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Cornell Law School
Cornell University Library
Annelise Riles 
Jack G. Clarke Chair in Far East Legal Studies and Professor of Anthropology
Working Papers
"From Multiculturalism to Technique: Feminism, Culture and the Conflict of Laws Style", 64 Stanford Law Review (2012);  Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-30 (2011).
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Books

Documents: Artifacts of Modern Knowledge (editor) (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2006).

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Contributions to Books
"Placeholders: Engaging the Hayekian Critique of Financial Regulation," in Collateral Knowledge: Legal Reasoning in the Global Financial Markets chapter 5 (Annelise Riles, ed., forthcoming, 2010).
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"Is the Law Hopeful?," in Hope in the Economy (H. Miyazaki and R. Swedberg eds., forthcoming, 2010).
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"And Never the Twain Shall Meet? An Exchange on the Strengths and Weaknesses of Anthropology and Economics in Analyzing the Commons" (with Ravi Kanbur), in The Contested Commons: Conversations Between Anthropologists and Economists, (Blackwell Press, Pranab Bardhan and Isha Ray, eds. 2008). p266-79

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"Introduction," in Documents: Artifacts of Modern Knowledge (A. Riles, ed.) (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2006).
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"Knowledge About Law", Entry in the International Encyclopedia of Law and Society 885-888 (Davis S. Clark, ed. 2007).
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Articles
"Collateral Expertise: Legal Knowledge in the Global Financial Markets," 51 Current Anthropology 795-818 (2010).
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"International Law in Domestic Courts: A Conflict of Laws Approach" (with K. Knop and R. Michaels) 103 American Society of International Law Proceedings (2009).
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"Reforming Knowledge? A Socio-Legal Critique of the Legal Education Reforms in Japan" (with Takashi Uchida), 1 Drexel Law Review 3 (2009).
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"The Anti-Network: Global Private Law, Legal Knowledge, and the Legitimacy of the State," 56 American Journal of Comparative Law 605 (2008).
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Forward: in Transdisciplinary Conflict of Laws (with K. Knop and R. Michaels) 71(3) Law & Contemporary Problems 1 (2008).
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"Cultural Conflicts," in Transdisciplinary Conflict of Laws 71(3) Law & Contemporary Problems 273 (2008).
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"Anthropology, Human Rights, and Legal Knowledge: Culture in the Iron Cage," in 15 Finnish Yearbook of International Law 9-38 (2006); 108 (1) American Anthropologist 52-65 (2006).
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"A New Agenda for the Cultural Study of Law:  Taking on the Technicalities," 53 Buffalo Law Review 973-1033 (2005).
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"Introducing Discipline: Anthropology and Human Rights Administrations" (with Iris Jean-Klein), Introduction to "Anthropology and Human Rights Administrations: Expert Observation and Representation After the Fact," 28 (2) Political and Legal Anthropology Review 173-202 (2005).
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"Property as Legal Knowledge: Means and Ends,"  10 Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.)  775-795 (2004).
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"Introduction to Ethnography in the Realm of the Pragmatic: Study in Pragmatism in Law and Politics," 26(2) Anthropology Review 1-7 (2003).
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"Preface," 36 Cornell International Law Journal 134 (2003).
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"User-Friendly: Informality and Expertise," Law and Social Inquiry 613-19 (2002).
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"Wigmore's Treasure Box: Comparative Law in the Era of Information," 40 Harvard International Law Journal 221-83 (1999).
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"Models and Documents: Notes on Some Artifacts of International Legal Knowledge," 48 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 805-26 (1999).
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"Representing In-Between: Law, Anthropology, and the Rhetoric of Interdisciplinarity," 1994 University of Illinois Law Review 597- 653 (1994).
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"Aspiration and Control: International Legal Rhetoric and the Essentialization of Culture," 106 Harvard Law Review 723- 40 (1993).
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Book Reviews
"The Stories of Law,"105 Harvard Law Review 779-84 (1991)(Review of Patricia J. Williams, The Alchemy of Race and Rights).
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Review of Making All the Difference: Inclusion, Exclusion and American Law, 14 Harvard Women's Law Journal 247-54 (1991).
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