fellow, and from 1997 to 2002 as a research fellow. She also was a lecturer at the

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in 1995. She was associated with

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beginning in 2001, as a visiting professor. In 2002 she became a professor of the Law School and the Department of Anthropology, and director of the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture. In 2007 she became the Jack G. Clarke '52 Professor of Far Eastern Legal Studies.
Northwestern University website, official Annelise Riles biography, accessed 07 May 2014

Books

*Financial Citizenship: Experts, Publics & The Politics of Central Banking (Cornell University, 2018) *The Network Inside Out (University of Michigan Press, 2000)(awarded the 2000-2001 Certificate of Merit by the

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) *Rethinking the Masters of Comparative Law (ed.)(Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2001) *Documents: Artifacts of Modern Knowledge (ed.)(University of Michigan Press, 2006) *Collateral Knowledge: Legal Reasoning in the Global Financial Markets (University of Chicago Press, 2011) *Retooling: Professionalism for the Future (with Hiro Miyazaki and Yuji Genda)(NTT Press, 2014)

References

Collateral Knowledge
Professor Riles' blog
Papers
by Professor Riles in

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Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture
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