April 27, 2011
by Annelise Riles
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Today the Cornell Law School organized a celebration of the publication of Collateral Knowledge. The event, attended by about 80 faculty and students from across the campus, featured presentations by Tom Baker, Deputy Dean and William Maul Measey Professor of … Continue reading
April 21, 2011
by Annelise Riles
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Earlier this month, Stephen Lubben at Dealbook posted an interesting piece querying whether there may be hidden costs associated with giving banks huge breaks in their capitalization requirements under Basel III for close-out netting, the clause in the ISDA master … Continue reading
February 22, 2011
by Annelise Riles
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The scandal pages coming out of Hong Kong this month are full of intrigue about disputes among family members and various other possible “significant others” over the estate of tycoon Stanley Ho. The Financial Times’ story on all this basically … Continue reading
February 9, 2011
by Annelise Riles
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It’s the Chinese New Year, and the financial press has been full of stories of massive Chinese purchases of gold (for instance here and here), as gold (molded into rabbits to signify that it was given in the year of … Continue reading
January 21, 2011
by Annelise Riles
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We’re now in the final countdown towards publication of my forthcoming book, Collateral Knowledge: Legal Reasoning in the Global Financial Markets. My publisher just unveiled the cover and I am really honored to have three people whose work I respect … Continue reading
January 7, 2011
by Annelise Riles
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(This entry was originally posted on Jan. 7, 2011 on the Credit Slips website) I was scheduled to speak at the AALS Financial Institutions breakfast this morning, but due to flight cancellations I was unfortunately unable to attend. I’m posting … Continue reading
January 5, 2011
by Annelise Riles
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(This entry was originally posted on Jan. 5, 2011 on the Credit Slips website) In the wake of the Wikileaks debacle, we have started to see some conversation in the editorial pages about whether transparency is always a good thing … Continue reading
January 4, 2011
by Annelise Riles
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(This entry was originally posted on Jan. 4, 2011 on the Credit Slips website) Elizabeth Warren has proposed, as one of her first initiatives, that banks should simplify their standardized credit card contracts with customers to insure that customers understand … Continue reading
January 3, 2011
by Annelise Riles
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(This entry was originally posted on Jan. 3, 2011 on the Credit Slips website. I want to thank again Bob Lawless and Adam Levitin for inviting me to guest-blog daily on Credit Slips during the first week of January) This … Continue reading
November 21, 2010
by Annelise Riles
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Yesterday at the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting I went to hear Gillian Tett, a journalist for the Financial Times, talk about how her own training in anthropology (like me, she holds a doctorate from Cambridge) had shaped her reporting … Continue reading