Tim Bartley is Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis. His 2018 book, Rules without Rights: Land, Labor, and Private Authority in the Global Economy (Oxford University Press), received the Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for Environmental Studies from the International Studies Association. The book compares the implementation of sustainable forestry and fair labor standards in Indonesia and China and develops a new theory of transnational private regulation. He has published articles in the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Annual Review of Sociology, and a number of other journals. Bartley received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 2003 and then worked at Indiana University as an Assistant Professor (2003-2009) and Associate Professor (2009-2012) of Sociology. He was then Associate Professor of Sociology at Ohio State University (2012-2017) before moving to Washington University in St. Louis in 2017. He has also been a visiting scholar at Princeton, MIT, Sun Yat-sen University, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, University of Paris-Dauphine, and the University of Konstanz.