Professor Andrew Gold Elected to Membership in American Law Institute

Professor Andrew Gold, an expert in private law theory, fiduciary law, and the law of corporations, and associate director of the Center for the Study of Business Law and Regulation, has been elected to membership in the American Law Institute (ALI), the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law.

The Institute—composed of 2,900 lawyers, judges, and law professors from across the United States and around the world—drafts, discusses, revises, and publishes Restatements of the Law, model statutes, and principles of law that are influential in the courts and legislatures, as well as in legal scholarship and education. ALI membership is gained only through election by existing ALI members and is limited to 3,000 individuals (excluding life, honorary, and ex-officio members).

“It is a great honor to be joining the ALI, and I am excited to become involved in the great work it does to improve the law,” said Gold. “I hope to contribute as much as I can in my areas of expertise.”

Gold’s primary research interests address private law theory, fiduciary law, and the law of corporations, and he is widely published in these areas. He is also co-editor of multiple books on fiduciary theory, including Contract, Status, and Fiduciary Law (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Philosophical Foundations of Fiduciary Law (Oxford University Press, 2014). He is currently co-editing several additional volumes, including: Fiduciary Government (Cambridge University Press, 2018), and The Oxford Handbook of New Private Law (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), and is writing a monograph, The Right of Redress (Oxford University Press, 2020). Gold previously was the Bruce W. Nichols Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School; an HLA Hart Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford; and a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair at McGill University. He is a co-founder of the North American Workshop on Private Law Theory.

Other ALI members from the Law School faculty include Dean Michael T. Cahill; Professors William D. Araiza, Miriam H. Baer, Anita Bernstein, Dana Brakman Reiser, I. Bennett Capers, Neil B. Cohen, James A. Fanto, Edward J. Janger, Beryl R. Jones-Woodin, Roberta S. Karmel, Brian A. Lee, Samuel K. Murumba, David Reiss, Alice Ristroph, Elizabeth M. Schneider, Winnie F. Taylor, and Aaron D. Twerski; Marsha Garrison, 1901 Distinguished Research Professor; Professors Emeriti William E. Hellerstein and Norman S. Poser; and Joan G. Wexler, dean and president emerita.