Professor Elected to American Law Institute
35 UVA Law Faculty Members Now Affiliated
Professor Josh Bowers of the University of Virginia School of Law has been elected a member of the American Law Institute, the organization announced Tuesday.
There are now 35 members of the UVA Law faculty currently affiliated with the institute, which produces scholarly work meant to update or otherwise improve the law. The organization includes judges, lawyers and law professors from the U.S. and around the world who are “selected on the basis of professional achievement and demonstrated interest in improving the law,” according to the institute’s website.
Bowers, who joined the faculty in 2008, is the Class of 1963 Research Professor of Law in honor of Graham C. Lilly and Peter W. Low. Bowers’ primary teaching and research interests are in the areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, legal theory and constitutional law.
Bowers has written numerous articles, essays and book chapters on police and prosecutorial discretion, plea bargaining, misdemeanor enforcement and adjudication, drug courts, drug policy reform, life without parole, capital punishment, grand juries, pretrial release and the right to counsel. His work has been published in several books and journals, including the Columbia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, the UCLA Law Review and the Stanford Law Review.
Bowers is a member of the Virginia Criminal Justice Conference. Additionally, he was the lead reporter for the Uniform Law Commission’s “Alternatives to Bail” Committee, and he served as a founding member of the Civilian Review Board for the city of Charlottesville, which engages in oversight of the Charlottesville Police Department.
He earned his J.D. from New York University School of Law and his bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin.
Members were selected from confidential nominations submitted by ALI members. ALI formed in 1923 “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.”
UVA Law Faculty Members of the American Law Institute
Elected Members
- Aditya Bamzai
- Richard Bonnie ’69 (emeritus)
- Josh Bowers
- Naomi Cahn
- Danielle Citron
- Ashley Deeks
- Michael Doran
- John Duffy
- Kim Forde-Mazrui
- Risa Goluboff
- Rachel Harmon
- Deborah Hellman
- Alex M. Johnson Jr.
- Leslie Kendrick ’06
- Julia Mahoney
- Ruth Mason
- Caleb E. Nelson
- Saikrishna Prakash
- Kimberly Jenkins Robinson
- Mildred W. Robinson (emerita)
- Bertrall Ross
- Elizabeth A. Rowe
- Richard Schragger
- Micah Schwartzman ’05
- Pierre-Hugues Verdier
Life Members
- Kenneth S. Abraham
- Stanley D. Henderson (emeritus)
- John C. Jeffries Jr. ’73
- Edmund W. Kitch
- Douglas Laycock (emeritus)
- Peter Low ’63 (emeritus)
- John Norton Moore (emeritus)
- Kent Sinclair (emeritus)
- Paul B. Stephan ’77
- G. Edward White
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