Matthew Erie

Matthew S. Erie is an Associate Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law and an Associate Member of the Oxford Law Faculty, whose interdisciplinary and comparative scholarship examines “non-liberal law” and its interactions with liberal legal systems across domestic, international, and transnational contexts. Drawing on historical, ethnographic, and socio-legal methods, his work explores law’s role in global disorder and re-ordering, with particular attention to ideology, politics, and legal intersections such as conflict of laws and legal infrastructure, comparing Anglo-American and Asian legal systems. He is the author of China and Islam: The Prophet, the Party, and Law (CUP 2016) and the principal investigator of the ERC-funded “China, Law and Development” project, which generated multiple edited volumes and special issues on Chinese law, development, and global legal order. In addition to extensive academic publishing and public engagement, he has practiced law in New York and Beijing and holds degrees from Dartmouth, Penn, Tsinghua, and Cornell.