Stanford Law School (SLS) Professor Mila Sohoni, the John A. Wilson Distinguished Faculty Scholar, was recently elected to the American Law Institute (ALI). As one of 22 new members of the 101-year old organization, Sohoni will join the ALI in its mission to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law.

The ALI drafts, discusses, revises, and publishes Restatements of the Law, Model Codes, and Principles of Law that are influential in the courts and legislatures, as well as in legal scholarship and education.

Sohoni, who joined the SLS faculty in June 2024, researches and writes in the areas of  civil procedure, administrative law, federal courts, and legislation. 

“I am honored to join the American Law Institute and contribute to its work,” Sohoni said. “The ALI has long played a vital role in spurring important legal reforms, and I’m excited to be part of that effort.”

In 2022, Sohoni was appointed a Public Member of the Administrative Conference of the United States. She previously served as the Chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Administrative Law, and she is a contributor to the Administrative Law section of the online legal journal Jotwell.

Her scholarship has appeared in many leading law journals, including the Yale Law Journal, the Harvard Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and the Duke Law Journal. In her previous role as a law professor at the University of San Diego School of Law, she received several awards for her teaching and scholarship.

After graduating cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she served as book reviews chair and an articles committee member for the Harvard Law Review, Sohoni served as a law clerk to the Honorable Judith W. Rogers of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. 

Before attending law school, Sohoni spent two years as a science and technology correspondent for The Economist in New York and in London. She was a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar at Cambridge University, where she received her MPhil with distinction (first class) in the history and philosophy of science. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a degree in chemistry.

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