Stanford Law School Professor Easha Anand, co-director of the law school’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, has been elected to the American Law Institute (ALI). Anand joins 27 other current or emeriti Stanford Law faculty, including several who serve as Reporters, in advancing the ALI’s century-long mission to clarify, modernize, and improve the law.

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

As a director of Stanford Law School’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, Anand represents employees, noncitizens, consumers, unions, criminal defendants, and civil rights plaintiffs before the nation’s high court. Her recent victories include cases brought on behalf of a long-distance truck driver deceived into purchasing a product containing a federally controlled substance; a jeweler jailed after police fabricated evidence against him; and a whistleblower fired for reporting securities-law violations, who prevailed in a unanimous decision.

Anand is a sought-after expert on Supreme Court practice and procedure, civil rights, and prisoners’ rights. She is a frequent speaker at judicial conferences and consults on legislation, litigation, and scholarship in those areas.

“ALI has played an extraordinary role in shaping American law by bringing together judges, practitioners, and scholars to work through difficult legal questions with rigor and care,” Anand said. “I’m honored to join that community, including many Stanford Law colleagues, and look forward to contributing to its work.”

“The election of new members is among the most important responsibilities of the Institute because it renews and strengthens the exchange of ideas that makes our work possible,” said ALI President Wallace B. Jefferson in ALI’s press release. “As I welcome my first class of new members as President, I do so with optimism and appreciation for the perspectives they will bring to the Institute. I look forward to seeing the meaningful ways these distinguished lawyers, judges, and scholars will contribute to the Institute’s projects, ensuring that ALI continues to serve the legal profession and the public.”

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