Stanford Law School Professor Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, the Deane F. Johnson Professor of Law and a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, has been elected to the American Law Institute (ALI). Ouellette joins 26 other current Stanford Law faculty, including several who serve as Reporters, in advancing the ALI’s century-long mission to clarify, modernize, and improve the law.

The 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.

Ouellette is a nationally recognized expert in intellectual property and innovation policy. Drawing on her background in physics, she examines doctrinal questions in patent law, the implications of AI for patent practice, and how scientific expertise might strengthen patent examination. Her scholarship also explores the integration of intellectual property with other levers of innovation policy in contexts such as the opioid epidemic, vaccine development, and pharmaceutical pricing. She is the co-author of Patent Law: Cases, Problems, and Materials, a free casebook adopted at more than 75 law schools.

“I’m deeply grateful to be elected to the American Law Institute and excited to contribute to its mission,” said Ouellette, whose teaching spans patent law, intellectual property law, and innovation policy. “Stanford Law colleagues have long modeled thoughtful engagement with the ALI, and I look forward to following their example.”

“The election of new members is among the most important responsibilities of the Institute,” said ALI President David F. Lev in a press release. “This distinguished group once again brings the reach and experience needed to help the ALI address emerging legal challenges while continuing to pursue its mission of clarifying, simplifying, and reforming the law. As I welcome these new members, I do so with great confidence in the Institute’s future.”

Several Stanford Law faculty members are serving, or recently served, as Reporters on major ALI projects: Nora Freeman Engstrom, JD ’02, the Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law; David Freeman Engstrom, JD ’02, the LSVF Professor in Law and co-director of the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession; and Pamela Karlan, the Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law and co-director of the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic.

Professor Nora Freeman Engstrom’s Recent Restatement

Stanford Law Faculty at the ALI

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