The American Law Institute (ALI) has elected Natalie Ram, JD, as a new member who will bring her scholarship to ALI’s work of clarifying the law through restatements, principles, and model codes.

Natalie Ram, JD, bottom left, is a newly elected member of the American Law Institute.

Ram is a professor at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, where she is a leading expert on the intersection of genetic privacy and the law. Her work has been published in law reviews and scientific journals, including Harvard Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Texas Law Review, Science, and Nature Biotechnology. Ram also has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Slate and interviewed on National Public Radio’s Science Friday, Here & Now, and Reveal. She teaches courses in Maryland Carey Law’s Law and Health Care program. Ram was a 2021 Greenwall Faculty Scholar in Bioethics.

“As 2022 comes to a close, I am pleased to welcome our final group of new ALI members,” said ALI President David F. Levi. “In 2023, ALI will celebrate its 100th anniversary. We are moving into our second century at a time when the United States is divided on many issues and many Americans are skeptical of all institutions, including our courts and legal system.

“This makes our work all the more important, and our new members are essential to that work. It is only through the efforts of our talented, diverse, and dedicated membership body that we may continue our work protecting and preserving the rule of law. I look forward to our new members joining us in our mission as we look ahead to our second century.”

Ram joins a cohort of 30 legal experts from across the nation selected for ALI membership. ALI is the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law.