Biography
Teemu Ruskola is Professor of Law and Professor of East Asian Languages & Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania as well as a faculty a member in the Program in Comparative Literature & Literary Theory and the Program in Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies. Prior to joining Penn, he was the Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law at Emory University. He is the author of The Unmaking of the Chinese Working Class: The Global Limits of Capitalism (forthcoming by Verso Books, 2026) and Legal Orientalism: China, the United States, and Modern Law (Harvard University Press, 2013). He is also co-author of Schlesinger’s Comparative Law (Foundation Press, 2009) as well as co-editor of a special issue of the journal Social Text on “China and the Human.” His scholarship addresses questions of legal history and theory from multiple perspectives, comparative as well as international, frequently with China as a vantage point.
