Matthew S. 

ERIE

Matthew S. Erie (J.D., Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor, Member of the Law Faculty, and Associate Research Fellow of the Socio-Legal Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. Professor Erie is trained in both law and anthropology and studies comparative Asian law. He has written on Chinese law, Islamic law, and comparative international law. His current research project, “China, Law and Development,” funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant (€1.5 million), examines China’s approach to law in its global development. He is currently working on a book project entitled China’s Empire of Law which grows out of this project. Professor Erie previously held academic positions at Princeton University and NYU Law School, and he was a visiting scholar at the National University Singapore Law Faculty and a Global Hauser Fellow at NYU Law School. He practiced law in the New York and Beijing offices of Paul Hastings LLP where he focused on corporate real estate transactions and white-collar investigations (e.g., FCPA).