NYU Law Pierrepont Family Professor of Law Robert J. Jackson, Jr. and alumnae Davina Te-Min Chen ’98 and Alexis Hoag ’08 are among the 59 new members elected to the American Law Institute (ALI), the organization announced on December 20. Founded in 1923, ALI produces scholarly work designed to clarify, modernize, and improve the law through Restatements, Principles, and Model Codes.
Jackson is the Pierrepont Family Professor of Law, co-director of the Institute for Corporate Governance and Finance, and director of the Program on Corporate Law and Policy at NYU Law. He served as a commissioner of the US Securities and Exchange Commission from 2017 until 2020, when he rejoined the NYU Law faculty. Previously, Jackson taught at Columbia Law School, where he received the Reese Prize for Excellence in Teaching, and served as a senior policy advisor at the US Treasury Department and as deputy to Kenneth Feinberg ’70, Treasury’s special master on executive compensation. He currently teaches Corporations and Corporate Finance and Investment Banking, among other courses.
Chen is national sentencing resource counsel for the Federal Public & Community Defenders. Previously, she practiced federal criminal defense as a trial attorney and then an appellate attorney at the Office of the Federal Public Defender in the Central District of California and as a sole practitioner.
Hoag joined the Brooklyn Law faculty as an assistant professor in 2021. She teaches and writes about criminal law and procedure, evidence, and carceral abolition. Her recent scholarship examines how policies, doctrines, and practices within the criminal legal system erode constitutional rights and perpetuate racial subordination.
Posted January 20, 2022