Rose Chan Loui, who serves as the founding executive director of the Lowell Milken Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofits at UCLA School of Law, has been elected to the membership of the American Law Institute, among the most prestigious positions for legal academics and professionals.

The ALI is the “leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law.” Its wide array of projects and publications include restatements of the law and other heavily researched compendia “that are enormously influential in the courts and legislatures, as well as in legal scholarship and education.”

Chan Loui looks forward to working with the members’ consultative group of ALI’s artificial intelligence project. 

She is an expert on tax-exempt organizations, with a history of working with nonprofit organizations to structure and implement their advocacy and lobbying programs, as well as representing nonprofits, businesses, and individuals in federal and state tax controversy matters. A significant amount of her recent work has been about OpenAI. She also serves as the interim board chair of the Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles, as the board chair of East Players, and on the board of The Chronicle of Philanthropy.

She is the 19th ALI member who is currently on the UCLA Law faculty.

Chan Loui came to UCLA Law in 2022 from Rodriguez, Horii, Choi & Cafferata, one of the country’s leading boutique law firms serving nonprofits. She previously held positions as an attorney at Latham & Watkins, ARCO, and Deloitte & Touche. She earned her B.A. from Stanford University and her J.D. from NYU School of Law.