University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law Professor Erika George was elected as a new member of the American Law Institute.
The Institute’s mission is “to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to encourage and carry on scholarly and scientific legal work.” It achieves this goal through the development of Institute projects, which are categorized as Restatements, Codes, or Principles.