Professor Nicole Stelle Garnett elected to American Law Institute
Notre Dame Law School Professor Nicole Stelle Garnett was recently elected to be a member of the American Law Institute.
Garnett is the John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law and associate dean for external engagement. Her teaching and research focus on education law and policy, religious liberty, and topics related to property law–especially land use and urban development policies. She has published extensively on these subjects and is the author of two books, “Lost Classroom, Lost Community: Catholic Schools' Importance in Urban America” and “Ordering the City: Land Use, Policing and the Restoration of Urban America.”
She serves as the director of the Notre Dame Education Law Project and is a faculty fellow at the Institute for Educational Initiatives, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Fitzgerald Institute for Real Estate, and the deNicola Center for Ethics and Culture. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
Before joining the Law School faculty in 1999, Garnett worked as a staff attorney at the Institute for Justice, a non-profit public-interest law firm in Washington, D.C., where she helped to defend the constitutionality of the nation's first private-school-choice programs. She also clerked for the Honorable Morris S. Arnold of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and for Associate Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court.
"I'm incredibly honored by my election to the American Law Institute. I look forward to working together with my fellow ALI members to address needed legal reforms and advance the common good,” said Garnett.
The American Law Institute is the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work 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 the courts and legislatures, as well as in legal scholarship and education. By participating in the Institute’s work, its distinguished members have the opportunity to influence the development of the law in both existing and emerging areas, to work with other eminent lawyers, judges, and academics, to support the rule of law and the legal system, and to contribute to the public good.