November 02, 2009
Professor Cheryl L. Wade, the
Harold F. McNiece Professor of Law at St. John’s University School
of Law has been elected to 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
Institute (made up of 4,200 lawyers, judges, and law professors of
the highest qualifications) drafts, discusses, revises, and
publishes Restatements of the Law, model statutes, and principles
of law that are enormously influential in the courts and
legislatures, as well as in legal scholarship and
education.
Professor Wade joins several current and recently retired St.
John’s colleagues who are also members of the ALI, including
Professor Patrick J. Rohan, Professor Margaret N. Kniffin,
Professor Rosemary C. Salomone, Professor Robert M. Zinman, and
Professor David L. Gregory.
Professor Wade is an accomplished scholar and teacher. Her
research focuses on securities, corporate, and education
law. Her courses include Law and Race, Business Organizations,
Corporate Governance and Accountability, Torts and Close Business
Arrangements. More information about Professor Wade is
available
here.