Annelise Riles
Professor of Law and Professor of Anthropology
Annelise Riles is Professor of Law and Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University. She has conducted research in China, Japan, and the Pacific. Her work focuses on the transnational dimensions of legal theories and institutions. Her first book, The Network Inside Out, won the American Society of International Law's Certificate of Merit for 2000-2002. Her second book, Rethinking the Masters of Comparative Law, is a cultural history of Comparative Law presented through its canonical figures. A forthcoming edited collection, Documents: Artifacts of Modern Knowledge, brings together lawyers, anthropologists, sociologists and historians of science. Another forthcoming book, Collateral Knowledge, is based on anthropological fieldwork among financial regulators in Tokyo and New York about the cultural practices of lawyers, and their effect on the transnational practice of law. Professor Riles was recently featured in the Cornell Chronicle.
Leslie K. Danks Burke
Executive Director, Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture
J.D., University of Chicago (2002); B.A., University of Colorado at Boulder (1997).
Prior to joining Cornell in 2007, Ms. Danks Burke practiced domestic and international litigation with Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP, in New York City. Fluent in German, and conversant in Spanish and French, Ms. Danks Burke also has lived in Costa Rica, where she worked for a sustainable development NGO, and in Washington, D.C., where she consulted on domestic and international tax legislation for Deloitte & Touche, LLP. At the University of Chicago Law School, Ms. Danks Burke participated in a civil rights clinic and the Chicago Journal of International Law. Her undergraduate education was in German and Chinese history.
Yuri Obata
Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture Fellow 2007-2008
Professor Obata is an assistant professor in mass communication track at Indiana University South Bend.
She received a Ph.D. in Communication from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at University of Colorado at Boulder. Her research area is free speech in Japan, focusing on obscenity and sexually oriented expression. Her approach is to apply mass media as a window to understand society's culture, i.e., values and beliefs, and to examine law, or a judicial system as a cultural practice which derived from society's past experience.
Professor Obata has taught courses on mass communication theories, international mass media, media law, and history of pornography. During her residency at Cornell Law School as a Clarke Fellow, she plans to finish a few articles for her dissertation, as well as develop chapters more in-depth in order to write a book proposal.
Professor Zhiyuan Cui
Visiting Professor, Spring 2007
Tsinghua University
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Professor, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University since 2004; Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin from 2003-04; Senior Visiting Fellow of Harvard Law School from 2003; Visiting Fellow, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore from 2001-03; Assistant Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1995-01; Instructor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1993-95. Professor Cui received a PhD and M .A. degrees at the University of Chicago (Political Science) and B.Sc. at the National University of Defense Technology, China (Math). Professor Cui will teach Chinese Legal Systems and a seminar Confronting Law and Economics in spring 2007.
