安守廉（William P. Alford），哈佛大学法学院教授，哈佛大学东亚法律研究中心主任，中国法专家。1970年自Amherst College毕业，获学士学位，1972年自剑桥大学毕业，获得法学士学位，1974年和1975年在耶鲁大学获得关于中国研究和中国历史的 两个硕士学位，1977年自哈佛大学获得法学博士（JD）学位。编著有Prospects for Professionalism in China: Essays on Civic Vocations (William P. Alford, Kenneth Winston & William C. Kirby eds., Routledge forthcoming);Falu Baozhang Jizhi Yanjiu (A Study of Legal Mechanisms for the Protection of Persons with Disabilities) (Liming Wang, Yu'e Ma & William P. Alford eds., Huaxia Publishing House 2008); Raising the Bar: The Emerging Legal Profession in East Asia (William P. Alford ed., Harvard, East Asian Legal Studies 2007); Historical studies of Chinese law: a bibliography of materials in Chinese and Japanese (William P. Alford & Nongji Zhang eds., East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School 2003); A Bibliographical Survey of Malaysian Legal Materials (William P. Alford ed., East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School 2000); Alford, William P. To Steal a Book Is an Elegant Offense: Intellectual Property Law in Chinese Civilization (Stanford University Press 1995).