UCLA School of Law Professor Andrew Verstein 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.”

UCLA School of Law is pleased to welcome to its tenured or tenure-track faculty six leading scholars whose innovative research explores issues involving technology, business law, higher education, taxation and other areas on the cutting edge of legal scholarship.

Meirav Furth-Matzkin, whose cutting-edge scholarship focuses on the intersection of contract law, consumer protection and regulation, and behavioral law and economics, has joined UCLA Law as an assistant professor of law.

She comes from the University of Chicago Law School, where she served as the John M. Olin Law and Economics Fellow and as a lecturer in law.

Fernán Restrepo, who focuses his research on corporate law in the context of financial and non-financial companies, has joined UCLA School of Law as an assistant professor of law.

He comes from Stanford University, where he was most recently a research fellow with the Rock Center for Corporate Governance.