Browne Lewis, the Leon and Gloria Plevin Professor of Law, has been elected to membership in the American Law Institute (ALI).  The ALI is the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law.  The ALI drafts and publishes Restatements of the Law, Model Codes, and Principles of Law, which are extremely influential in the courts and legislatures, as well as in legal scholarship and education.  ALI members are elected on the basis of professional achievement and demonstrated interest in improving the law.