Boyd Law's Ruben Garcia elected member of American Law Institute (ALI)
Professor Ruben J. Garcia has been elected as a member of the American Law Institute (ALI). Garcia, also the Co-Director of Boyd’s Workplace Law Program, joins 32 other new members of the ALI this month.
“We are truly fortunate to have Professor Garcia as a member of our faculty,” said Leah Chan Grinvald, Dean of the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV, Richard J. Morgan Professor of Law, and a member of the ALI. “He brings unsurpassed expertise, scholarship, passion for teaching and service to the community through his leadership. His work has had true impact on the field of labor, employment and constitutional law.”
The ALI is the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize and improve the law. The ALI drafts, discusses, revises and publishes Restatements of the Law, Model Codes and Principles of Law that are enormously influential in the courts and legislatures, as well as in legal scholarship and education.
Professor Garcia holds degrees from Stanford University, UCLA School of Law, and the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he was a William H. Hastie Fellow. He has been on the faculty at Boyd since 2011, after eight years as Professor of Law and Director of the Labor and Employment Law Program at California Western School of Law. He served as Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research at Boyd from 2017 to 2019. He has held visiting appointments at UC-Davis School of Law, UC-San Diego, and Brooklyn Law School. In 2019, he was elected as a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, in recognition of his more than 20 years as a lawyer, teacher and scholar of workplace law.
A leader in working toward the improvement of legal education, Garcia has served on several law school site inspection committees of the American Bar Association (ABA) and the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), chairing two such site visit committees. He was appointed by AALS President Erwin Chemerinsky to the Association’s Membership Review Committee. ABA President Deborah Enix-Ross recently appointed him to the Council for Diversity in the Educational Pipeline. From 2014 to 2016, he served as Co-President of the Society of American Law Teachers. He also serves on the national board of the American Constitution Society.
Professor Garcia’s research and teaching is focused on Labor Law, Employment Law, and Constitutional Law. He has authored important articles in the Hastings Law Journal, the Florida State University Law Review, the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review and the Florida Law Review, among other student-edited and peer-reviewed publications. His books and chapters include Legal Protection for the Individual Employee (West Academic, 6th ed. with Dau-Schmidt, Finkin & Bent), Marginal Workers: How Legal Fault Lines Divide Workers and Leave Them Without Protection (NYU Press, 2012) and the forthcoming Critical Wage Theory: Wage Justice as Racial Justice (UC Press).
According to an ALI press release, “It is the collective membership that allows us to produce work that is seldom matched. I have no doubt that this impressive group of newly elected members will help ensure that the Institute’s work remains a reliable resource to the legal community,” said ALI President David F. Levi.
Other Boyd Law faculty elected to the ALI include Christopher L. Blakesley (Emeritus), Leslie C. Griffin, Leah Chan Grinvald, Francine J. Lipman, Thomas O. Main, Nancy B. Rapoport, Keith A. Rowley, Jeffrey W. Stempel, Marketa Trimble and John Valery White.